As a meteorologist we forecast as much as possible.
We try and let people know what the impacts will be.
Is it going to be a flood event?
Is it going to be a fire event?
Is it going to be high winds?
What kind of damage can you expect?
But what we can't do is help them after the fact.
And being there in the moment of these natural disasters
is shocking,
I think the first time you see it
it almost all starts to look the same.
Everything is just splintered.
It doesn't matter if it was water or wind
that moved it,
or perhaps it was an earthquake.
Everything that was a giant building just becomes
nothing.
There's suddenly nothing there.
And in the immediate aftermath of a disaster
you have nothing.
You don't have cell phone service.
You don't have water.
You don't have a restroom.
You don't have a refrigerator.
You don't have access to food.
And you've lost your entire home
and all of your belongings as well.
There's  not a lot that we can do right now
to help people prepare for a situation like that
unless we tell them to make a kit
Right?
Make a survival kit.
And we can't really do a lot more than that.
How do they find access to water?
How do they find access to medical help?
How do they realize they even need medical help, in certain circumstances?
The needs are endless
after a disaster.
