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Hurricane boss forced out to sea
Posted by Fired Fred on July 9, 2007 5:16 PM
After six months on the job, the chief of the National Hurricane Center found himself reassigned. That's not what 23 of his underlings wanted.
They sought a pink slip for Hurricane Bill Proenza. Was he mean to staff? Did he insist on having a bigger umbrella than everybody else?
Upon further review, or at least a casual glance from the Futon Of Love at the Internet, it looks like Hurricane Bill spoke truth to power...
Many of those employees said they feared Proenza's actions could affect the way they forecast and deal with storms this year.Hurricane Bill wanted money to replace an aging weather satellite, too.
Proenza has publicly questioned how aging equipment will hold up for forecasters.
No one's accusing the guy of spending government money on pub crawls on South Beach, or trying to change the names of hurricanes to Pokemon characters. It sounds like he wanted more funding so the Center could do a better job.
The Feds ought to look into who's benefiting from the status quo among those 23 backstabbers. Someone's covering up something. C'mon, it's in Miami, Florida. Doesn't anyone read Carl Hiaasen these days? Florida and corruption go together like Bacardi and Coke.
Why would anyone be against doing a better job of hurricane prediction? Too weird, peeps.
I think had a good point in updating the satellite. I think the main reason those 23 employee wrote that petition for his dismissal was because they didn't like him and the idea of changing the way they normally run thing in the center. And whoever gets the position now, should have more backbone and more finesse handling their employees. And I hope they don't promote any of the 23, that will just look too suspicious
Posted on: July 10, 2007 8:02 AM