Bill Gates hopes so, at least someday. This story came out on Friday and I found it here at gizmodo.com, “Bill Gates Patent Could Save Us From Another Hurricane Katrina” Apparently, Bill Gates along with ex-Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold, Gates has applied for five patents that call for a fleet of specially equipped vessels to [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Tropics 2005'
Can One Man Stop the Next Katrina or Ike?
July 14th, 2009 · 1 Comment
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Gustav Enters the Gulf of Mexico
August 31st, 2008 · 1 Comment
Gustav has had a very impressive day since I updated Saturday morning. It became a category 4 hurricane with sustain winds of 150 mph right before it made landfall in western Cuba. Now Gustav’s center is back over water and has entered the southeastern Gulf of Mexico. As Gustav moved over Cuba it weakened slightly, [...]
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Gustav is a Hurricane & Strengthening, Time to Prepare!
August 30th, 2008 · No Comments
Gustav returned to hurricane strength Friday afternoon after hammering Jamaica Thursday with landslides and flooding that killed 4 people. That raised Gustav’s overall toll to 71 lives after earlier deaths in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. [For More news Gustav News Click Here] The above image is a current satellite image of Gustav. As of [...]
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2007 Hurricane Season Suffering from the “Katrina Factor”
September 21st, 2007 · No Comments
I first used the term “Katrina Factor” when tropical storm Alberto, the first storm of the 2006 season, didn’t live up to hype as it hit Florida and local officials had evacuated 20,000 people before it made landfall. So what is the “Katrina Factor”? The “Katrina Factor” is how we look and react to to [...]
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Katrina’s 2 year Anniversary
August 29th, 2007 · No Comments
It has been 2 years since the Gulf Coast, and New Orleans were devastated by Hurricane Katrina. That really kicked off my constant blogging on one particular weather event. I still remember images like this. I remember staring at this Satellite Image for who knows how long before I left work the night before Katrina [...]
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