Body found in Atlanta’s tornado rubble
The News Review:
- Body found in Atlanta’s tornado rubble
- Why don’t tornadoes hit cities more often?
- Abrams, Longhorns Withstand Late Hurricane Surge — NCAA Tournament
- Hurricane flood threat coming soon to Google
Body found in Atlanta’s tornado rubble
Seattle Times – Mar 23, 2008
“We may have the first tornado victim in the city of Atlanta, but we won’t know for sure until the medical examiner” returns with results, Officer James Polite said. The twister struck the city with little warning March 14, cutting a 6-mile path of destruction through the city. At least 27 people were injured. WashingtonFDA: Throw away cantaloupesPeople should throw away cantaloupes from a Honduran manufacturer believed to be linked to a salmonella outbreak, the government said Saturday.
Why don’t tornadoes hit cities more often?
Scientific American – Mar 23, 2008
urban and suburban areas cover, it’s a pretty small fraction. The regions where you have peak tornado frequencies—from Texas up through Kansas, and even east toward Atlanta and the Southeast—are open country, so that’s where most tornadoes spend the overwhelming fraction of their lifetimes. It’s very rare that one encounters a city, as happened in Atlanta last weekend. In 1999 there was a tornado that hit Oklahoma City and killed about 40 people. It was a long-track tornado that lasted about an hour—but most of its lifetime was spent over pretty open country. It crossed two subdivisions, and that’s where most of the fatalities happened… One could be confident that the global temperature is going to go up; however, the error ranges on what’s going to happen locally—whether the temperature is going to go up in Atlanta, or here in Boulder—are much wider. In the case of hurricanes, there’s a reasonable, if unproved, hypothesis that the storms might get more intense if global temperature rises and the surface temperature of the earth’s oceans rises—after all, in terms of the physics, warm water is key to creating a hurricane. With tornadoes, you can’t even make that basic statement because the effect of an increase in local temperature on tornado frequency or tornado intensity is unclear. Brazil is pretty hot, but it doesn’t have a lot tornadoes. Oklahoma and Texas are really hot in July and August, but that’s not the peak of their tornado season; spring is when those states see the most tornadoes. So it is possible that climate change could shift the tornado season to earlier in the year as spring creeps into winter.
Abrams, Longhorns Withstand Late Hurricane Surge — NCAA Tournament
Arkansas Business Online – Mar 23, 2008
Abrams, Longhorns Withstand Late Hurricane Surge — NCAA Tournament | Arkansas Sports 360. Abrams’ game was better – hitting 6 of 10 3-pointers and scoring 26 points, or helping hold Miami’s offensive star Jack McClinton well below his typical output for most of the game. Both were key in Texas establishing enough of a lead to hold off Miami in the final moments for a 75-72 win in the second round of the NCAA Tournament at Alltel Arena in North Little Rock.
Hurricane flood threat coming soon to Google
Globe and Mail – Mar 23, 2008
com would have Google on high ground, clear of danger. However, that’s less than the idea of one SLOSH(Sea, Lake, and Overland Surges from Hurriances)’ed. “There’s much more to Google than invincible castle in the sky.