Bryan Strawser

Musings from the land of winter & road construction

Category: News

Things that did go right….

With the heap of criticism that’s being leveled at FEMA right now, I think it’s important to point out that some things did go right. Some examples from the public daily FEMA national situation report: 8/27: State and Federal Preparedness for Hurricane Katrina FEMA Headquarters: The FEMA National Response Coordination Center (NRCC) remains at modified [...]

Random Thoughts on Katrina

I don’t have a lot of time this weekend to write about this the way that I would like to do – and it’s clear that there are things that I shouldn’t say or share because of the job I hold now…. I spent all day yesterday dealing with the aftermath of this at work [...]

RIP: Peter Jennings, 67

ABC News and others are reporting the death of Peter Jennings from lung cancer at age 67. He had announced in April of this year that he had the disease. Rest in peace, Peter.