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About this blog: I was a "corporate brat" growing up and lived in different parts of the country, ending in Houston, Texas for high school. After attending college at UC Davis, and getting an MBA at Harvard, I embarked on a marketing career, mai...
(More)About this blog: I was a "corporate brat" growing up and lived in different parts of the country, ending in Houston, Texas for high school. After attending college at UC Davis, and getting an MBA at Harvard, I embarked on a marketing career, mainly in the Bay Area with different companies. My former wife went back to medical school after we had been married a few years, and we moved into married student housing at Stanford, had our two now adult children while she was a medical student, and moved into Palo Alto when she started her Residency. Been here ever since. As my kids were going through the Palo Alto schools, I was actively involved in their activities, most notably head umpire for Palo Alto Little League and 9 years as a member of the Parks and Recreation Commission, among other activities. My kids both are grown, my son teaches 5th grade locally, and my daughter, fluent in Mandarin, is working in China. I sold the business I owned and ran for 8 years in 2012, worked on the Obama campaign, and am consulting for non-profit organizations, which gives me a nice, flexible schedule. Lots of stamps in my passport, and for fun, I like live performances &emdash; theater and music - and of course the Giants!
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Cloudy Skies--Katrina, Irene
Uploaded: Aug 29, 2011
My daughter still is home here in Palo Alto, due to the weather from Hurricane Irene on the East Coast. 11,000 flights cancelled over the weekend.
She had plans back at college in Vermont that Irena has disrupted. Major scramble on the internet and the phone to re-schedule.
My ex-wife and I were driving back to Palo Alto about this time in 2005, after our son started his college time in Spokane. NPR was on in the car, and we heard the drama develop well before Katrina actually introduced herself to New Orleans.
I am grateful to all those who erred to the fault of caution with regard to this current disaster: overall did it turn out to be less of a disaster due to their actions? We never will know.
I just remember driving home 6 years ago for 1 and half days and hearing on the radio of little or nothing being done to deal with the storm that New Orleans would experience. Overall, did it turn out to be more of a disaster due to their inattention? We never will know.
But I know what sort of people I prefer to have in charge of our nation's safety in such circumstances.
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