Colleen:
Thanks so much for your thoughts on enhanced skywarn training for the blind.
I'm going to archive all of the e-mails I get, so they are available when I
put the actual article together.
Hopefully, I'll get some additional responses from other list members as the
days go on here.
I just need to document the fact that such a program as described in my
original e-mail would be perceived as being useful for the folks it is
designed to serve.
Thanks again.
73 from Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
----- Original Message -----
From: "Colleen Roth" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 6:18 PM
Subject: Re: slightly off topic: enhanced basic skywarn training for the
blind
> Hi,
> I think there is an interest. I am writing on the list because I am sure
> many of us Volunteer for Skywarn. I bring up our net for District One
> Skywarn until someone gets downtown or when no one is available to go
> downtown to the 911 Building.
> This is a great idea.
> Colleen Roth, N8TNV;
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: That Behler <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: 2009/03/10 16:58:35
> Subject: slightly off topic: enhanced basic skywarn training for the
> blind
>
>>
>>
>> Hi, all.
>>
>> I realize that this post might be considered slightly "off topic", so
>> let's
>> direct responses to me off list.
>>
>> My private e-mail address is:
>>
>> [log in to unmask]
>>
>>
>> Like some others on this list, I'm sure, I've sat through many basic
>> skywarn
>> training sessions that have been given by my local National Weather
>> Service
>> office, and during the last one, I was struck with an idea. Might it be
>> possible, either through clear verbal descriptions, or through "hands on"
>> demonstrations, to develop descriptions of various relevant storm
>> features
>> so that folks like us could understand them? I'm thinking here of
>> descriptions of various cloud formations associated with severe
>> thunderstorms and tornadoes (e.g. funnel clouds, wall clouds, shelf
>> clouds,
>> roll clouds, mammatus clouds, skud clouds, etc.), and descriptions of
>> what
>> thunderstorms actually look like in their various stages of development.
>>
>> All of this grows out of my increasing involvement in what's called
>> "Weather
>> And Society Integrated Studies", where there is now a very concerted
>> effort
>> to integrate meteorology with the social sciences.
>>
>> I have discussed this idea with several meteorologists, and they seem
>> very
>> interested in helping come up with some ideas.
>>
>> I have also been given the "go ahead" to prepare an article on the topic
>> for
>> a news letter called "Weather And Society Watch", with the idea of
>> publishing the article sometime this Summer.
>>
>> My question to you folks is this:
>>
>> Do you think there'd be sufficient interest in the blind community for
>> something like this?
>>
>> I have to believe there is, but obviously, I'm only one voice.
>>
>> If you feel there might be sufficient interest, and you wouldn't mind
>> being
>> quoted in such an article, please forward your comments to me. Again, I
>> think privately would be the best.
>>
>> Equally important, if you think this would not be a fruitful thing to
>> pursue, let me know as well, and I promise I'll read and seriously
>> consider
>> your comments.
>>
>> Thanks for reading this post, and I appreciate any input anyone is
>> willing
>> to provide.
>>
>> 73 from Tom Behler: KB8TYJ, Big Rapids, MI
>
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