Following the tornado that struck Pampa, Texas on June 8, 1995, a second and larger tornado develops just outside town and tracks northeast toward Hoover. Veteran storm chaser and cinematographer Martin Lisius captures this F5 monster as it narrowly misses the Jordan Unit Prison. Note the prison watch towers where guards look on in terror. This tornado was so powerful, it stripped asphalt from local highways. Footage is copyrighted and available for license from StormStock (www.stormstock.com).

Roger Hill and crew put a camera in the path of an oncoming cow, and a tornado. Roger’s incredible book “Hunting Nature’s Fury” is available at www.wildernesspress.com.

Here is some footage of waves crashing ashore at Sandy Hook, New Jersey. These waves were generated by long period swells from Hurricane Earl, a Category Four Hurricane well to the south at the time.

Volcanoes, Earthquakes & any kind of flood, if you’re caught up in natural disasters like these you could be in trouble!

But what of the Tropical Cyclonic storm?

I believe there’s a way we CAN BEAT NATURE!

How?

With architecture - with what I’ve euphemistically called TELESCOPIC BUILDINGS!
See this clip:- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E06cNv55jTs - Have you finished laughing yet?
The main building in this clip - called Marineville http://stingray.sfdaydreams.com/
(scroll to bottom) along with other models in the classic kids hit TV show are able to move up and down beneath the ground.

With properly watertight hatches couldn’t this be the answer to hurricanes and typhoons?

Isn’t the real challenge though, to ’scale’ the whole thing up & create designs we can economically mass produce? After all, we’ve been using lifts IN buildings for a very long time now - can’t we take it a step further & somehow actually make buildings INTO LIFTS to save lives during storms?
One interesting answer so far:-

1. The mass of the buildings could be solved with scale. I.E. R+D should be started with say, a small ground floor apartment.

2. As to the speed of the lifts - surely that would be dependent on gearing and similar type factors - and does it have to be fast? Normally there’s some sort of warning of a storm, which gives ‘preparation’ time that people already use now, when they nail down boards over their windows etc., thus enabling building descent time.
3. The weight issue, it seemed to me that alot of the elevating platforms featured in the various Gerry Anderson puppet shows did have a basis in fact, just needing the right kind of R+D associated with problems of scale.

3. As to anchoring a buiding securely - I have seen programmes on the TV where whole buildings have been relocated - the R+D starts there!

4. As to the water table issue - if the ‘basement’ walls and floor were made of concrete, surely this would give the necessary integrity!

Here is additional footage of the wave action from Sandy Hook, New Jersey. The waves were being generated by swells from Hurricane Earl, which at one point on Thursday morning, had winds of 145 mph, and a minimum central pressure of 932 millibars. Earl has since weakened to a Category Two Hurricane as it moves up the Eastern Seaboard.

Here is some more footage of the wave action from Sandy Hook, New Jersey. This is the third and final installment of the video taken. The waves were being generated by swells from Hurricane Earl, which at one point on Thursday morning, had winds of 145 mph, and a minimum central pressure of 932 millibars. Earl has since weakened to a Category Two Hurricane as it moves up the Eastern Seaboard.

8/31/2006 Tropical Storm Ernesto footage from Carolina Beach, NC. Footage of Tropical Storm Ernesto making land fall at Carolina Beach during the overnight hours. Catalog #: TS_Ernesto_01_MR Screen Format: 4:3 Video Format: Standard Definition License Type: Rights Managed To license this footage, contact www.StormChasingVideo.com

B-Roll footage of Tropical Storm Ernesto making landfall at Carolina Beach, NC during the overnight hours. Footage of high winds and power transformers shorting out. Catalog #: TS_Ernesto_02_WC Screen Format: 4:3 Video Format: Standard Definition License Type: Rights Managed To license this footage, contact www.StormChasingVideo.com

B-Roll footage of Tropical Storm Ernesto moving into the Carolina Beach, NC area during the afternoon and evening hours. Daylight footage of large waves and heavy rains. Catalog #: TS_Ernesto_01_WC Screen Format: 4:3 Video Format: Standard Definition License Type: Rights Managed To license this footage, contact www.StormChasingVideo.com

Will these storms be bring this oil inland, ruining our ecology?

Global Warming is highly debated, although it is obvious that climates are changing. The debate however is the cause of this climatic shift. Is it due to the event known as Global Warming or is it a purely natural phenomena? Generally, Global Warming is defined as the concept that mankind is influencing a rapid increase in greenhouse gases in the Earth’s atmosphere, especially carbon dioxide. The theory is the phenomena known as Global warming will melt the ice caps and be the cause of more rapid and more extreme weather and natural disasters.

From what data I have seen, Carbon Dioxide is up approximately 1% in the past century; Temperature is up by approximately 1 degree Fahrenheit and natural disasters remain an average constant.

Personal experience, however, is proving to show more mild winters, cooler summers and generally mild storms. True, there were hurricanes and tsunamis in the years passed, but they were mere anomalies of normal storms taking a slightly different path.
Climate does seem to be shifting indeed, however, there were Ice Ages in the past following massive Heat Waves according to predictions. Seems to me, it may just be part of a natural cycle of Earth. That’s not to say we shouldn’t try to limit our destruction of balance, but there’s no reason to believe we’ve completely destroyed climates as well.
I forgot to also mention the credibility of the data of the past century or before is also arguable. The country believed to have the most reliable data is the US, however, readings were often done by simple mercury thermometers before the age of electronics.

What areas of Florida are considered safest for residents with respect to being relatively free of hurricanes? Someone mentioned Tallahassee as being a good place to live. What are your opinions with respect to a good place for families in terms of safety and cost of living but unlikely to have to board up windows and drive north due to storms.

VIDEO: Tornado Caught on Tape in Loves Park, IL

I just read an article online that says Colorado State University experts still predict up to 18 named storms this hurricane season with at least 10 hurricanes. I live in Miami and so I watch the tropics carefully. I am no expert but it seems to me that any tropical system that tries to develop gets destroyed by wind shear and saharan dust from Africa. This is what happened with Bonnie and Colin.
So why this prediction when conditions seem to hostile for tropical development. And its August already!
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So many times on this site we hear the global warming believers whine that they are held to a higher standard then the so-called "skeptics".

Should they be? Or is this complaint due to a basic lack of understanding about how science works, most likely the symptom of "Degrees for Sale from the Internet"?

With science, one flawed prediction indicates that the premise of the science is wrong. If I state that X will cause Y to happen, and the opposite of Y happens, then X is false. No other way to look at the data.

So if the AGW alarmists say that so-called "Global Warming" will cause a pandemic of SARS, or increased number and strength of Hurricanes and Tornadoes, or cause snow to become a rare occurrence, and if there is no pandemic, storms decrease in numbers and strength, and snowfalls surpass record amounts, then the theory that these statements were made on are false.

However if a so-called "skeptic" makes a false statement, this doesn’t prove "Global Warming" is happening.

Is this concept just that difficult to understand?

Is it the current sorry state of today’s education that allows people to keep on believing is "Global Warming"?

Or is it that most believers are just "Internet Scientists" with degrees bought and paid for from on line correspondence classes?

One of the dangers of tornados and hurricanes is the rapid drop in air pressure that is associated with such storms. Assume that the air pressure inside of a sealed house is 1.02 atm when a hurricane hits. The hurricane rapidly decreases the external air pressure to 0.910 atm. What net force (directed outwards) is exerted on a 1.25-m square window on the house?

VIDEO: Tornado Room 4pm 11/11/2010

How does the dew point effect the probability of storms in the Gulf area? Considering the fact that the water temperatures in my area are still slightly lower than other areas and atmospheric pressure is somewhat elevated here how long can I expect the weather to remain basically calm? That is to say how quickly can an area of high pressure become an area of low pressure drawing a storm to my area? And should I concern myself in any way with the dew point in attempting to watch weather patterns when a storm begins to approach the gulf area? Also how likely is it that a tropical depression can form RIGHT off the coast of Africa and continue on to the gulf area? Would such a depression be more likely to lose energy while traversing such a great distance.

Hi this just fun video we put together to give folks idea what happen on group with people! ..DANNY BECOMING ABSORBED BY A DEVELOPING FRONTAL LOW PRESSURE AREA OVER THE CAROLIN’S…ADVISORIES COULD BE DISCONTINUED THIS MORNING… A TROPICAL STORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE NORTH CAROLINA COAST FROM CAPE LOOKOUT NORTHWARD TO DUCK…INCLUDING THE PAMLICO AND ALBEMARLE SOUNDS. A TROPICAL STORM WATCH MEANS THAT TROPICAL STORM CONDITIONS ARE POSSIBLE WITHIN THE WATCH AREA…IN THIS CASE… WITHIN 12 HOURS. THIS WATCH WILL LIKELY BE DISCONTINUED LATER THIS MORNING. INTERESTS ELSEWHERE FROM THE CAROLINAS NORTHWARD TO NEW ENGLAND AND THE CANADIAN MARITIMES SHOULD MONITOR THE PROGRESS OF DANNY. FOR STORM INFORMATION SPECIFIC TO YOUR AREA IN THE UNITED STATES…INCLUDING POSSIBLE INLAND WATCHES AND WARNINGS…PLEASE MONITOR PRODUCTS ISSUED BY YOUR LOCAL NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE. FOR STORM INFORMATION SPECIFIC TO YOUR AREA OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES…PLEASE MONITOR PRODUCTS ISSUED BY YOUR NATIONAL METEOROLOGICAL SERVICE. A RECONNAISSANCE PLANE IS INVESTIGATING DANNY AND PRELIMINARY REPORTS INDICATE THAT CYCLONE IS BECOMING ABSORBED BY A FRONTAL LOW OVER THE CAROLINAS. AT 200 AM EDT…0600 UTC…THE CENTER OF THE BROAD AREA OF LOW PRESSURE ASSOCIATED WITH TROPICAL STORM DANNY WAS ESTIMATED NEAR LATITUDE 32.6 NORTH…LONGITUDE 75.2 WEST OR ABOUT 190 MILES…300 KM…SOUTH OF CAPE HATTERAS NORTH CAROLINA AND ABOUT 665 MILES…1075 KM…SOUTH-SOUTHWEST OF NANTUCKET …

Alrighty, I’ll be creating topics within the next few months basically every time something stronger than a tropical wave (storms or hurricanes) poses a serious threat to Barbados. I might do it also within the other Caribbean countries depending on how much i like the particular island.

I’m not a meteorologist nor am i a God. So please listen to bulletins regular along and our local meteorologist. The info i put up is subject to errors and flaws and is not intended to be used as a safety bible. I’m however gonna interpret what i see on weather maps, computer simulators, provide links and give the best possible advice i could.

I’ll advice everyone though to find out who’s in charge of your zoning area for the district emergency organisations just incase of an emergency you would know where to go and who to contact..

Also Subscribing to www.barbadosweather.org a good idea it sends u live updates of when the island is under a flood watch, hurricane watch etc and it also sends you updates every time the weather changes. *which is pretty damn regular* so beware of alot of emails.

It’s an informative post so if anyone have any questions feel free to ask me.
Nice article Adela
To voting it goes!!!

It was predicted to be an above average year but so far there has been only one hurricane and a few depressions/storms. Also, the waters are supposed to be really warm and LA NINA is developing. All this should be great for hurricane formation. Why such a slow start?

How do cold fronts produce stormy weather?

A.Warm moist air ahead of the front is uplifted as the front passes, causing the moisture to condense and precipitate.
B.Cold air behind the front causes the water vapor to evaporate, producing the storm.
C.The warm air mixes with the cold air along the front, creating low pressure and storms.
D.The cold air holds more water vapor than the warm air, thus it must precipitate out as rain or snow.

What is a wave cyclone?
A.It is a type of cold frontal uplift that occurs in waves along a squall line.
B.It is the rise in sea level of the water underneath a hurricane.
C.It is a spiraling storm system at the boundary between the polar air and the warm mid-latitude air.
D.It is the process of storm development over the mountains as air is uplifted by the mountain slopes.

And all the plumes of oil get steered around like a huge salad dressing?You know that many of the oil clean up product that have been turned down you can’t retrieve the oil back out of it like a sponge.BP is hoping to still retrieve the oil and us it.When the hurricanes come that will be impossible.Think about this,a hurricane will suck this stuff up and disperse it over land.By Auguste comes it will be a rill big mess and the storms will hamper the use of the relief wells being used.

Joe Bastardi and the NHC are calling for like 20 storms to develop this year and a very increased threat of a major hurricane landfall on the US. But could this just be hype and only 1-9 storms develop and stay off land and become fish storms like last years season? Knowing J.B., its hype but idk about the NHC

Is anybody worried about this years hurricane season? Possibly up to 23 hurricanes? It worrys me because it gives the whole gulf coast a greater risk of getting hit by a hurricane. It’s crazy. Ive been thinking about buying hurricane supplies now to be better prepared. I live in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and I wasen’t prepared for Gustav at all and wasent too worried as it was a landfalling category 2. It ended up being the worst storm to ever hit Baton Rouge and I lost most of my roof in that storm, Along with my bathroom window and the pine trees in my yard. Should I start preparing now for possible storms this year? What are yall doing?