The Same Problem Elsewhere

Not heeding storm warnings is a problem that is apparently not confined to the United States (see two posts down),
On July 24, the PMD [Pakistan Meteorological Department] issued a flood warning to the provincial government of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KPK). Despite these increasingly severe warnings, KPK’s citizenry did not believe them. Like victims of Hurricane Katrina and other brewing natural disasters, the residents in KPK in the waters’ path did not leave their homes for safety. The inhabitants of KPK had no experience in their lifetimes that led them to believe that a flood on such a scale was possible. This is the most likely reason why the vast majority of the flood’s 1,985 victims perished in the earliest days of the flood in KPK.

Judith Curry has a fascinating story on what went wrong in the devastating Pakistan floods and how the situation might be improved.

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