Author Archives: Kartik Krishnaiyer
Botched evacuations & bureaucratic indifference lead to death – what happened in the 1935 Keys storm
With Hurricane Ian’s death toll rising in addition to the other enormous costs for Florida, this seems like an appropriate time to discuss the 1935 Labor Day Keys Hurricane, the strongest to ever make landfall in the US. The National Hurricane Center in 2014 reclassified the 1935 Keys Labor Day Storm, one of the greatest tragedies […]
TFS Archives: Irma a year later. Assessing the rubble of Florida’s disaster and has the state made the needed changes?
This is really important in the wake of Ian. All sorts of promises of change were made after Irma, and most promises were not kept. By Islanders41 – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=62406207 IRMA A YEAR LATER: ASSESSING THE RUBBLE OF FLORIDA’S DISASTER AND PREVENTING FAILURE AGAIN September 9, 2018 · by Kartik Krishnaiyer · in 2018, Hurricane season · 2 Comments ·Edit From […]
The New Republic: Hurricane Ian exposes Ron DeSantis faux environmentalism
I penned this piece for The New Republic, on Thursday after Ian ravaged much of the state.
Looking back at Hurricane Andrew
Five years ago, to mark the 25th Anniversary of Hurricane Andrew we ran a special series. In the wake of Hurricane Ian, it’s time reup this. Here are links from our archives: Part I: 1966 to 1992 Complacency and good luck for south Florida Part II: The week leading into Andrew NOAA image Part III […]
The cone – an obsolete tool that needs to be eliminated
I’ve been personally stressing as long as Twitter has existed that the cone that the NHC uses and then public seems to love is a misleading tool, often causing deadly confusion. The focus on the “cone” does more harm than good. It’s often forgotten, that the cone projects into the future the potential location of […]
Assessing Ian: Why were evacuations so difficult?
In the wake of Ian’s wrath, questions are being asked about why evacuations from barrier islands and vulnerable areas were so late and seemingly poorly executed compared to past storms. Let’s asses the potential reasons why: Uncertainty in track Ian’s center was forecast at various times to hit the Bahamas, Miami, Naples, St Petersburg, Cedar […]
How a 1926 Florida Hurricane stimulated the Great Depression
From the Florida History Podcast archives we discuss the Great Miami Hurricane of 1926 and how it stimulated the Great Depression and ended the Florida Land Boom.
Ian: Power outages spread across the state as well as restorations in southeast Florida
As of Noon ET on September 29, approximately 2.7 million Florida residences are without power. All of Lee County, approximately 430,000 residences (about 800,000 people) are without power. Additionally, over 200,000 customers are without power as well in Volusia, Collier, Orange and Hillsborough counties. In Collier and Volusia those numbers represent the majority of residences, […]
Ian: Don’t you dare say “they should have evacuated”
Throwing up a Twitter thread I put out there earlier to snap back at critics (mostly living outside of Florida with no geographic or cultural knowledge of this state) saying crazy things.
Four reasons why Ian is the worst Florida storm since 1935
Since the Florida peninsula suffered three of history’s most impactful Hurricanes in 1926, 1928 and 1935, no storm has ever wrecked havoc like Ian has. And it’s not over yet. 1-In terms of impacting the entire peninsula only Donna in 1960, Frances in 2004 and Irma in 2017 can make a similar case. Donna was […]
The Florida Squeeze 