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Stephen Strader @stephenmstrader.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal... Yes, especially in Louisiana...

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Stephen Strader @stephenmstrader.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Why chase storm when storm chase you?

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Stephen Strader @stephenmstrader.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

The comments in this are so good... I have now been accused of weather control and a large number of at-home meteorologists knew about this issue years ago. So many experts out there! Who knew? It is always the Dunning-Kruger effect. Always.

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Stephen Strader @stephenmstrader.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Trying to teach my students about being empathetic and professional is kind of hard when POTUS is out here saying, "whole civilization will die tonight" and "open the f*cking strait" on social media. We hold 5 yr olds to higher standards. Anyway, time to go teach like none of this is happening.

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Stephen Strader @stephenmstrader.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I did another thing... A 1988 Martin D16 A (Ash). Martin only made 818 of these. The Ash back and sides are brighter and more of a "glassy" voicing compared to the more common D18 (Mahogany) and D28 (Rosewood). Given emerald ash borer issues nowadays, I had to snag one of these from my birth year.

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Stephen Strader @stephenmstrader.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Colloquium today Joy Pochatila National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) Coordinator, US Geological Survey

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Stephen Strader @stephenmstrader.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

New Paper Alert. 3 former undergraduate students and I worked on this. We created indices that allow us to determine where tropical cyclone disasters are most likely to occur... Hint: It's not just coastal counties. Inland flooding is a major driver of #disaster! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Geospatial assessment of United States tropical cyclone disaster risk - Natural Hazards

Natural Hazards - This study provides an overview of tropical cyclone (TC) hazard risk, population exposure, societal vulnerability, and community resilience for conterminous United States (CONUS)...

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Scott Robeson @indianaclimate.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Really good new study. As expected, tropical cyclone (TC) impacts are high for Atlantic and Gulf Coast counties due to high TC hazard + population exposure, but also for many *inland* counties in the SE and NE due to flash flooding from TCs + vulnerable communities.

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Geospatial assessment of United States tropical cyclone disaster risk - Natural Hazards

Natural Hazards - This study provides an overview of tropical cyclone (TC) hazard risk, population exposure, societal vulnerability, and community resilience for conterminous United States (CONUS)...

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Stephen Aguilar @stephenaguilar.com · 11/09/2025

Aw man I wish academics had headlines like this. “Stephen Aguilar (existential dread) is not expected to write today, per @mpolikoff.bsky.social”

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Stephen Strader @stephenmstrader.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Here is a photo of my dog. That is all.

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Stephen Strader @stephenmstrader.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Picked up one of these 1990s indiglo expeditions because I had one when ai was a kid. Loved it. Your newer one looks great with that band!

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Stephen Strader @stephenmstrader.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

I guess my dog decided to become an Eagles fan. As a Bills fan, I don't know how I feel about this. I guess, go birds.

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Stephen Strader @stephenmstrader.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Aka proactive mitigation and adaptation. But like convincing strangers to give you 20.00 today with promises they will get 2,000.00 in 10 years. Not an easy thing to get people to do, especially now in this political and cultural hellscape. Dumped on us by uncompassionate, evil, greedy hypocrites.

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Kim Wood @drkimwood.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Twenty years ago today, Hurricane Katrina (2005) made landfall in Louisiana. Four years ago today, Hurricane Ida (2021) made landfall in Louisiana. This animation shows Katrina on the left and Ida on the right over the same 24-hour period using NOAA Merged IR (left) and NOAA ABI Band 13 (right).

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NPR @npr.org · 29/08/2025

Hurricane Katrina resulted in nearly 1,400 deaths, according to revised statistics from the National Hurricane Center, and remains the costliest storm in U.S. history at around $200 billion in today's dollars.

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From devastation to determination: Hurricane Katrina's legacy in pictures

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Stephen Strader @stephenmstrader.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

20 yrs ago. Since then, disaster counts, costs, vulnerability have risen. Disasters are a product of society, and are caused by extreme events interacting with societal vulnerabilities through multifaceted human decision-making processes. We are not ready for the next one... #Katrina #NewOrleans

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Andrew Rumbach @andrewrumbach.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

When we think of disasters in the Gulf we often think of places like New Orleans and Houston...but the data shows how per-capita damages are often worst in smaller places like Refugio County, Texas ($92k damage per capita from 2005-2024) or Harrison County, Mississippi ($65k).

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Stephen Strader @stephenmstrader.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

G-shocks are so expensive now... I picked up my Iniglo Expedition for 20.00.

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Stephen Strader @stephenmstrader.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Yes! Loved that one. Mine would have been circa 1996-98. Up next, Casio G-Shock 5600 series.

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Stephen Strader @stephenmstrader.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Been getting back into watches and picked up this cheap Timex Indiglo Expedition. Cousin had one of these when I was 8, and he was 16. I thought he/it was the coolest. I begged for one. Mom and Dad did get me one, but it has long since disappeared. Today, its replacement arrived. #Oldiebutagoodie

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NPR @npr.org · 25/08/2025

Nearly 1,400 people died after Hurricane Katrina crashed into Louisiana and Mississippi. Most of the deaths were in New Orleans, which has had an uneven recovery in the past 20 years.

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It was the costliest hurricane in U.S. history: Have we forgotten Katrina's lessons?

Nearly 1,400 people died after Hurricane Katrina crashed into Louisiana and Mississippi. Most of the deaths were in New Orleans, which has had an uneven recovery in the past 20 years.

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Stephen Strader @stephenmstrader.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

I am okay and not on campus. I am at home.

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Stephen Strader @stephenmstrader.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

The operative key word here is "Can". They won't. They haven't been and the consequences are generally not great. I think you severely underestimate the predatory nature of the MH industry. Again, this is based on decades of research from experts... www.stephenmstrader.org/_files/ugd/f...

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Stephen Strader @stephenmstrader.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Far too many people are unknowingly stuck on Child's Hill... Hey, when I was 4 yr old, I thought thunder was the sound of clouds colliding and if I stared at my arm when lightning happened I could see bones like an Xray. Then, I actually became an atmospheric scientist...

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Stephen Strader @stephenmstrader.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Also, it isn't as simple as "wind getting underneath the home". Tornadoes are violent winds with debris. Vertical and horizontal winds with extreme pressure differentials. If there is no chassis, then how will the home be anchored? They won't be.

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Stephen Strader @stephenmstrader.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

I think you are assuming these changes will suddenly require the homes to be anchored to the ground. They won't be. Many double-wide MHs are not anchored already because the codes say they are heavy enough (They aren't). This is stuff myself, and many wind engineers have worked on.

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Stephen Strader @stephenmstrader.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Weakening codes isn't the answer to affordability and availability issues. Take a look at the industry that is motivated by profits. You also just described EVERY disaster. A far majority of homes won't face a disaster, does that mean we need to weaken codes across the board?

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Stephen Strader @stephenmstrader.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

~75% of manufactured homes in the southeast where manufactured homes, by far, are most prevalent are not in "mobile home parks". No one said McMansions and other newly built homes are great. They aren't. Codes and standards are too weak. This is black and white thinking. It's miles of grey...

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Stephen Strader @stephenmstrader.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Yes! But codes are changed through legislation. Legislators are lobbied by the MH industry to lower codes because they want to max profits. "mobile" is an outdated term. Manufactured homes is what this is. Those are bounded by codes... albeit codes that are too weak.

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Stephen Strader @stephenmstrader.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Scientists spend their lives becoming experts on specific things. Then, someone who has thought about that topic for 5 min tells you that you're wrong. It's like me going up to a commercial pilot and giving him notes because I flew a drone a few times. Is it all Dunning-Kruger and projection? Yes.

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Stephen Strader @stephenmstrader.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

*Could* being the key word. They don't anchor many MHs anyways because the codes don't require it... They certainly aren't pouring a foundation in a far majority of MH installations.

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Stephen Strader @stephenmstrader.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

They become really free standing when the severe winds come knocking. Let's not point blame at the industry maximizing profits, let's question the bias and intentions of a lowly professor and researcher trying to help people survive hazards...

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Stephen Strader @stephenmstrader.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Guy? Class bias? I grew up lower-middle class, lost family friends to tornadoes because they lived in "strong" manufactured homes. I have worked on this issue for over a decade, am a leading expert on the topic, etc. No one is saying put people in apartments... Make the homes stronger, not weaker.

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Stephen Strader @stephenmstrader.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

The hazard and disaster mitigation dilemma in 140 characters or less...

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Stephen Strader @stephenmstrader.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Bumping this for visibility since I posted it over the weekend. It may just get lost in the constant barrage of bad news we get, but its something near and dear to my heart that I have worked on for a decade now. #mobilehome #manufacturedhome #tornado #wx #disaster

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Stephen Strader @stephenmstrader.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

I have long felt like we don't have a housing "affordability" problem, we have a housing "greed" problem. Homes could be more affordable and safer but profits over people. Eg Blackwater ownership, McMansions, etc.

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Stephen Strader @stephenmstrader.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Anchoring should be to the chassis. If that is weak, what is the point of anchoring? They will say the building materials are stronger than ever, but having been in these, I don't buy that one bit. The vinyl-covered wallboard (VOG) walls are terrible...

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