Lessons from Hurricane Humberto


	Lessons from Hurricane Humberto

bignosemousie

9-14-2007 10:49 AM

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hurricane, humberto, disaster plans, science, meteorology, weather, texas, whoops, wait.a.minute.that.is.not.what.we.expected

bignosemousie says:

Everyone went to bed expecting to "weather the tropical storm" and a hurricane woke them up.

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Copyright 2007 Houston Chronicle</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/5133928.html">The rapidity with which Humberto spun from a cluster of thunderstorms into a Category 1 hurricane has highlighted a potential flaw in the Houston region's emergency plans.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/5133928.html">What would the area do if a large hurricane mushroomed just off the coast, moving so quickly ashore that few, if any, residents had time to safely evacuate? Humberto proved this is not an abstract question and underlined the fact that forecasting a storm's intensity remains as much art as science.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/15472A24-C60A-4EA5-9BA4-6250866F12EC/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>