NOAA provides a map of potential flooding due to Hurricane Ian headed towards Florida. Red indicates greater than 9 feet of flooding above ground.
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House raided of fired Florida data manager in charged of Covid-19 dashboard
Jeffrey Schweers for Tallahassee Democrat:
State police brandishing firearms Monday raided the Tallahassee home of Rebekah Jones, the former Department of Health employee who built the state’s much-praised COVID-19 dashboard before being fired over what she said was refusing to “manipulate data.”
“They pointed a gun in my face. They pointed guns at my kids,” Jones tweeted shortly before 5 p.m.
After her firing in May, Jones started her own Covid-19 dashboard independently and has been maintaining it daily.
Strange.
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Florida data manager fired over transparency of Covid-19 data
Rebekah Jones, GIS manager for the Florida Department of Health, was fired a couple of weeks ago, apparently for making the state’s Covid-19 data more accessible and transparent. Florida Today reports on an email that Jones sent to researchers:
She warned that she does not know what the new team’s intentions are for data access, including “what data they are now restricting.”
“I understand, appreciate, and even share your concern about all the dramatic changes that have occurred and those that are yet to come,” she wrote.
“As a word of caution, I would not expect the new team to continue the same level of accessibility and transparency that I made central to the process during the first two months. After all, my commitment to both is largely (arguably entirely) the reason I am no longer managing it.”
Hm.
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Century of Florida hurricanes
Florida has seen a lot of hurricanes come and go. Lazaro Gamio for the Washington Post looks at all the hurricanes that made their way towards the state over the past 100 years.
The thought of a hurricane freaks me out. This must be how non-Californians feel about earthquakes.