Do I have a restaurant list started for each conference I’m attending this summer? Absolutely. Traveling without eating good food is like going to the beach but staying in the car.

Twisters just had the highest-grossing opening weekend for a disaster movie. In my newsletter, I wrote about the role disaster movies play in informing the public about hazards and how the Twisters team viewed that responsibility: mailchi.mp/821ccb5a325e/a…

Honest question: Why is Universal Pictures not pushing merchandise for Twisters? Things I want from the movie: - Not My First Tornadeo Shirt -Anything with a Dorothy Sensor -Childrens battery powered ride on Dodge truck with side mounted stability augers and rocket launchers

Skimming the news for stories on Twisters There is roughly one weather/disaster science/NOAA story for every ten "JUST LET HOT PEOPLE KISS" stories. So here is some of NOAA's promo content for the movie: noaa.gov/twisters-noaa-…

The girls who get it, get it. #EMGTwitter

Clearing bookshelves in my office for the start of the year. I feel like throwing this away, but worry I’ll start a Jumanji scenario. An innocent undergrad hears it calling to them on the beach and disappears to graduate school for a decade. NO ONE LEAVES UNTIL IT’S FINISHED!

For over a decade I've been lamenting about the issue of emergency management agency capacity. There's been some research on this but it is messy and weak. This is frustrating. It's SUPER important for us to know what our current EM capacity is because... #EMGTwitter

This is a hugely important study. If you're an emergency manager or play one on tv, please take some time to fill this out and share with your friends and/or enemies.