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Hurricanes in USA Pictures GalleryAdvanced Photoshop Pictures Gallery - 9 image entries
Contest Directions: Unless you live (like I do) in dimly lit apartment totally isolated
from the outside world, you have seen the TV weather reports (on every) with warnings of Hurricane Ernesto approaching US,
reaching Category 3, and thinking about making a stop in hurricanes'
all time favorite New Orleans. Before you start panicking and packing
your suitcases however, I wish to remind you that weathermen are the
only creatures on earth that are wrong 80% of the times and still keep
their jobs. So if weathermen tell you Hurricane Ernesto will visit the US
with predicted destructions of twice the Hiroshima blast, you can go
straight to "predicted" eye of the hurricane which will be the
safest place on earth. Hurricanes like to watch weather forecasts the
same way we watch late-night shows, and they see weathermen as the
best comics this planet ever produced. Every day weather forecast
is like David Letterman's Top 10 List. Hurricanes don't want their
comic idols to get fired however, so every once in a while (yes,
those are the 20% we talked about) they give them a break and go to the
places predicted by weathermen. This time Hurricane Ernesto is
"supposed" to visit several states/places in the US - sort of a
vacation trip for a foreign hurricane. In this contest you are
asked to show what places in the US Esnesto may visit by showing
"vacation photos" of Esnesto at the US places/states it visits,-
similar to usual vacation pictures people are taking (Hey, I've been
HERE, and here, and HERE, look!) Either hurricane itself, or destruction from the hurricane has to be included in your entry picture to quality. Make the pictures postcards-like and
write the Ernesto's impression of these places on the postcards. If
you want to go even further you may address the Ernesto' postcard
messages to any famous person... or another hurricane.
E.g.
"Hey, Katrina, Greetings from Florida! Just a short stop here, as I hate their giant insects. If you ever stop here again, don't make eye contact to people - this is asking to be mugged.
~ Ernesto"
P.S. If you run short of ideas, think of trailer parks. Hurricanes and
trailer parks are naturally attracted to each other, sort of like
Paris Hilton and STDs. Tags: hurricanes usa
Top 9 Contest Gallery Pictures
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Ernesto, a Hurricane gaining strength in the central Caribbean, is heading towards Jamaica on Saturday. Ernesto threatens to enter into the Gulf of Mexico, being the first hurricane of the 2006 season that could become a Category 3 hurricane. Ernesto might become a Category 3 hurricane by Thursday. It may be headed for New Orleans. Hurricane Katrina, another Category 3 hurricane, struck New Orleans nearly one year ago. John Cangialosi, who is a meteorologist with the National Hurricane Center, said it does look like Ernesto will hit the United States somewhere. The storm's winds are expected to reach 60 miles per hour by late Saturday.
Chronology of hurricanes:
In classical work on dynamics of Atlantic cyclones, William Gray, head of tropical meteorology project at Colorado State University, has shown presence of 25-30yr cycles in activity of tropical storms.
1933
In Atlantic, it was the most active season in XX-th century: 21 storms were observed.
1950
In Atlantic, it is year of the most destructive storms: 8 strong hurricanes were observed.
1969
Most number of hurricanes in Atlantic in a season - 12 hurricanes.
1995
With regard to number of storms in Atlantic, this is the second year after 1933: 19 storms.
2004
* Ivan (August — September) — Caribbean sea, Cuba, USA (Florida);
* Jeanne (September) — Caribbean sea, Haiti
Jeanne:
According to Associated Press, death-toll as a result of downpours, floods and mudslides can touch 2000 mark on Haiti, caused by hurricane “Jeanne”. As of September 23, about 1100 deaths and 1250 missing persons was recorded. Most numbers of deaths — in the city of Gonaives, northern part of island. According to the authorities, 1013 deaths were recorded. Representatives of Red Cross are afraid of spreading of epidemics through water in which bodies of dead people were found floating for several days together. At places, water level exceeds 4m and new dead bodies are found in process of its recession. President of Haiti named this as humanitarian calamity and urged help from international community. In May 2004, island already survived one of the most terrible floods for entire history, during which about 2500 deaths were reported.
2005
Katrina (August) — on August 27, it passed over coast of Florida not far away from Miami and turned towards Gulf of Mexico and on August 29, it reached southeast coast of USA around states Louisiana and Mississipi.
2006
Saomai — on August 10, it reached coasts of China in southern part of province Zhejiang. Wind strength in epicenter touched 60 km/sec (250 km/hr) and according to weather forecasters, it is the strongest typhoon, forming in territory of China for the last 50 years. |
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