This is a video clip from the DVD program “Storm Chase 1990-1992 by Robert Prentice.” This is a damage survey of the devastating F5 tornado damage at the Andover, Kansas Golden Spur Mobile Home Park shot on April 27, 1991. This internationally famous event has been featured in many documentary and news programs. Oddities include mangled cars, de-barked trees and a bent spoon embedded into the ground. Some scenes contain flattened homes as far as the eye can see. Sobering video that forces us …

Scary stuff, here is the video. For more info, visit www.eibuddy.com

For your enjoyment, more of Warren’s insane weather pictures.Thank you for watching our extreme storm footage. Please note the following! 1: If you wish to contact us, please do not leave me a message here, as we do not check our YouTube mail very often. Please visit www.stormchaser.com and use the contact data there. 2 For commercial licensing of this footage, please visit www.weatherstock.com 3 For consumer DVD’s, prints, posters, etc, please visit www.stormchaser.com and follow the links …

okay i have this project due 2morrow 2nd period so help me !!

i need to kno human impacts on a tiger n some aboitic factor.
abiotic is things like shelter, weather etc.[[things that arnt livin]]
also if any of you kno where to get a food web for a tiger that would be SO great !!

I would like contacts of buisneses that will provide housing and good benefits to carpentry workers.

I need to hire a shutter company before hurricane season and there are so many fly by nights in this industry

I live in TX and we might have to evacuate b/c of the hurricane… I know I’m forgetting some supplies in case we need to evacuate…

Here is what I have so far….I have collars, leashes, meds, food, water, blankets, crates, the vet’s #…

what paperwork do I need? Just their vaccine records?

What am I forgetting?!?

TIA!

Heather

Jason Remigio III
Colorado Technical University Online
SCI205-0802B-11: Environmental Science
Julie R. Hens
May 28, 2008
Phase 1 Individual Project Task 2

Global Warming Effect

The population of this Easter Island peaked around more than 10,000 which had exceeded the capabilities of the small island’s ecosystem, Admiral Roggeveen came upon the island in 1722, when first discovered by a known civilization he name it Easter Island that we as came to known today. Easter Island was an thriving and advanced social order of what has started to decline into a bloody civil war, which was cannibalism was once a remnant of an lost continent or an extra-terrestrial influence and the archaeological evidence turned it in that it started around 400 A.D. and the island was long discovered by the Polynesians. Their written language was written in Oceania and the resources became scarce and once flourishing palm forests were destroyed. The island population was a disaster to slavery and disease. Easter Island was an epiphany of an ecological disaster (Brookman, 2007). Forests have provided a habitat for plant and animal species, as we move into the 21st century, as we Americans are addicted to oil it has destroyed the rainforests in its continuing funding of dirty coal by major banks which can and must end. A major “big word” that has contributed in destroying the rainforests was the rapid proliferation of soy and palm oil plantations owned by U.S. agribusiness. The tropical rainforests are starting to disappear at an alarming rate of 100,000 acres per day which poses a major threat to the tropical Amazon rainforest the world’s largest intact rainforest. The rainforest is the best weapon in curbing climate change so it doesn’t further the weather effects of global warming, greenhouses gases going into the atmosphere has become intensive. Brazil is the world’s fourth largest emitter and also has accounted for three-quarters of greenhouses gases emissions that have come from Brazil which has affected the world in deforestation. The releasing process of not only carbon dioxide, but also methane, a far more potent greenhouse gas, however, the industrial agricultural plantations converts vital carbon sink into a dangerous greenhouse gas emitter. Rainforests does it can to curb off climate change by storing carbon from where it originated this helps regulate global weather patterns that is why moisture coming from the rainforests produces rain that travels far away from the tropic ecosystem (Rainforest Action Network, 1995-2008).
Our planet Earth’s ocean only 95 percent underwater is still uncharted it is the undiscovered county while 71 of the Earth’s ocean covers the planet surface and 97 percent of the planet is mainly of water. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), now aims to make 21st century technology the Achilles heel in observing, and predicting as it protects the planet by providing scientists with scientific information to make a sound policy on their decision-making process. They test our oceans which supports 20 percent of the animal protein and 5 percent total of the human diet protein, while only nearly 50 percent of all life on Earth these species helps to sustain life with the necessary protein. Monitoring our oceans such as shipping of the ocean and lake-dependent industries we provide them with helpful information to make better informed decisions on the long-term success and consistent monitoring the oceans’ understanding of its role and to improve its sanitation. There are many oceans and lakes in many integral parts of the Earth’s system which includes weather and climate changes (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 2008). From the effects of human activities on the ecosystems that have made an impact on creating more pollutants in the marine environment, scientists now have network of buoys, tidal stations, and satellite to measure the stats on the ocean and Great Lakes of its state of status, they have used this type of information to raised serious questions of dynamics behind climate change using combined data of weather and climate data (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 2008). Upon exploring the unknown ocean while using and developing advanced technology for discoveries of new undersea habitats, communities, species, phenomena and greater understanding of ecosystems. As for the weather the NOAA monitors the climate change to the weather due to global warming also, also monitors the sun to the seas, the National Weather Service provides local and regional forecasts, and emergency alerts for severe storms, tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, extreme heat, fire threats, and tsunamis. Their job is to plan for response to climate variability and change focused on providing a predictive understanding of the global climate system. And the short-term climate fluctuations and provides information on the effects of climate patterns can have on the nation (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 2008). Coasts have rich living and non-living marine resources which can sustain the prosperity and economic growth nationwide it has encompassed the oceans and coasts, bays, estuaries and the Great Lakes as these numbers will start to continue to grow. They protect the preserves, and manage and restores and enhances the nation’s coastal resources and ecosystems along the United States shoreline stretching to a distance of 95,439 miles (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 2008).
Up to date information, as a result of emissions from fossil-fuel burning, and a carbon cycle model computes the time evolution of atmospheric CO2 as the residual between emissions and uptake by land and ocean. As in concern for the global carbon cycle, nonetheless, it was intimately embedded in the physical climate system and tightly interconnected with human activities; it was the consequence of the climate, the carbon cycle, and humans are linked in a network of feedbacks, of which only those between the physical climate system and the carbon cycle. According to the Hadley Centre Model, the carbon-climate feedback reaches 980 parts per million, leading to an average near-surface warming of +5 Kelvin, while the IPSL model attains only 780 parts per million and a warming of + 3 Kelvin. This can be traced to the higher sensitivity of the land carbon cycle to warming in the Hadley Centre model, and to the larger ocean uptake in the IPSL model. The interactions of the physical climate system with the global carbon cycle, as for example, the emissions from land use changes are prescribed as an external input, and the associated changes in land cover are not explicitly modeled. They are at risk of losing large amounts of carbon to the atmosphere as a result of changing climate and the human drivers. The increasing fossil-fuel emissions and their redistribution of the three major reservoirs of the global carbon cycle from 1920 to 2100 as risen dramatically as read in the Earth’s system models. Carbon pools may be vulnerable during this century, the total amount of carbon stored in these pools is very large, 2 to 5 times large then the current atmosphere. The consequence would be a major increase in atmospheric CO2 and hence a severe reduction of the anthropogenic CO2 emissions permitted, if the atmosphere is not to exceed a certain target CO2 concentration. There is a belief of the majority of the feedbacks within the carbon-climate-human system are positive, it was also believed it also lead to an acceleration of the greenhouse gas-induced climate change. The present day global carbon cycle and its anthropogenic CO2 perturbation, scientists have the understanding of how the carbon cycle will evolve in the 21st century. It is projected a mean warning of 1.3 degrees Celsius for the mid-21st century in the range of years in the year 2021 thru 2050 which is relative to the 1961 to 1990 average, with a range from + 0.8 degrees Celsius to + 1.7 degrees Celsius. The effect of sulphate aerosols whiles the effect from greenhouses gases alone would be about 0.3 degrees Celsius higher. The mean global surface temperature is projected to increase by 3.0 degrees Celsius with a range from 1.3 degrees Celsius to 4.5 degrees Celsius. During the general pattern of warming is somewhat uniform across a large range of models and generally consists of maximum warming at high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere and the Southern Ocean as the minimum. A slowing of deforestation has the same effect as a decrease in fossil emissions or an increase in land or ocean sink (Field, Raupach, 2004).
The net contribution to atmospheric CO2 can be positive or negative and a cooling effect that may be larger than the warming related to the CO2 release. The postglacial warming of about 5 degrees Kelvin occurred over 10,000 years, on the other hand, global warming over the next century might result in a similar temperature change, but over in a timescale over 100 years. When this climate perturbation is starting to be likely to occur at a rate exceeding the capacity of a plant species to adapt resulting in a total rearrangement of species and communities, as this change is resulting in transient carbon loss but can be recovered over time. In the Northern Hemisphere may lead to a warming to a forest dieback at the southern boundaries of presently forested regions. In certain cases of spring and fall temperatures have been increasing may extend the growing season of temperate and boreal ecosystems, in such cases, invasive species could spread in these regions. As for the tropics, warming increased aridity may lead to a size reduction of the tropical forests. Soil carbon is by far the largest carbon pool in the terrestrial ecosystems (Field, Raupach, 2004). The climate drivers include temperature effects on carbon and other greenhouse gases mainly CH4 fluxes including changes in hydrology can have pronounced effects on both carbon and greenhouse gas fluxes as for the temperature increases stimulate both CO2 and methane emissions have changes in the water table while the contrasting effects on those two fluxes. The global warming potential of methane is about 20 times larger than that of CO2; otherwise a change in the ratio of methane CO2 respiration will have a climate impact. Current climate models have tended to show the warming of the surface ocean, together with a decrease in high latitude salinity as a result of increased precipitation. Will lead to a reduction in the surface ocean density relative to that of the underlying waters, thereby increasing vertical stratification and what will this mean that the atmosphere climate will dramatically change in effects of severe storms, multiple tornadoes, and hurricanes forming over land, ice storms, and other natural disaster weathers that hasn’t been experienced. The effect is to change global warming is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere, for instance, as the uses of fossil-fuel to run our cars which releases as more carbon into the atmosphere. In reducing this chance is very impossible, we cannot get off the use of automobiles in releasing more carbon into the atmosphere (Field, Raupach, 2004).

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Hezbollah relief versus Katrina relief.

I’m a fanatic of supercell thunderstorms and tornadoes, it’s like an thing that i am hooked onto. I’ve started having the hobbies of watching tornadoes back when i first got my 1st computer when i was 12 years old, we had dial up back then but i used to watch storm chaser’s tornado videos like all day. I’m 19 years old right and i have a laptop and i keep a bunch of photos and videos that i shot of thunderstorms when it rolled through my town and i would upload it to youtube for sharing, i have dsl now. But would any wife would let their husband have this kind of hobby ? Sometimes during a severe thunderstorm warning or tornado watch i would go outside and snap photos of the clouds before it rained. I don’t know if any wives ever accept this kind of hobby. Would an hobby of something like this will ever get into a way of a relationship ? I consider myself as one of these guys who dedicate their lives photographing storms.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfUONDwZ8oI

Newspaper circulation fell 2.6 percent in the six-month period ending in March, according to recently released data, as the industry continued to struggle with competition from other media outlets and the Internet. They have all the reasons one could ever want or not want to hear. My family and friends and I believe it is for reasons no one has addressed or for that matter will address. It is the same tired story the guy in the pouring rain “the hurricane is getting closer”; the snow, the shoot out, theft or murder. Today’s media would never have survived a day with the media of old. They do not want to do news they do not want to get dirty or look under a rock. It either cost too much or in the long run it could cost them. Recently I suggested our tired rag of a paper report on modern snake oil men. That is businesses who are legal but don’t tell you everything. For example we all have seen the ad where the company offers to take over your insurance settlement that is being paid you in installments paying you a one time buy out. What they are not telling you is many times you only get 50% of your settlement. The income tax preparer who offers you a quick loan many times at 40%. The company that gives you a quick loan on your cars title (the military have placed them off limits) if you do not pay it ALL back the remainder is penalized 150% each day. The companies who advertise no interest or payments on your furniture for two years. Then on the first day it is due if the entire amount is not paid penalties are added for each month you could have been paying. News? Certainly is and is helping the public many of which do not understand matters like this and count on the government to protect them. Do you agree?

Everybody is predicting an very active hurricane season. The are predicting 13 to 17 named storms 7 to 10 Hurricanes and 3-5 Major Hurricanes. What are your predictions? Who do you think might get it this year
Gulf Coast-Texas to Florida West Coast
Florida East Coast to Virginia
New Jersey to New ENgland

Situation:
Building in path ofTornado/Hurricane.

Building designed and built:
Walls and roof that are blow-out proof.

Does that change the dynamics of the doors and windows from blowing in to blowing out?
The building walls and roof holds together, doesn’t move an inch inward or outward. The roof and walls of the building remains solidly in place.

Do the windows and doors that blow inward in buildings where the walls and roof blows outward or inward, change directions when the walls and roof don’t move?

We were thinking of staying in Airlie Beach however we have been reading about cyclones, stingers, and general bad weather. Is there anywhere where we could stay where we could see the Great Barrier Reef and not we affected by these things (since it’s so huge)? Also any good budget accomodation? We are travelling with 4 adults and one baby. Thanks
Or do you have any ideas of other great places to go (coastal)? We would be flying from Melbourne and budget is a priority.

We’re about to have a hurricane, which means we might be without water. I know that you can manually fill a toilet to get it to flush, but do you put the water in the bowl or the tank?

SUBIDO ORIGINALMENTE POR ROYMANO3

Is that legal? I can’t imagine anyone subjecting animals to the sun, rain, wind, storms, and snow. It is 95* and in the winter it can get below freezing. All animals should have a place to get in out of the weather. What can I do?
I live in Tennessee

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2009/04/texas-run-secessionist-guv-has-received-federal-disaster-relief-more-times-any-state
Is it that Perry like a lot of other conservative Republicans like to delude themselves into believing that the federal government only hurts them and not helps them even though they keep on asking the federal government for help when disasters happen ?
Invisible, read the link then you will understand. That’s why I put it there.
I think some of you have taken for granted the benefits of living in a union for too long. You’re ingrates.

Last year the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association predicted 13-16 named storms, 8-10 minor to medium hurricanes, and 5 major hurricanes to make landfall or have a considerable affect on the U.S., obviously this statement was waaay off and as a result every organization that predicts the hurricane season is downsizing their predictions.

I understand that the field of meteorology has merit and is not any sort of pseudoscience, but can climatology really be considered actual science after so many errors in the calculation of data? Even the prediction for when the ozone layer will repair itself is all over the place and continuously changing. Does the fact that most data gathered in the field of climatology is based on simple computer simulations of complex scenarios make anyone skeptic on whether they can be trusted for true and reliable data?

Can we truly predict and simulate a system as complex as the weather and the environment? Consider Chaos theory.
OK! PLEASE PEOPLE:
METEOROLOGIST DOES NOT MEAN CLIMATOLOGIST!!!! METEOROLOGIST = WEATHERMAN, CLIMATOLOGIST = LONG-TERM FORCASTER OF WORLD CLIMATE SHIFT

PLEASE DO NOT MAKE THE MISTAKE OF THINKING I CRITICIZE WEATHER FORCASTERS!!!!

Post the hockey player that you think is the hottest and a link to a picture of him…
i think most sexy are
1.
chad Larose … from the Carolina Hurricanes
http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/players/3324

2.Henrik Zetterberg from Detroit Red Wings
http://blog.mlive.com/snapshots/2007/10/zetterbergmodel.jpg

who is yours???

I live in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and we are supposed to get a hurricane. For me it would be 4 or 5. Category 3 or lower, you can ride that out.

Category One Hurricane:
Winds 74-95 mph (64-82 kt or 119-153 km/hr). Storm surge generally 4-5 ft above normal. No real damage to building structures. Damage primarily to unanchored mobile homes, shrubbery, and trees. Some damage to poorly constructed signs. Also, some coastal road flooding and minor pier damage. Hurricane Lili of 2002 made landfall on the Louisiana coast as a Category One hurricane. Hurricane Gaston of 2004 was a Category One hurricane that made landfall along the central South Carolina coast.

Category Two Hurricane:
Winds 96-110 mph (83-95 kt or 154-177 km/hr). Storm surge generally 6-8 feet above normal. Some roofing material, door, and window damage of buildings. Considerable damage to shrubbery and trees with some trees blown down. Considerable damage to mobile homes, poorly constructed signs, and piers. Coastal and low-lying escape routes flood 2-4 hours before arrival of the hurricane center. Small craft in unprotected anchorages break moorings. Hurricane Frances of 2004 made landfall over the southern end of Hutchinson Island, Florida as a Category Two hurricane. Hurricane Isabel of 2003 made landfall near Drum Inlet on the Outer Banks of North Carolina as a Category 2 hurricane.

Category Three Hurricane:
Winds 111-130 mph (96-113 kt or 178-209 km/hr). Storm surge generally 9-12 ft above normal. Some structural damage to small residences and utility buildings with a minor amount of curtainwall failures. Damage to shrubbery and trees with foliage blown off trees and large trees blown down. Mobile homes and poorly constructed signs are destroyed. Low-lying escape routes are cut by rising water 3-5 hours before arrival of the center of the hurricane. Flooding near the coast destroys smaller structures with larger structures damaged by battering from floating debris. Terrain continuously lower than 5 ft above mean sea level may be flooded inland 8 miles (13 km) or more. Evacuation of low-lying residences with several blocks of the shoreline may be required. Hurricanes Jeanne and Ivan of 2004 were Category Three hurricanes when they made landfall in Florida and in Alabama, respectively.

Category Four Hurricane:
Winds 131-155 mph (114-135 kt or 210-249 km/hr). Storm surge generally 13-18 ft above normal. More extensive curtainwall failures with some complete roof structure failures on small residences. Shrubs, trees, and all signs are blown down. Complete destruction of mobile homes. Extensive damage to doors and windows. Low-lying escape routes may be cut by rising water 3-5 hours before arrival of the center of the hurricane. Major damage to lower floors of structures near the shore. Terrain lower than 10 ft above sea level may be flooded requiring massive evacuation of residential areas as far inland as 6 miles (10 km). Hurricane Charley of 2004 was a Category Four hurricane made landfall in Charlotte County, Florida with winds of 150 mph. Hurricane Dennis (pdf) of 2005 struck the island of Cuba as a Category Four hurricane.

Category Five Hurricane:
Winds greater than 155 mph (135 kt or 249 km/hr). Storm surge generally greater than 18 ft above normal. Complete roof failure on many residences and industrial buildings. Some complete building failures with small utility buildings blown over or away. All shrubs, trees, and signs blown down. Complete destruction of mobile homes. Severe and extensive window and door damage. Low-lying escape routes are cut by rising water 3-5 hours before arrival of the center of the hurricane. Major damage to lower floors of all structures located less than 15 ft above sea level and within 500 yards of the shoreline. Massive evacuation of residential areas on low ground within 5-10 miles (8-16 km) of the shoreline may be required. Only 3 Category Five Hurricanes have made landfall in the United States since records began: The Labor Day Hurricane of 1935, Hurricane Camille (1969), and Hurricane Andrew in August, 1992. The 1935 Labor Day Hurricane struck the Florida Keys with a minimum pressure of 892 mb–the lowest pressure ever observed in the United States. Hurricane Camille struck the Mississippi Gulf Coast causing a 25-foot storm surge, which inundated Pass Christian. Hurricane Katrina (pdf), a category 5 storm over the Gulf of Mexico, was still responsible for at least 81 billion dollars of property damage when it struck the U.S. Gulf Coast as a category 3. It is by far the costliest hurricane to ever strike the United States. In addition, Hurricane Wilma (pdf) of 2005 was a Category Five hurricane at peak intensity and is the strongest Atlantic tropical cyclone on record with a minimum pressure of 882 mb.

I love cheetos puffs.

Also check this out. I am in the Red Jacket. This is hilarous!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NG7G0pe0_w

Courtesy of tropical storm fay.

Raw Footage of Hurricane Ike in Downtown Beaumont

I have a 8 month english mastiff that use to be inside the house all the time but a everytime we leave for about 3 hours or so when we come back everything in our room is destroyed are photo albums, shoes even picture frames are room looked as if a tornado was in our room.. so then we thought maybe she feels lonely or needs someone with her so we started putting her out with are other dog outside which they get a long great and play all day… then we leave and when we come back she destroys the back yard and chews on everything out there including there bed and she find a way to go in to are storage room and takes everything out and chews on it. she has plenty of space in the backyard to play and has plenty of chewing toys. What can I do?
I tried playing with my dog but she just lays down and doesnt seem interested or sometimes theres family over and we all try playing with her but she seems to be scared or shy because she goes hide or starts shaking.