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#435 – SYSTEMS CHANGES NEEDED IN GOVERNANCE, INSURANCE, AND DISASTER PREPAREDNESS – BOB LEONARD

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I was in the room seven years ago when David Houle, the futurist, addressed the annual conference of Sarasota County realtors. If you don’t know, Sarasota is a seaside city on the Gulf coast of Florida. It has several heavily populated barrier islands just a couple feet above sea level. He said, “When will it become illegal to list properties vulnerable to sea level rise and storm surge without notifying potential buyers?” Continue reading →

#429 – HOW TO BE (WEATHER) PREPARED IN 2023 – BOB LEONARD

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I was a Boy Scout. Since 1907 the motto of the global Scouting program has been, “Be Prepared”. Yet the 2023 Scout Jamboree was woefully unprepared for a myriad of severe weather-related issues that befell it in South Korea in early August. Continue reading →

#420 – INSURANCE INDUSTRY MUST EVOLVE TO MEET GROWING RISKS TO OUR CLIMATE CRISIS – BOB LEONARD

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About 40% of the US population lives in an area vulnerable to climate impacts including sea level rise, extreme weather and forest fires. How do we pay for the damages that occur and distribute the risk? This is a huge concern for the insurance industry in particular. Continue reading →

#403 – CLIMATE RESILIENCE PLANNING COULD HAVE AVERTED SOUTHWEST’S CHRISTMAS DEBACLE – BOB LEONARD

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Southwest estimates the loss from their scheduling system meltdown to be around $825M. Those are just the direct costs of lost revenue from canceling more than 15,000 of its flights starting on Dec. 22. It doesn’t include the costs for fines, brand erosion and systems upgrades which will increase the loss to well over a billion dollars. Continue reading →

#395 – POST HURRICANE IAN: FLORIDIANS HAVE COMPLEX DECISIONS TO MAKE – BOB LEONARD

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Living a quarter of a mile from the Gulf of Mexico in Sarasota, Florida, I knew we would eventually have to make a decision. Hurricane Irma was the deciding factor. We were without power (so no AC) for 10 days in September in south Florida. The heat and humidity were brutal. So we decided to get out of harm’s way. We relocated to Oregon. That was five years ago. The current residents of southwest Florida face more complex climate-related decisions. Continue reading →