The next morning I turned on the tv to see what the local news had to say about the "storm" (see last post). Take note of the "Severe Weather Team" on the screen, the amount of snow on the ground and the Colleges and University closures notice along the bottom.
A short walk from my hotel to the conference centre on the Emory Campus: there was slick ice on the roads and cars that had spun out abandoned at the bottom of the hill. For some, this was their first time driving in these conditions. Some children had never seen snow before!
Well, technically not the "floor", but it served it's purpose, I suppose. So laughable "severe weather" by our standards, but it is all a matter of perspective, what one is used to and how our different vulnerabilities come from our lived experiences. We will be talking about this very thing into the severe weather portion of the course in February.
A short walk from my hotel to the conference centre on the Emory Campus: there was slick ice on the roads and cars that had spun out abandoned at the bottom of the hill. For some, this was their first time driving in these conditions. Some children had never seen snow before!
Well, technically not the "floor", but it served it's purpose, I suppose. So laughable "severe weather" by our standards, but it is all a matter of perspective, what one is used to and how our different vulnerabilities come from our lived experiences. We will be talking about this very thing into the severe weather portion of the course in February.
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