It is never a good sign when you check the local forecast on your phone and get this message: “This is a tornado emergency for the city of Dallas! Seek shelter now to save your life!”
Greg Reyneke has what he calls a “scary scale” to rank the level of difficulty for the jobs he works on. A recent water treatment project in Uganda received a perfect 10 on the scary scale.
My favorite television show
is the 1970s drama “Emergency!” which chronicles the happenings at a Los Angeles County fire department and nearby
hospital.
Numbers can be quite
revealing - and educational.
For instance, since 2006 nearly a quarter-billion people in the United States
have been affected by a federally declared weather-related disaster. Think
about that - four of every five people.
Dennis Holden was in a major
jam.
Holden, the owner of Las Vegas-based Ideal Supply, had a customer with an
urgent need for valves and fittings used in conjunction with pumping chocolate
syrup at a granola bar factory in New Mexico.