Rebuilding is spotty along hurricane-battered Gulf Coast highway in…
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- Rebuilding is spotty along hurricane-battered Gulf Coast highway in…
- Climate Change-Hurricane Debate Too Close to Call Author Says
- It’s our hurricane Katrina says emotion-charged PM
- Lake County tornado victims to get state assistance.
- ceanographer Developing Next Generation of Hurricane Forecast Tools
Rebuilding is spotty along hurricane-battered Gulf Coast highway in…
International Herald Tribune – Jun 26, 2007
90 a coastal highway that runs through an area hard hit by Hurricane Katrina from New rleans to the southeastern tip of Mississippi's Gulf Coast. In May 2006 a reporter for The Associated Press traveled along the highway to take stock of rebuilding efforts nine months after the massive storm. At the time the landscape looked as if the hurricane had just struck with piles of smelly debris sitting untouched next to shattered homes and toppled trees awaiting chain saws… Looters keep breaking in. “We're the forgotten ones down on this end of the beach” said Shute a United Airlines flight attendant. The couple is still hunting for belongings scattered by the hurricane. Katrina's storm surge swept through the house and deposited possessions in a patch of woods about a quarter of a mile north of their home. During a recent hike through the woods they sifted through twisted piles of debris and found a string of Christmas tree lights Loth's golf shoes and his old briefcase. Loth a Navy commando about to go on an overseas assignment also found the remnants of a rattan dining room set he bought during a trip to the Philippines. “Denise didn't like it anyway so she's glad it's gone” he joked.
Climate Change-Hurricane Debate Too Close to Call Author Says
Wired News – Jun 26, 2007
” Is our mishandling of the environment to blame for the well-documented increase in the frequency and severity of hurricanes? The answer is unclear. n one hand you’ve got a band of climate modelers led by MIT’s Kerry Emanuel who argue that global warming is making hurricanes more numerous and powerful. n the other William “Mr. Hurricane” Gray of Colorado State and Chris Landsea of the National Hurricane Center say the historical data proves that the current hurricane boom is a result of a natural warming and cooling cycle and will subside in a decade or two. Mooney likens the debate to the arguments over global warming 15 years ago and says it’s too early to take sides. “You can’t just write off scientists like Gray and Landsea” he says. “But no matter who’s right we have a lot to be worried about.
It’s our hurricane Katrina says emotion-charged PM
The Age – Jun 26, 2007
Photo: Glenn Campbell Misha Schubert Canberra and Lindsay Murdoch DarwinJune 26 2007. In an emotion-charged speech in Sydney last night Mr Howard passionately defended his plan to intervene in remote communities to stop the sexual abuse of children and vowed to take responsibility for its success or failure. "Many Australians myself included looked aghast at the failure of the American federal system of government to cope adequately with hurricane Katrina and the human misery and lawlessness that engulfed New rleans in 2005" he said. "We should have been more humble. We have our Katrina here and now.
Lake County tornado victims to get state assistance.
Free with registration – rlando Sentinel – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jun 26, 2007
(26-JUN-07) rlando Sentinel (rlando FL). 26–Lake County will receive $5 million from the state to help victims of the Feb. 2 tornadoes that killed 21 people and damaged hundreds of homes county officials announ.
ceanographer Developing Next Generation of Hurricane Forecast Tools
Newswise – Newswise (press release) – Jun 26, 2007
The next generation of hurricane models is being developed by URI Professor Isaac Ginis in collaboration with scientists at the NAA Centers for Environmental Prediction to replace an earlier version used by the National Hurricane Center since 1995. ?The new Hurricane Weather and Research Forecasting model will incorporate satellite data as well as temperature data collected from instruments dropped from aircraft into the water at the eye of the storm to create the first hurricane model that consolidates information from the air sea and land? said Ginis. ?This new model has improved physics and numerics allowing us to do a much better job of simulating the hurricane core at much higher resolution which results in better forecasts. ?While the accuracy of forecasting the path of a hurricane has improved dramatically over the years little improvement has been made in accurately predicting hurricane intensity according to Ginis. The new model is expected to greatly improve hurricane intensity predictions while also becoming the first model to predict the storm surge and inland flooding associated with hurricanes… The next generation of hurricane models is being developed by URI Professor Isaac Ginis in collaboration with scientists at the NAA Centers for Environmental Prediction to replace an earlier version used by the National Hurricane Center since 1995. ?The new Hurricane Weather and Research Forecasting model will incorporate satellite data as well as temperature data collected from instruments dropped from aircraft into the water at the eye of the storm to create the first hurricane model that consolidates information from the air sea and land? said Ginis. ?This new model has improved physics and numerics allowing us to do a much better job of simulating the hurricane core at much higher resolution which results in better forecasts. ?While the accuracy of forecasting the path of a hurricane has improved dramatically over the years little improvement has been made in accurately predicting hurricane intensity according to Ginis. The new model is expected to greatly improve hurricane intensity predictions while also becoming the first model to predict the storm surge and inland flooding associated with hurricanes. Ginis began work on the new model in 2006 and was recently awarded two grants from the National ceanic and Atmospheric Administration to complete work on it and make it operational for the 2008 hurricane season.