Four lessons that emerged from a panel of experts that watched the Great Plains flooding unfold.
Tompkins messaged:
Partly due to the fact that the forecast called for rainfall totals that were not earth shattering some were slow to realize the top end potential of this event thus many in the media were not prepared for the level of flooding that did occur which meant there was not a ton of run -up to this particular event. As a result the news media really did not have this event on their radar until late in the game....
Chesterfield added that"this does not excuse the media, instead it should be seen as a challenge to the media to be better by finding ways to relate such stories to the masses." Mayes-Bousted expands on the scope of the human toll and vulnerability factors at play because farmers were not planting yet. She pointed out:
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