Hope is not a method
By Glenn Bischoff
Aug. 6, 2007
BALTIMORE--Speaking at today's Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials conference, former U.S. Coast Guard Captain Larry Brudnicki enthralled attendees with stories from an event that a few years ago was the subject of a popular motion picture.
Brudnicki and his crew were involved in two rescue operations during a storm which defied description, according to Brudnicki, a storm that was five times the size of Hurricane Andrew, "the worst weather in 100 years," he said. Afterwards, it was thought that the storm should have a name. At first, Brudnicki said, newspapers referred to it as the "Halloween Storm" because it represented a mariner's "worst nightmare." Eventually, given its severity and the conditions under which it formed, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration meteorologist christened it the "Perfect Storm." ...
By Glenn Bischoff
Aug. 6, 2007
BALTIMORE--Speaking at today's Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials conference, former U.S. Coast Guard Captain Larry Brudnicki enthralled attendees with stories from an event that a few years ago was the subject of a popular motion picture.
Brudnicki and his crew were involved in two rescue operations during a storm which defied description, according to Brudnicki, a storm that was five times the size of Hurricane Andrew, "the worst weather in 100 years," he said. Afterwards, it was thought that the storm should have a name. At first, Brudnicki said, newspapers referred to it as the "Halloween Storm" because it represented a mariner's "worst nightmare." Eventually, given its severity and the conditions under which it formed, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration meteorologist christened it the "Perfect Storm." ...
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