Norah Schneider
@nschneider03.bsky.social
Disaster and hazard historian, but I like it all. Climate, hazards, society, and infrastructure. Natural & human made.
Always up for talking about cats, books, office supplies, reality tv, true crime, and pop culture.
New England Girl always! 💕
Always up for talking about cats, books, office supplies, reality tv, true crime, and pop culture.
New England Girl always! 💕
It is sunny. And very very windy. Which means Beau is chasing sunbeams.
November 16, 2025 at 2:07 PM
It is sunny. And very very windy. Which means Beau is chasing sunbeams.
Yes DePauw!!!!! Keeping that bell!!!! Go Tigers!!!
a red and gold object with a hole in the middle
Alt: The Monon Railroad bell, half gold for DePauw and half red for Wabash, being rung at the Monon Bell football game.
media.tenor.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Yes DePauw!!!!! Keeping that bell!!!! Go Tigers!!!
Why am I up at 330am?
Woke up to a knock & my neighbors yippy dogs losing their absolute minds. Got curious enough to get out of bed and saw a second man in their house with a flashlight, no lights on & the owner outside in pajamas with the dogs.
No idea what happened but I’m so curious & awake.
Woke up to a knock & my neighbors yippy dogs losing their absolute minds. Got curious enough to get out of bed and saw a second man in their house with a flashlight, no lights on & the owner outside in pajamas with the dogs.
No idea what happened but I’m so curious & awake.
a man is peeking through a window with blinds .
Alt: a man is peeking through a window with blinds .
media.tenor.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Why am I up at 330am?
Woke up to a knock & my neighbors yippy dogs losing their absolute minds. Got curious enough to get out of bed and saw a second man in their house with a flashlight, no lights on & the owner outside in pajamas with the dogs.
No idea what happened but I’m so curious & awake.
Woke up to a knock & my neighbors yippy dogs losing their absolute minds. Got curious enough to get out of bed and saw a second man in their house with a flashlight, no lights on & the owner outside in pajamas with the dogs.
No idea what happened but I’m so curious & awake.
Reading Child X
Watching The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives and rewatching Abbott Elementary.
Watching The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives and rewatching Abbott Elementary.
We made it to the weekend, friends! What are we reading, watching, listening to, or otherwise doing for fun (or distraction)?
November 15, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Reading Child X
Watching The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives and rewatching Abbott Elementary.
Watching The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives and rewatching Abbott Elementary.
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Don't miss my picks for environmental history worth reading from last month! October was a really vibrant month for #envhist. It was hard to choose just five!
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#EnvHist Worth Reading: October 2025
Find a landslide, urban light pollution, and unfulfilled treaty promises in the latest list of environmental history worth reading from Jessica DeWitt.
niche-canada.org
November 14, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Don't miss my picks for environmental history worth reading from last month! October was a really vibrant month for #envhist. It was hard to choose just five!
niche-canada.org/2025/11/14/e...
niche-canada.org/2025/11/14/e...
Describe your cat’s personality with one photo.
November 10, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Describe your cat’s personality with one photo.
Nonfiction November started slow with some professional development and deep history reads.
Cultivate Your Garden by Dan Stoneking and Rebecca Kuperberg.
Intrepid Girls by Amy Erdman Farrell.
Cultivate Your Garden by Dan Stoneking and Rebecca Kuperberg.
Intrepid Girls by Amy Erdman Farrell.
November 7, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Nonfiction November started slow with some professional development and deep history reads.
Cultivate Your Garden by Dan Stoneking and Rebecca Kuperberg.
Intrepid Girls by Amy Erdman Farrell.
Cultivate Your Garden by Dan Stoneking and Rebecca Kuperberg.
Intrepid Girls by Amy Erdman Farrell.
International weather patterns indicate this could be a regular occurrence over the next few months. Remember your layers and check the weather each morning to see if it’s still sweater weather.
Temperatures up and down quite frequently ahead. Big news is chance of a freeze even in downtown DC early next week. Would be rather early if so. Find out how early and check out the latest forecast update at cwg.live!
November 4, 2025 at 9:58 PM
International weather patterns indicate this could be a regular occurrence over the next few months. Remember your layers and check the weather each morning to see if it’s still sweater weather.
I scream sing along to Not Ready to Make Nice at least once a week.
people have completely memory holed this which is a shame because I don't know that I've seen anything like it before or since. Natalie Maines, performing in London, said she was ashamed that George W. Bush was from Texas, and in response she and her bandmates had their lives destroyed
In my second of two opinion writing seminars for MPP students today, I was asked about getting canceled in the future over writing today. I immediately responded with my deeply held belief that only The Chicks ever have been canceled. 3 of the 65 people laughed; everyone else was very confused.
November 4, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I scream sing along to Not Ready to Make Nice at least once a week.
I’m reading a book on the Girl Scouts and can’t get my old Girl Scout camp song out of my head.
I've had a strange, strange mix of earworms for a couple days.
"Polly Wolly Doodle" was among them.
"Polly Wolly Doodle" was among them.
November 3, 2025 at 1:31 AM
I’m reading a book on the Girl Scouts and can’t get my old Girl Scout camp song out of my head.
I completely understand typos in books, especially first prints. I am queen of not finding a typo until something is submitted. But if you’re writing a history of an organization and you miss the error of the wrong death date for the founder, that’s gonna stay with me.
November 2, 2025 at 12:53 AM
I completely understand typos in books, especially first prints. I am queen of not finding a typo until something is submitted. But if you’re writing a history of an organization and you miss the error of the wrong death date for the founder, that’s gonna stay with me.
Had to lecture Beau that we can’t hiss at children. We haven’t handed out candy for a while because Cooper couldn’t be trusted not to get out but this year we are and Beau is so unamused.
October 31, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Had to lecture Beau that we can’t hiss at children. We haven’t handed out candy for a while because Cooper couldn’t be trusted not to get out but this year we are and Beau is so unamused.
I’m a disaster and hazard historian working in infrastructure resilience. I’m not a meteorologist. I will never make forecasts. I do however rely heavily on professional meteorologists for my information and share only what they’ve verified with the knowledge they went to school to learn.
a poster for today 's weather with a clock on it
Alt: a poster for today 's weather with a red arrow in the center spinning around over different weather options. Foggy, rainy, cold, hot, snowy, cloudy, windy, sunny.
media.tenor.com
October 28, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I’m a disaster and hazard historian working in infrastructure resilience. I’m not a meteorologist. I will never make forecasts. I do however rely heavily on professional meteorologists for my information and share only what they’ve verified with the knowledge they went to school to learn.
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Update: Hurricane Melissa has made landfall in southwestern Jamaica — and has tied the all-time record for strongest Atlantic basin hurricane landfall.
Hurricane Melissa will be a generational-scale climate disaster and will require an international response to help Jamaicans recover.
Hurricane Melissa will be a generational-scale climate disaster and will require an international response to help Jamaicans recover.
October 28, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Update: Hurricane Melissa has made landfall in southwestern Jamaica — and has tied the all-time record for strongest Atlantic basin hurricane landfall.
Hurricane Melissa will be a generational-scale climate disaster and will require an international response to help Jamaicans recover.
Hurricane Melissa will be a generational-scale climate disaster and will require an international response to help Jamaicans recover.
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It’s impossible to look at this and not think “holy shit”.
Perhaps the most ominous satellite presentation we've seen. Cat 5 Melissa within 2 hours of landfall in Jamaica. Winds at 185 mph (tied for 2nd highest on record). Pressure at 892 mb (tied for 3rd lowest). Will be one of strongest Atlantic storms to make landfall ever recorded.
October 28, 2025 at 3:29 PM
It’s impossible to look at this and not think “holy shit”.
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new visual allegory just dropped
We can now watch the United States explode and sink beneath the ocean live!
Sinking of SS United States to be livestreamed using drones and underwater cameras
The historic ship will be sunk off the Florida panhandle by the end of the year, but no date has been set.
www.phillyvoice.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:39 PM
new visual allegory just dropped
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Atlantic Hurricane Melissa Advisory Number 28 issued at Tue, 28 Oct 2025 08:55:58 +0000
...CONDITIONS DETERIORATING ON JAMAICA AS EXTREMELY DANGEROUS CATEGORY 5 MELISSA SLOWLY APPROACHES... ...CATASTROPHIC WINDS, FLASH FLOODING, AND STORM SURGE EXPECTED ON THE ISLA...
Additional Details Here.
...CONDITIONS DETERIORATING ON JAMAICA AS EXTREMELY DANGEROUS CATEGORY 5 MELISSA SLOWLY APPROACHES... ...CATASTROPHIC WINDS, FLASH FLOODING, AND STORM SURGE EXPECTED ON THE ISLA...
Additional Details Here.
October 28, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Atlantic Hurricane Melissa Advisory Number 28 issued at Tue, 28 Oct 2025 08:55:58 +0000
...CONDITIONS DETERIORATING ON JAMAICA AS EXTREMELY DANGEROUS CATEGORY 5 MELISSA SLOWLY APPROACHES... ...CATASTROPHIC WINDS, FLASH FLOODING, AND STORM SURGE EXPECTED ON THE ISLA...
Additional Details Here.
...CONDITIONS DETERIORATING ON JAMAICA AS EXTREMELY DANGEROUS CATEGORY 5 MELISSA SLOWLY APPROACHES... ...CATASTROPHIC WINDS, FLASH FLOODING, AND STORM SURGE EXPECTED ON THE ISLA...
Additional Details Here.
Two groups of people stayed up very late. 1) baseball fans. 2) anyone with an interest in Hurricane Melissa - professional and personal.
There is a small overlap in groups. Everyone is tired.
There is a small overlap in groups. Everyone is tired.
October 28, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Two groups of people stayed up very late. 1) baseball fans. 2) anyone with an interest in Hurricane Melissa - professional and personal.
There is a small overlap in groups. Everyone is tired.
There is a small overlap in groups. Everyone is tired.
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The Jays and Dodgers will break for Christmas Eve to share a drink in no man’s land, show each other photos of the family they left back home, before heading back to their respective trenches.
October 28, 2025 at 5:56 AM
The Jays and Dodgers will break for Christmas Eve to share a drink in no man’s land, show each other photos of the family they left back home, before heading back to their respective trenches.
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Atlantic Hurricane Melissa Advisory Number 27 issued at Tue, 28 Oct 2025 02:57:53 +0000
...MELISSA EXPECTED TO BRING CATASTROPHIC AND LIFE-THREATENING WINDS, FLOODING, AND STORM SURGE TO JAMAICA ON TUESDAY...
Additional Details Here.
...MELISSA EXPECTED TO BRING CATASTROPHIC AND LIFE-THREATENING WINDS, FLOODING, AND STORM SURGE TO JAMAICA ON TUESDAY...
Additional Details Here.
October 28, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Atlantic Hurricane Melissa Advisory Number 27 issued at Tue, 28 Oct 2025 02:57:53 +0000
...MELISSA EXPECTED TO BRING CATASTROPHIC AND LIFE-THREATENING WINDS, FLOODING, AND STORM SURGE TO JAMAICA ON TUESDAY...
Additional Details Here.
...MELISSA EXPECTED TO BRING CATASTROPHIC AND LIFE-THREATENING WINDS, FLOODING, AND STORM SURGE TO JAMAICA ON TUESDAY...
Additional Details Here.