Once a Hurricane, Tropical Depression Cosme Provides Incentive to Stock Up on Batteries

CHORE has really let it slide this summer. We’re average only one post a month during hurricane season, a tipoff we’ve pretty much moved on and beyond the communications failures during and after Earthquake Sunday. Trouble is, so has everyone else, and there’s been virtually zero follow-up by the news media in recent months on how or whether October’s communications deficiencies have been corrected.

We may not have the answers to all the questions that have been posted here at CHORE until the next emergency, which is not a comforting feeling. If all the radio and TV stations stay on the air during the next major power outage, we’ll know the stations’ staffs have done a responsible job in fixing their problems. If they go to dead air, we’ll be the losers then and there.

COSME Comes Calling

Tropical Depression Cosme, a one-day hurricane earlier this week, has winds estimated at 30 knots this afternoon that could strengthen to minimal tropical storm intensity as it approaches the Hawaiian Islands. We need the rain.

Cosme is also delivering a reminder that storms are inevitable in Hawaii and require forethought to survive – from individual households to broadcasters and all the way up the emergency chain of command.

Cosme looks to be a minor inconvenience at worst for the islands. We’ll have to wait and see about the other Eastern Pacific storms that may come our way this year, starting with Delila, Erick, Gil, Henriette, Ivo, Juliette, Kiko………..