What are some of the jobs that involves investigating natural disasters. I want to know jobs that involve investigating hurricanes, tornadoes and cyclones. Like a meteroligist. PLEASE DONT SAY A STORM CHASER. something scientific. Thanks.

Look at how many people are committing sins
and taking God out of School and all.

Passing gay marriage, oops can I say that?

We got bad weather - Cyclone, Tornadoes in the South, Earthquake in China… I didn’t know China can get Earthquake.
Gas prices are going up.
Food and Stamp

.HANNA EXITING THE REGION BUT CAUSING SIGNIFICANT LOW LEVEL
SHEARING TO PRODUCE POSSIBLE TORNADOES…

AT 619 PM EDT…NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
LINE OF ROTATING SHOWERS SPINNING AROUND THE CENTER OF TROPICAL
STORM HANNA. AT 5 PM…THE CENTER OF HANNA WAS LOCATED OVER
SOUTHWEST SUSSEX COUNTY DELAWARE. NORTH OF HANNA…THE SHOWERS WERE
ROTATING COUNTERCLOCKWISE AND THE INTERACTION WITH THE LAND IS
CAUSING SIGNIFICANT LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE AND SHEAR TO PRODUCE
ROTATING SHOWERS THAT COULD PRODUCE SHORT LIVED VORTEX CENTERS OR
FUNNEL CLOUDS.

THESE ARE SHORT LIVED EVENTS AND IN SOME CASES VERY DIFFICULT TO
LOCATE ON RADAR. IF YOU SEE ANY SUSPICIOUS CLOUDS TAKE SHELTER
IMMEDIATELY.

I read it, and don’t get what they want us to do. Prepare for a tornado?

Question 10 (Multiple Choice Worth 2 points)

Which of the following would protect against a flood?

Homes/Shelter

Dams

Sirens

TV

Question 11 (Multiple Choice Worth 2 points)

A hurricane is getting stronger if

The pressure in the eye is increasing

The pressure in the eye is remaining the same

The pressure in the eye is dropping

It is impossible to tell

Question 15 (Multiple Choice Worth 2 points)

How does the jet stream influence global weather?

The jet stream moves weather from one place to another.

Thunderstorms are produced by the jet stream.

Hurricanes are produced by the jet stream.

Tornadoes are produced by the jet stream.

Question 21 (Multiple Choice Worth 2 points)

Which of the following is a benefit of the atmosphere?

The atmosphere provides us with water to drink.

The atmosphere provides the soil with nutrients.

The atmosphere provides warmth.

The atmosphere provides food.

Question 22 (Multiple Choice Worth 2 points)

How does the ocean influence global weather patterns?

Places that are located near the ocean are warmer.

Places that are located near the ocean are colder.

Places that are located near the ocean have a more constant temperature throughout the year.

The ocean does not affect the global weather.

The affects of CO2 not just cause global climate chaos. they are turning our skies and seas into acid. Global warming and climate change deniers are seeling our doom. Support the Democratic majority and vote less emmissions, support cap and trade.

On the science side. There is a lot of data now that not only points to environmental distaters like flooding, hurricanes, tornadoes, freezes, drought, disease….but the slies and sees will turn to acid like they are now.
How can Stanford University be wrong????
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-12/ci-cru121007.php

The UK royal academy of sciences:

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/cut-emissions-or-acidity-will-kill-coral-reefs-scientists-say-1693840.html

University of Queensland:

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,24564720-30417,00.html?from=public_rss

And on and on.

Wake up!!!!!

middle-latitude cyclones
hurricanes
tropical storms
tornadoes

Question 10 (Multiple Choice Worth 2 points)

Which of the following would protect against a flood?

Homes/Shelter

Dams

Sirens

TV

Question 11 (Multiple Choice Worth 2 points)

A hurricane is getting stronger if

The pressure in the eye is increasing

The pressure in the eye is remaining the same

The pressure in the eye is dropping

It is impossible to tell

Question 15 (Multiple Choice Worth 2 points)

How does the jet stream influence global weather?

The jet stream moves weather from one place to another.

Thunderstorms are produced by the jet stream.

Hurricanes are produced by the jet stream.

Tornadoes are produced by the jet stream.

Question 21 (Multiple Choice Worth 2 points)

Which of the following is a benefit of the atmosphere?

The atmosphere provides us with water to drink.

The atmosphere provides the soil with nutrients.

The atmosphere provides warmth.

The atmosphere provides food.

Question 22 (Multiple Choice Worth 2 points)

How does the ocean influence global weather patterns?

Places that are located near the ocean are warmer.

Places that are located near the ocean are colder.

Places that are located near the ocean have a more constant temperature throughout the year.

The ocean does not affect the global weather.

Just to let you all know about this potential severe weather outbreak. Tornadoes are likely today into tonight.
THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER IN NORMAN OK IS FORECASTING THE
DEVELOPMENT OF WIDESPREAD DAMAGING WINDS AND A FEW STRONG TORNADOES
OVER PARTS OF THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY THIS AFTERNOON AND
TONIGHT.

THE AREAS MOST LIKELY TO EXPERIENCE THIS ACTIVITY INCLUDE

SOUTHEASTERN ARKANSAS
LOUISIANA
MISSISSIPPI

THERE IS ALSO A RISK OF OTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS TEXAS
EASTWARD INTO ALABAMA…MIDDLE TENNESSE AND SOUTHERN KENTUCKY.

A POWERFUL UPPER LEVEL LOW…LOCATED IN WESTERN TEXAS THIS MORNING
…IS FORECAST TO LIFT NORTHEASTWARD INTO NORTHERN ARKANSAS TONIGHT.
THIS SYSTEM WILL AID IN PUSHING A COLD FRONT EWD ACROSS THE LOWER MS
VALLEY REGION LATER TODAY AND TONIGHT.

This is the time to prepare make sure you have a plan to take shelter for a tornado. Make sure you keep a NOAA alert radio with you.
IF you live in these areas make sure you keep up with the weather.

National weather service
http://www.nws.noaa.gov

Storm prediction center.

http://www.spc.noaa.gov

More than 30 tornadoes were reported across four states as April marks the beginning of tornado season. Dave Price reports.

Please use this numbering system fro your answers.

1) Are hurricanes more likely in the Gulf?
2) Are they as dangerous as tornadoes? Earthquakes?
3) What is a hurricane like?
4) Do people that live in beach-side cities freak out when one is going to hit them, or is it like a normal storm?
5) What is a hurricane like (gulf coast Florida)?
6) Do they ALL destroy everything in their path?
1) are hurricanes more likely in the Gulf or the Atlantic coast?

The Birmingham Tornado was a tornadic event that occurred on April 8, 1998 striking the western part of Jefferson County, Alabama, near Birmingham, and continuing into neighboring St. Clair County. It was part of a larger outbreak that started on April 6 across the Great Plains and ended on April 9 across the Carolinas and Georgia. A total of 62 tornadoes touched down from the Middle Atlantic States to the Midwestern United States and Texas. The Birmingham Tornado was one of only two F5 tornadoes that year. The other hit in Lawrence County, Tennessee on April 16, as part of the same outbreak as the Nashville tornadoes. The tornado outbreak was responsible for at least 41 deaths including 7 in Georgia and 34 in Alabama. Tuscaloosa County tornado (F3) The worst of the outbreak started around 7:00 PM CDT when a supercell originating from Mississippi entered Pickens and Tuscaloosa Counties. It produced an F3 and traveled north of the city of Tuscaloosa. Two injuries were reported and five homes and 11 mobile homes were destroyed from this storm that traveled over 17 miles (27 km) from Holman to north of Northport. 24 homes and 13 mobile homes were also damaged Jefferson County tornado (F5) Shortly after 7:30 PM, the supercell spawned the Birmingham Tornado as a wall cloud. It touched down in extreme eastern Tuscaloosa County and then cut a 31-mile long (49 km), 3/4-mile wide swath through nine Birmingham suburbs with F3 to F5 damage including Oak Grove, Sylvan Springs, Rock …

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

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

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

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

Aftermath video from the north side of the city of Kirksville, MO in the Lakeside Estates area. Footage of damaged and destroyed homes along with video around the Toyota dealership that was damaged. Catalog # 05132009tt_part3 Total Run Time: 05;04;06 Format: HD

I have a powerpoint to do about severe weather. I am trying to get these videos from YouTube of footage of hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, etc and my teacher wants proof that it can be used. She wants us to highlight and print off the Terms of Use page and show were we have the right to use these videos, clipart, photos, etc. Are all YouTube photos free to use? Can you show me where it says this? How can I save and upload them to my powerpoint? Thanks to everyone who helps OUT!

ok… my science teacher is pretty dumb.
i have been asked to do my homework with out the needed text book..

i really need the answers to these questions URGENTLY!!!!! ASAP!

1. at what time of the year is the risk of cyclones greatest. why?

2. some of the strongest north-west cyclones go almost unnoticed by the world outside the state, while significantly weaker tropical storms in other places such as florida or japan get much more news coverage. why is this?

3.why do cyclones always form over oceans?

4.how are cyclones different from tornadoes?

5.when and where do tornadoes occur in western australia?

6. most global warming models predidct that weather events in W.A will become more extreme. suggest what this will mean for cyclones and tornadoes.

if you could help me answer these questions i would be eternally greatful.
the work is very hard for me seeing as i am in year 9 and this is year 10 work.
the teacher has not even covered this chapter yet!!

any info that could help me is also appreciated if you feel uncomfortable giving away answers.
thanks!

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

i mean, the tornadoes in ontario they were fierce. 120 homes damaged, one eleven year old killed and many injured.. its like the world is getting worse as 2012 is only 3 years away !

yesterday, the sky was yellow too.
http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z92/Harrattan/IMG_2707.jpg
its amazing the view in the photo above was from my house.

http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z92/Harrattan/IMG_2742-1.jpg
there was also a sexy rainbow lol.

it seemed so apocalyptic yesterday.

All of the following characteristics are associated with cyclonic storms, such as hurricanes, tornadoes, and mid-latitude cyclones, except

clockwise movement in the Northern Hemisphere

low pressure

rising warm air

stormy weather

A violent F5 tornado develops near Kellerville, Texas on the evening of June 8, 1995. I’m joined on this chase by veteran storm chasers Bobby Prentice and Richard Thomas.

Does anyone officially know what the storm in Illinois (southern Illinois mostly) was classified?

In my area, just finding drinking water or gasoline was a serious issue. Most of us finally have power today. Many of us lost our stock and emergency supplies too in the clocked 108 mph winds. A huge oak tree from across the street uprooted and landed on top of our home, so we are staying at a motel in another county. The first night we camped out in our back yard with what we could find. I don’t know how many deters we made to find a road or highway that was clear after that first day.

I would like to know if anyone has an official name for this storm. On the radio, NOAA is saying it was a very rare occurance, but he seemed ambiguous on whether it was a straight line of tornadoes or an inland hurricane. He stated that it was as severe as a hurricane, but it also behaved as if it were tornadoes.

Weather Has Always Happened,
But Now It’s Political and It’s on the News
May 10, 2007

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RUSH: Yesterday I actually opened the program by asking if anybody had seen Algore or Laurie David conducting a press conference on the first subtropical storm out there, subtropical storm Andrea Mitchell — which, by the way, have you seen the latest forecast track? They’ve got it doing circles. It’s going to come close to making landfall a little south of Jacksonville. Now it’s not going to make landfall and it’s going to turn back out to sea. You watch. The thing is going to head our way before it’s all said and done. You just watch. Regardless, I was prescient once again. Laurie David shows up on PMSNBC this morning. Joe Scarborough is taking his shot at the morning show and Scarborough asking her about the Malibu fires, California fires, and she launched.

DAVID: I mean, do you believe what’s going on in this country weatherwise? I mean, are you guys talking about this? I mean, honestly, let me just ask you this here, okay? When you were growing up, do you remember that "severe weather" was a regular category every night on the evening news? Do you remember that?

RUSH: No. The reason was there was no political agenda behind the weather when we were growing up, Laurie. Now there’s a political agenda driving the weather. It’s called global warming. There are no such things as "weather phenomenon." It’s a sorry thing that happened in Greensburg, Kansas, but tornadoes happen. They’ve been happening long before we were born, Laurie, before we were kids, and so do hurricanes and they’ve been happening. There’s nothing that happens in weather that’s unique. Nothing that happens in weather that is unprecedented. It’s not possible. This planet has been around too long! How many billions and billions and billions of years have the planet been around? All of a sudden for us, during our lifetimes, all of a sudden things are happening that have never happened before? Oh, my God, and we’re the ones responsible! Oh, my God. We’re ruining the planet. Oh, no. Really? Oh, my God, we gotta do something! We need higher taxes. One square of toilet paper per bathroom visit. Why, we’ve got to change our light bulbs.

It’s absurd. It’s patently absurd.

I’m going to read something to you from our local paper here, the Palm Beach Post. This is about Tropical Storm Andrea Mitchell out there. I want to read the first couple of lines, and see if anything reaches out and grabs you. "Three weeks before hurricane guides appear in local grocery stores, subtropical storm Andrea [Mitchell] swirled off the north Florida coast Wednesday, a reminder that Mother Nature is in charge here. The first named May storm in more than a quarter century, Andrea [Mitchell], isn’t expected to strengthen much beyond its current 45-mile-per-hour winds and may not even strike land." What stands out at you in that sentence? Dawn, what stands out? No. See, this is how they do it. Dawn’s reaction: "It’s not going to strike land." No, what stands out is this: "The first named May storm in more than a quarter century." That means that 25 years ago there was one in May. There was a named storm prior to the June 1st hurricane season, 25 years ago. Twenty-five years ago they were warning us of global cooling, a new ice age. So, yeah, we got this thing out there, and the Laurie Davids of the world hype all over this and claim it’s a result of global warming — and, of course, man’s decadent lifestyle. But there’s nothing happening today in weather that has not happened before countless, countless other times.

More audio sound bites. Katie Couric, by the way, let me tell you what happened on this. Yesterday I also opened the show and I offered — because when I saw that the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric’s ratings are the lowest they’ve been since 1987, 20 years, I offered — myself as exclusive interview subject to Katie and the CBS Evening News. I’d do a live interview, in order to jack the ratings, because I’m Rush Limbaugh: I am ratings. I offered to help. CBS did call. 60 Minutes called. My old buddy from 60 Minutes who produced the first segment, the only one, the first one they did of me way back in the early ’90s, Bob Andersen, called and he said, "We’ll be happy to have Katie interview you for 60 Minutes and then run excerpts of that interview on the evening news."

We smiled. "Nice try, Bob. You’re a smart guy, but, no, the deal was I offer myself to Katie for the evening news: one shot, live interview," knowing full-well it will never happen, ladies and gentlemen, for a host of reasons, but among the reasons at the top is: Can you imagine if a live interview with me actually did jack the ratings? What would that say? We know that it would. We would make sure that it did, because I am Rush Limbaugh. I am ratings. Anyway, we have a sound bite from Katie on her CBS Evening News last night about all this "extreme weather."
COURIC: Already this month federal disasters have been declared in six states. By the way, don’t think nature has spared the rest of the world. Australia is dealing with its worst drought ever. Italy is also suffering through a drought. Meanwhile, usually dry parts of northern Africa have been hit with deadly rainstorms. And it seems almost biblical that 2007 is the Year of the Locust.

RUSH: Wait, it’s a newscast. How does that get thrown in? And it seems almost biblical? By the way, Katie, your audience doesn’t want to hear references to the Bible. Big no, no, don’t know who put that on the prompter. But somebody should have gotten it off of there. Now we have a montage from MSNBC’s Amy Robach, ABC’s Sam Champion, NBC’s Dawn Fratangelo and Matt Lauer on subtropical storm Andrea Mitchell.

ROBACH: We have a named storm three weeks before the season is even supposed to start.

CHAMPION: Tropical Storm Andrea is three weeks ahead of the hurricane season.

FRATANGELO: She’s called Andrea, arriving a full three weeks before the official start of hurricane season.

LAUER: The first named store is hovering offshore weeks before it should be there. Andrea only the 17th named storm in history to arrive before June 1st.

RUSH: Only the 17th? Only the 17th? Only the 17th? Why, that means there have been 16 named storms before the start of hurricane season before Andrea Mitchell. Well, that indicates some sign of tumult and chaos in the natural order of things out there. Only the 17th time in history. Now, not in history, in recorded history, because until we came along, the earth didn’t know that June 1st was the start of hurricane season. You think Mother Nature knew that June 1st was — do you think that Mother Nature even knows when it’s June? We call it June and we say hurricane season starts on June 1st. Look at Palm Beach. We’ve got turtle season starting on March 1st. They don’t show up until May 1st. You think the turtles know they’re supposed to be here in March because we’ve got a town council making an ordinance saying we gotta turn out the lights? I have an Abyssinian cat. Do you think my cat knows it’s an Abyssinian cat? In fact, do you think my cat even knows it’s a cat? I guarantee you my cat thinks it’s a person. Cats have staff. Dogs have masters. We invent all these terms, so the idea that there have been 17 named storms before hurricane season — did we get hurricane season in the 10 Commandments? Is there some proclamation from some higher power that says June 1st, anything that happens before that, something is wrong. Grow up, folks.
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RUSH: This is Rick in Malibu. Nice to have you, sir, and welcome to the EIB Network.

CALLER: Thanks, Rush. Thanks for having me on. I had to call because I started giggling a little bit about all this global warming hysteria. When you played that clip earlier of Laurie David connecting the Los Angeles wildfires, the one in Griffith Park to global warming, when the conventional wisdom and the current theory out here is that the fire was started when a man with a lit cigarette fell asleep in the park. That’s what the news is out here. So unless global warming caused that man to fall asleep, I don’t really see the connection, do you?

RUSH: No, no, no, no. That’s not what they’ll say. It might have been a cigarette. It might have been a bum or anybody else throwing a cigarette, but if it weren’t for global warming causing less rainfall than normal, the Griffith Park wouldn’t have gone up in flames the way it did! That’s what they’ll say. They’ve got this down pat. But all they’re doing is playing on the fact that, okay, we’ve got fires in Georgia. In fact, I have to tell you. We had fires in Florida here. It’s bad. Alligator Alley, which connects Fort Lauderdale to Naples, has been shut down, parts of it have been. I told you yesterday that I walked outside and the sky is totally gray, looks overcast, but there’s not a cloud nearby. It’s the smoke from all the fires. You can smell it a little bit out there. The kids are out playing in the schoolyard, being highly irresponsible. (I’m joking about this.) It’s as though all these kind of fires — you heard Katie Couric — biblical proportions, 2007, the Year of the Locust! It’s preposterous. All of this is preposterous. Global warming is responsible for all the fires!

When did we start naming hurricanes? I happen to know. Do any of you know when we started naming hurricanes? It was 1951, which happens to be the year that I was born. 1951. What were hurricanes before that? What did we call them? By the way, how do we know this is only the 17th storm to precede hurricane season because we’re only able to see these things around the world with satellites, and how long have we had satellites? Not much before 1951. How do we even know? All of this is just… I don’t know how to describe it, but it really frightens me for the overall intelligence of the people of this country. I’m starting to agree with those of you that have called me and said we’ve got way too many idiots in this country. You can see them easily by how many of them just suck up all the BS from the left.
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RUSH: Welcome back. Rush Limbaugh, talent on loan from God. Johnny in El Paso. Thanks for calling and welcome to the EIB Network, sir.

CALLER: Thanks, Rush. Thanks for taking my call. That guy in Griffith Park that burned down the park? If the smoking Nazis had allowed that guy to smoke indoors instead of outdoors, he probably would have just burned his cigarette out in an ashtray. You know, in New Mexico when they had the peak of the forest fire season, it was against the law to smoke outside. You would get a ticket for smoking outdoors.

RUSH: You can’t smoke inside anymore. I don’t know who started this fire out in Griffith Park. The caller said it was a bum. If it was a bum that means the bum didn’t have an indoors to go to. But it is an interesting thought. If the bum had been indoors somewhere and threw the cigarette down, it would just be one house that went up instead of a whole park. Outdoors… I don’t want to call the guy a bum because it would be an unfair characterization. He was an outdoorsman, out there trying to enjoy life, had a little cigarette, flipped it off and bam! We’ve got a fire. It is an interesting thing: the unintended consequences of all this liberal do-gooderism.
END TRANSCRIPT
Read the Background Material…
Palm Beach Post: Andrea rare May tropical storm
Reuters: Storm dissipates off Florida but rain welcomed
NewsBusters: Waiting for Katrina

I was just listening to Pat Robertson on You Tube. Terrorists do take advantage of political changes, 1993 (Clinton), 2001 (Bush), 2007 (New Congress?). Not a big leap to think of a terrorist attack in 2007. Kind of an anti-climax announcement.

But it did get me thinking, how many people actually prepare for a possible disaster by having a few days of food around, flash lights, medical supplies, that kind of thing. The normal Red Cross Be Prepared kind of thing.

All the "Oh my God the world is going to be destroyed by…" Nuclear war, global warming, terrorists, hurricanes, tornadoes, infestations of caterpillars, etc can leave this one alone.

I just want to know how many reasonably normal people have checked out ready.gov and have some emergency supplies around in case of a disaster.
Thanks. The ratio of real answers to silly answers tells me a lot too. Looks like if there was a major disaster any major urban center in the country things would end up a lot like they were in Louisiana. On the other hand, it kind of looks like people in rural or suburban areas might be better prepared. Kind of a common sense thing I would guess. some kind of ratio of storage space versus costs versus convince and availability, I would assume.

Thanks.