Especially, evidently, North Carolina.
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Mother Nature hates the South
- Post author By griffey
- Post date February 1, 2005
- 2 Comments on Mother Nature hates the South
By griffey
Jason Griffey is the Director of Strategic Initiatives at NISO, where he works to identify new areas of the information ecosystem where standards expertise is useful and needed. Prior to joining NISO in 2019, Jason ran his own technology consulting company for libraries, has been both an Affiliate at metaLAB and a Fellow and Affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, and was an academic librarian in roles ranging from reference and instruction to Head of IT at the University of TN at Chattanooga.
Jason has written extensively on technology and libraries, including multiple books and a series of full-periodical issues on technology topics, most recently AI & Machine Learning in Libraries and Library Spaces and Smart Buildings: Technology, Metrics, and Iterative Design from 2018. His newest book, co-authored with Jeffery Pomerantz, will be published by MIT Press in 2024.
He has spoken internationally on topics such as artificial intelligence & machine learning, the future of technology and libraries, decentralization and the Blockchain, privacy, copyright, and intellectual property. A full list of his publications and presentations can be found on his CV.
He is one of eight winners of the Knight Foundation News Challenge for Libraries for the Measure the Future project (http://measurethefuture.net), an open hardware project designed to provide actionable use metrics for library spaces. He is also the creator and director of The LibraryBox Project (http://librarybox.us), an open source portable digital file distribution system.
Jason can be stalked obsessively online, and spends his free time with his daughter Eliza, reading, obsessing over gadgets, and preparing for the inevitable zombie uprising.
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2 replies on “Mother Nature hates the South”
um, is it truly that nc gets hit with so many natural disasters or is it our inability to handle any of them. i mean, we closed the desk early on saturday because it was sleeting. and not even really that hard. i think we could alleviate about a billion of that with some salt for icy roads. i’m just saying…
Well, they’re talking billion dollars or more, not small storms. I think part of it is because NC is very large and varied in topography. The mountains may get a huge snowstorm which would cost $, while the Piedmont gets ice, which would raise the bill further, while the coast gets flooding and storm surges. And that’s just winter.
In summer, there are tornadoes in NC, as well as the many hurricanes that seem to head straight for the Outer Banks. Those winter and summer problems add up to a lot.
Size, varied elevation, and being the furthest point for tropically warm waters would account for much of the natural disasters that hit. All that’s missing is some kind of geologic activity. Go NC!