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Borninhove
Calaspia
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 Posted - 10/06/2007 : 04:39:03
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Seems like cyclone season is here with a vengeance. Just spent some time consoling a colleague whose house in Newcastle, New South Wales, has been flooded out in the storm that hit yesterday. Her son managed to wade through waist-high water to get to the house in which all the furniture was floating and the cat and the dog were huddled on top of a shelf looking traumatised. Then last weekend there was a cyclone in Oman and 35 people were killed.
Yesterday CNN had a special report called "Out of Gas - We Were Warned" that portrayed the fictitious events of September 2009 when a monster hurricane hits Houston, Texas, taking out a quarter of the USA's oil-refining capacity followed by Al Qaeda attacks on tanker refuelling stations in the Gulf. The result was not good for the world.
I remember the hurricane of 1987 - at least the aftermath as although we lost half the tiles on our roof and six trees came down in the road I somehow managed to sleep through the whole thing. I wonder if another one could strike soon what with all the weird weather we are having now.
The BBC World Service had a report about some scientist who has been analysing cores taken from Carribean coral which, like ice cores or tree rings, can tell us about weather in the past. Apparently the large number of hurricanes we seem to get now is the norm and the period of relative calm during the 70s, 80s and early 90s was the anomaly.
Battern down the hatches!
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