Schools closed, keeping children safe. Some administrators were criticized for doing so when the impacts were not that significant. What if one child had died walking to school, had been swept down a street drain, etc.? I’d rather be criticized for protecting students than for wishing I had behaved differently to keep just one more child safe.
Record temperatures, record flooding, record storms, record loss of life from wildfires ... every day there are new records being set somewhere in the world. We are just at the beginning of a new era in emergency management.
In military terms, we are now just at the tip of the spear, heading toward full-on calamity. The main battle has yet to be engaged and the limited losses we are experiencing now will be like nothing once “full-on combat” begins.
