Security Ripcord

I heard about a failing weather satellite on the NPR so I had to search out the story to confirm it. A quick Google lead me to this quote from The Associated Press

An aging weather satellite crucial to accurate predictions on the intensity and path of hurricanes could fail at any moment and plans to launch a replacement have been pushed back seven years to 2016.

Okay, just so the government is aware, the terms “crucial” and “fail” should not be used in the same sentence as “have been pushed back.”  I believe that there is even some precedence to be concerned about the “difference between a city being evacuated or not.”

As a person who lives along the Third Coast, I am very concerned about the accuracy of the information provided by these satellites.  I don’t like exposing my family, including two young boys, to the possibility of an 8 to 12 hour evacuation drive that might involve the possibility of being broken down in the middle of nowhere with limited resources and even less assistance from safety personnel who will be dealing with countless other issues.

Somebody needs to evaluate the methods that are used to identify the critical assets involved with protecting millions of lives and billions of dollars worth of assets.  Heck, I am not sure why the insurance companies allowed this to happen.  Wait a minute!! “Failure”…..”insurance”….didn’t anybody insure this asset so that if there was a critical malfunction we could speed up the implementation of a replacement?

Go forth and do good things,
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