Recommendations included “a multi-agency effort to improve research” while “the key government agency for storm analysis, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, has seen its staff decline over the years.” Corresponding with the release of this report was the introduction of a bill by U.S. Senator Mel Martinez “designed to implement the report’s recommendations ‘to better research, predict and prepare for hurricanes.’”
Surprisingly the NSB also stated in the report:
We know relatively little about the most important aspects of hurricanes, including their internal dynamics and interactions with the larger-scale atmosphere and ocean; methods for quantifying and conveying uncertainty and mitigating hurricane impacts; associated short- and long-term consequences on the natural and built environment; and the manner in which society responds before, during and after landfall. The present federal investment in hurricane science and engineering research relative to the tremendous damage and suffering caused by hurricanes is insufficient, and time is not on our side.
I agree with what the NSB has commented on and hope more federal money will be spent on preventative measures for future hurricanes. If more money is not allocated then another Katrina could bare down on us.
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