Jennifer Berry Hawes

A year after graduation, the 22yo with no apparent national security expertise is now a Dept of Homeland Security official overseeing the government’s main hub for terrorism prevention. https://t.co/eTsrcrCJ56

RT @wxbrad: Long read but worth your time to help understand just some of the lead up to Helene, the communication problem of people not fu…

Very cool graphic explanation of how weather balloons work and what we lose when they are not flying. https://t.co/EzC4jzOC85

NC Gov ⁦@JoshStein_⁩ offers suggestions to fix, not dismantle, ⁦⁦@fema⁩ : “States simply do not have the capacity to take in individual applications and get people immediate cash assistance the way that FEMA can.” https://t.co/zwEYHhnEPf

RT @charlesornstein: ICYMI, a stunning story about life and death, failure and catastrophic wreckage. Hurricane Helene’s Unheard Warnings i…

RT @jeremykohler: In case you missed it — bookmark this essential reporting for your long weekend reading list.

RT @propublica: The warnings about Helene proved prescient. But many residents in Yancey County never saw them. Others said the warnings t…

FEMA has lost about 1/4 of its full-time staff, including 1/5 of staffers who manage responses to large-scale disasters, a former senior official said. NOAA has lost about 1/5 of its staff, including hundreds of people from the National Weather Service. https://t.co/eJY6pd7l4L

RT @anfuller: Thank you @JenBerryHawes and @propublica for this story. It means so much to me that you published this all these months late…

RT @charlesornstein: Absolutely stunning must-read story: Hurricane Helene’s Unheard Warnings https://t.co/ccszIvBluP @JenBerryHawes

RT @propublica: As coastal areas have become far better at warning and evacuating people about hurricanes, inland communities too often rem…