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Arellia
The Quiet One
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 Thu Sep 22, 2005 6:33 pm Hurricanes... generated? |
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| Quote: | Global warming? Act of God? Nope, says one Idaho weatherman � Hurricane Katrina was part of a man-made plot against America.
Scott Stevens, a meteorologist who for nine years has been forecasting the weather on KPVI-TV (search) in Pocatello, says the Yakuza � the Japanese mafia � is using a Russian-made electromagnetic generator to launch terrific storms against the U.S. mainland.
The devastation of New Orleans was in revenge for the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Stevens explains on his Web site. He says it will soon be used again against another major American city.
"A battle in the skies is waged daily. Some battles are won and others lost. We yet know not which," Stevens writes on the front page of his site. "For years this massive global project has been under way, but only now is it making it to the forefront of the consciousness of those with curious minds."
Rumors have long circulated of a secret Soviet weather weapon, but Stevens told the Idaho Falls Post Register he became convinced it existed after noticing strange patterns in a Montana cold front in 2004.
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"I just got sick to my stomach because these clouds were unnatural and that meant they had [the machine] on all the time," Stevens told the newspaper. "I was left trying to forecast the intent of some organization, rather than the weather of this planet."
Nor is it a coincidence that both Katrina and Ivan � the huge hurricane that hit Florida a year ago � are Russian names, Stevens says.
At least one other scientist, however, thinks it's all a bunch of hooey.
"I have been doing hurricane research for the better part of 20 years now, and there was nothing unusual to me about any of the satellite imagery of Katrina," Robert S. Young, an associate professor of geology at Western Carolina University (search) in Cullowhee, N.C., told the newspaper. "It's laughable to think it could have been man-made."
Other hurricane experts explain that the spate of severe North Atlantic storms in recent years is part of a natural 25- to 30-year cycle. There was a wave of damaging hurricanes between 1935 and 1965, then a lull before the number of bad storms increased again around 1995.
The U.S. government has apparently tried to influence hurricanes, but its Project Stormfury, which from 1962 to 1983 sought to weaken cyclones by seeding the storms' eyewalls with silver iodide, was a failure.
Stevens is unperturbed by those who scoff at his findings.
"I fully expect one more 'event' this year to impact the United States," he writes. "My gut feeling is that it will be an earthquake/volcanic event with intensity of at least 7.5 in magnitude resulting in insured losses to exceed $25 billion."
His bosses at KPVI-TV don't mind his views, as long as he keeps them off the air.
"He doesn't talk about it on his weathercast," General Manager Bill Fouch told the newspaper. "He's very knowledgeable about weather, and he's very popular."
� Thanks to Out There reader Kevin M. |
- http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,170064,00.html
...now... I'm curious to see views on this. A very large part of me wants to say this is a stupid theory based on paranoia. Then there's the...what if? Is it even possible?
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TrekkieMage
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| Thu Sep 22, 2005 7:02 pm |
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I'm sorry but...  I think that is the most ridiculus thing I've heard in a while...
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Hitchhiker
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| Thu Sep 22, 2005 7:37 pm |
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I have to agree. I don't think anyone has the resources or capability to purposely construct a hurricane and aim it at a specific location. The climates and weather are very complex systems, and even if one could begin to synthesise a hurricane, I'd like to see someone control the weather of the entire planet in order to get it going where one wants it.
I think both Katrina and Rita are simple, natural hurricanes that are perhaps more severe than average. 
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webtaz99
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| Thu Sep 22, 2005 8:20 pm |
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Why take out New Orleans?
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B'Elanna Torres 7 of 9
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| Fri Sep 23, 2005 10:01 am |
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Yes i had to chuckle myself reading that. I am taking a meteorology class right now and we've had many a discussion about the hurricanes. I should bring this option up for a good laugh!
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Republican_Man
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| Fri Sep 23, 2005 11:08 am |
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No, no, no. I think this is real. I think the hurricanes ARE man-made. But not by Japanese terrorists, but by the racist BUSH administration. They did it to hurt the black people down there. I know it; I just know it.
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PrankishSmart
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| Fri Sep 23, 2005 12:36 pm |
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| webtaz99 wrote: | | Why take out New Orleans? |
Correct me if I am wrong, but wasn't new orleans always considered a high risk area to live anyways (before the hurricane). I don't understand why people would want to live right on the edge of where hurricanes can easily come ashore.
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Republican_Man
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| Fri Sep 23, 2005 1:01 pm |
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| PrankishSmart wrote: | | webtaz99 wrote: | | Why take out New Orleans? |
Correct me if I am wrong, but wasn't new orleans always considered a high risk area to live anyways (before the hurricane). I don't understand why people would want to live right on the edge of where hurricanes can easily come ashore. |
It's its situation. It's site is not good, but its situation--at the mouth of the Mississippi to the ocean--is why people live there.
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borgslayer
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| Fri Sep 23, 2005 1:16 pm |
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This story is plausable since the Soviet did experiment on anything they think could be use as a weapon.
Also just 4 days ago or so 5 hurricanes appeared in the Pacific near Mexico. One of the hurricane reached as far as 200 milles east of hawaii still a hurricane which has never happened before in recorded history.
I with the weather man on this one.
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