These weather people must be pissed off at

[obxhead]

Rita making landfall at night. No pics of signs crashing down.

If you're in it, I hope all is well.

[rodeodance]

1. Their time-and our time could be used better to bring in scientists to

have a good discussion about 'global warming'-climate change etc. from acedemics--a real discussion--not people yelling at each other.

[obxhead]

2. oh how correct you are...

while we die for the oil that destroys us.

[cloud_chaser1]

3. Some schmuck weathercaster in Idaho

just resigned afrom his TV station after claiming on the air that hurricane Rita was created by an electromagnetic device belonging to the Yakuza, the Japanese crime family.:crazy:

[obxhead]

6. yeah he's been crackin me up today

:hi: cloud chaser
welcome to DU.

[dbt]

7. You reckon that's any crazier than Kay Hutchison's Weather Modification

bill, S 517, introduced in March of this year, with a proposed effective date of October 1, 2005?

You can read it here.

Remember New Orleans

[0rganism]

4. My hunch is they'll get another chance or two before this season is done

Plenty of opportunities for the oil co's to spike gas prices.

[punpirate]

5. Well, screw the reporters...

... both Katrina and Rita reached landfall in the early morning--any radiational cooling at night helps reduce the power of the storm, and that may be one of the reasons why the damage wasn't even worse, in the case of Katrina.