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Can the US Handle ..Two.. Hurricane Disasters at the Same Time?
Hurricane...Ophelia. "OPHELIA IS BETWEEN TWO MID-LEVEL RIDGES" I'm not that superstitious, but this one gives me the willies. Ya know, after last year I thought it couldn't get any worse. No way that season could be beat for the number of storms making landfall. It didn't occur to me that instead of becoming more numerous, they would become larger. And the peak of hurricane season is just about to arrive. http://www.srh.noaa.gov/radar/latest.../si.kmlb.shtml As of now Ophelia could sit out there spinning and strengthening for several days. Anything could happen from nothing to another disaster. It's quite possible to have another huge crisis by early next week. I wonder if Fema has even considered the possibility of having to run two large operations at the same time? And it should be remembered that flooding in Georgia and the Carolinas is a real issue. Jonathan "THE BUILDING RIDGE COULD CAUSE A LOOPING MOTION OFF THE SOUTHEAST U.S. COAST THROUGH 120 HR...OR EVEN MOVE THE STORM BACK TO THE COAST BEFORE 120 HR" "THE INTENSITY FORECAST IS PROBLEMATIC." http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh...l/DDHHMM.shtml NOAA RAISES THE 2005 ATLANTIC HURRICANE SEASON OUTLOOK Bulk of This Season's Storms Still to Come Aug. 2, 2005 ? A very active Atlantic hurricane season is underway, and with more storms projected, NOAA today increased the number of storms in its 2005 hurricane season outlook. NOAA expects an additional 11 to 14 tropical storms from August through November, with seven to nine becoming hurricanes, including three to five major hurricanes. In total, this season i s likely to yield 18 to 21 tropical storms, with nine to 11 becoming hurricanes, including five to seven major hurricanes. http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2005/s2484.htm |
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jonathan wrote:
I wonder if Fema has even considered the possibility of having to run two large operations at the same time? Probably. And the result of that consideration was that Osama is unable to mess with the wheather yet and that therefore the risk can be safely ignored. Greetings! Volker |
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jonathan wrote: I wonder if Fema has even considered the possibility of having to run two large operations at the same time? And it should be remembered that flooding in Georgia and the Carolinas is a real issue. The real question isn't whether FEMA can handle two hurricane disasters at the same time. What you should be concerned about is whether FEMA can handle one hurricane disaster at the same time. Alain Fournier |
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"Alain Fournier" wrote in message ... jonathan wrote: I wonder if Fema has even considered the possibility of having to run two large operations at the same time? And it should be remembered that flooding in Georgia and the Carolinas is a real issue. The real question isn't whether FEMA can handle two hurricane disasters at the same time. What you should be concerned about is whether FEMA can handle one hurricane disaster at the same time. Yep, that 325 million for those three cruise ships that ....nobody...boarded is looking like a major dump. They sent em to Texas and not one person wanted to get on em. The paper today said that's about 30k per person for six months. What do they have against cash? Alain Fournier |
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On Thu, 8 Sep 2005 23:46:44 -0400, "jonathan"
wrote, in part: I wonder if Fema has even considered the possibility of having to run two large operations at the same time? If a small asteroid happens to hit near Yellowstone Park, I think we *can* be confident that FEMA will not be able to cope with the resulting disaster. The trouble is, of course, that constantly keeping on hand the resources to deal with that kind of a disaster would cost more than the disaster... John Savard http://home.ecn.ab.ca/~jsavard/index.html http://www.quadibloc.com/index.html _________________________________________ Usenet Zone Free Binaries Usenet Server More than 140,000 groups Unlimited download http://www.usenetzone.com to open account |
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jonathan wrote: I wonder if Fema has even considered the possibility of having to run two large operations at the same time? Yes, though the disasters weren't hurricanes and numbered considerably more than two: http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/usa/napb-90/execsum.html http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/usa/napb-90/index.html Having considered the possibility, one might wonder how far FEMA went in preparing to deal with it. Though some individual states used the disaster scenario developed as the basis for their own planning: http://www.tnema.org/Archives/EMHist...DHistory10.htm http://www.macombcountymi.gov/OEM/pdf/HMP/Chap1_2.pdf |
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What you should be concerned about is whether FEMA can handle one hurricane disaster at the same time.
Answer: yes. Faster response this time than for previous, less-damaging hurricanes. The real question is: can France handle a minor heat wave again? |
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