Hurricane prep workshop attracts more people
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- Hurricane prep workshop attracts more people
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- Expert throws cold water on big hurricane fear
- Vital satellite’s failure intensifies storm fears Hurricane tracke…
- Can science outwit storms like Katrina?
- Iowa towns clean up after tornado
- Taking the hurricane name game by storm
Hurricane prep workshop attracts more people
Houston Chronicle – Jun 9, 2007
“It’s very important” said David Roth a former planning coordinator with the Harris County ffice of Homeland Security and Emergency Management. “The last storm we had tells you that people don’t know what is going on. Beside the seminars the workshop offered a hurricane fair of sorts on the third floor of the convention center where hurricane-related businesses and nonprofit organizations had set up information booths. ne preparedness expert Bonnie Cheuvront wandered the aisles with her husband networking and picking up freebies. At the Houston Humane Society booth she stopped to talk with Melanie Rushe. Rushe spent the day giving out pet evacuation advice. Cheuvront wanted some tips for getting her pet Shanti out of town during a hurricane.
… : Caribbean corals and sediments yield clues to hurricane…
Free with registration – Science News – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jun 9, 2007
(This Week) The recent spike in hurricane activity in the North Atlantic–a trend that some scientists blame on climate change–actually reflects a return to normal frequency after a lull in the 1970s and 1980s a new analysis confirms. Between 1995 and 2005 meteorologists recorded an annual average of 4. 1 category-3-or-stronger hurricanes in the North Atlantic and the Caribbean. Such hurricanes exhibit steady wind speeds exceeding 178 kilometers per hour. From 1971 through 1994 however.
Expert throws cold water on big hurricane fear
Providence Journal – Jun 9, 2007
LordJournal Environment WriterPRVIDENCE — New England is overdue for another big hurricane. You hear that over and over from forecasters newscasters and insurance executives. But is it true? No says S. Ming Lee president and chief executive officer of one of the world’s leading companies in catastrophic modeling. “Is New England due for the big one? The answer is no” Lee told a legislative panel here Wednesday… He said he hoped to elicit testimony from agencies that rate the financial soundness of local insurers. He also wants to talk with the Department of Business Regulation to draw up a list of standards to guide future premium increases. Matthew Belk a meteorologist and hurricane program leader for the National Weather Service in New England said yesterday that he agreed with Lee that hurricane activity in one year has nothing to do with what may happen in the following year. n the other hand he said New England gets hit with an average of one tropical storm every 11 or 12 years. And it hasn’t been hit with a hurricane since Hurricane Bob in 1991. It hasn’t had a really major hurricane since Carol in 1954 — 53 years ago. “I would say the odds are the odds” Belk said.
Vital satellite’s failure intensifies storm fears Hurricane tracke…
Free with registration – Sarasota Herald-Tribune – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jun 9, 2007
Vital satellite’s failure intensifies storm fears Hurricane tracker delivered no data for hours on May 22. (09-JUN-07) Sarasota Herald Tribune.
Can science outwit storms like Katrina?
Pakistan Dawn – Jun 9, 2007
After the New rleans hurricane protection system failed under the onslaught of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita the Army Corps of Engineers rethought the way it assesses hurricane risk. It devised new flexible computer models and ran countless simulations on Defence Department supercomputers to help it understand what kind of storms the region can expect how the current protection system might perform against them and what defences will be needed in the future. Sceptics say the corps has bitten off more than its supercomputers can chew. And in fact the effort to produce what the corps calls its risk and reliability report has long passed its original deadline of June 1 2006. Last week its publication was delayed yet again into mid-June… Bedey commander of the corps’ Hurricane Protection ffice in New rleans said the extra time had allowed the corps to learn from the mistakes of the past. The New rleans levees and floodwalls were built to withstand a hypothetical storm called the standard project hurricane a model developed with the Weather Bureau beginning in 1959 and based largely on data drawn from previous storms. The standard project hurricane was a hypothetical construct that may have been the state of the art at the time but is “very simplistic” by today’s standards Dr Link said. The old model was limited by the shortage of data on older storms and is essentially a static set of values Dr Link said adding “You pull a hurricane out of a box and you stick it down at landfall. That did not show the complex behaviour of a real storm which produces surge and waves that have profound effects on coastal areas in the days before it actually hits land.
Iowa towns clean up after tornado
Disaster News Network – Jun 9, 2007
Credit: National Weather Service Quad Cities ffice. Credit: National Weather Service Quad Cities fficeCleanup continues in Fruitland one week after a tornado tore a path through the area. “The volunteers have been wonderful” said Jan Lane volunteer coordinator at the Fruitland Fire Station. “I have 20 to 30 sheets full of names of those who came in. We’ve had them from as far away as Florida and Wisconsin… Credit: National Weather Service Quad Cities fficeCleanup continues in Fruitland one week after a tornado tore a path through the area. “The volunteers have been wonderful” said Jan Lane volunteer coordinator at the Fruitland Fire Station. “I have 20 to 30 sheets full of names of those who came in. We’ve had them from as far away as Florida and Wisconsin. “The June 1 tornado destroyed at least 29 homes in the small eastern Iowa town and caused major damage to more than 30 others.
Taking the hurricane name game by storm
Press-Enterprise (subscription) – Jun 9, 2007
I know what you're thinking and it's K:I didn't get you a gift either. The first June gloom was tropical depression Barry which made landfall last week in Florida and packed all the punch of Nicole Richie swatting a Nerf ball. Storms in the North Atlantic cean are named by the National Hurricane Center using six lists of names of alternating gender that have rotated every year since 1979. This year's batch: Andrea Barry Chantal Dean Erin Felix Gabrielle Ingrid Jerry Karen Lorenzo Melissa Noel Pablo Rebekah Sebastien Tanya Van and Wendy. Story continues below… Seriously “Van?”Why not just name it Hurricane Winnebago?Conspicuously absent on all six hurricane lists is ahem my name which is surprising because “Jeff' is the first thing I think of involving anything with powerful wind. Names from the other five lists that made the cut instead of mine: Bertha Beryl Cristobal Hermine dette Tomas and Virginie. r at least offer a hearty and sincere high-five (there's a flu bug going around). Another name on the official list is “Nana” a common nickname for grandma.