Storms 411

Welcome to Storms411.com

Storms411 was created in 2005 during Hurricane Katrina as a means of providing information and communication to people affected by the storm and their families as well as students, educators, and all people interested in learning about hurricane affected areas. Storms411 welcomes all comments and feedback on all post so please feel free to express your views when you feel called to. If you are a local blogger, have pictures, links to news stories or suggestions concerning active storms please email me at Bruce.Downs@GMail.com

Storms411 serves three purposes:

1. To distribute the latest information on active Hurricanes by reporting Storm Development, Preparations/Expectations before landfall, Displacement/Evacuation, Developing Situations, Aftermath/Devastation and Search/Rescue by means of links to newspapers, local bloggers and photos.

2. To follow the aftermath of the storm including health concerns, animal concerns, price gouging, death toll, relief response, political issues, missing people, donations and charities, scams and frauds, insurance, employment, and reconstruction.

3. To educate by providing an online resource to people affected by the storm and their families as well as students, educators, and all people interested in learning about major storms.

List of Storms documented:
2005 Season:
Current post
Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Rita

Comments

[artur]

For brief televising images one sees that the draining in New Orleans can be made of more efficient form and more fast!
It is simple!
The pipes for where the water is pumped must finish to the level it sea, so that it has the lesser possible unevenness
enters the entrance of the water for the bombs and the exit of the water in the sea.
It is alone to increase or to add the pipes, and to make to go down the tip until the o level of the sea.
With this the income of the bombs will be bigger, saving energy and draining more fast.
Artur Lopes
inventorpt@gmail.com
Portugal
in portuguese:
http://ideias-inventos.blogspot.com/

[Lisa Schwartz]

Hi,

I found this article regarding people betting on the odds of hurricanes occurring this year and thought you might be interested in it for your site.

Here's the link...

http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/1025443121.html?dids=1025443121:1025443121&FMT=FT&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Apr+22%2C+2006&author=&pub=St.+Petersburg+Times&edition=&startpage=1.B&desc=For+use+on+your+snail-mail+love+letters+Series%3A+CORRECTION


Ante up: Hurricane season is almost here
Hurricane season doesn't start until June 1, but the bookies at BetCRIS.com have already laid some odds. "From our perspective, 2006 is not going to be a good year for Florida or the rest of the gulf coast," said BetCRIS' chief executive, Mickey Richardson.
Will a hurricane of Category 3 or worse hit the U.S. mainland?
Yes: 1 to 5
No: 3 to 1
Will a hurricane of Category 3 or worse hit Florida?
Yes: 1 to 1.25
No: 1 to 1.25
How many hurricanes of Category 3 or worse will hit the U.S. mainland?
Zero: 3 to 1
One: 2.75 to 1
Two: 2.25 to 1
Three: 2.50 to 1
Four: 2.50 to 1
Five: 7 to 1
Six or more: 15 to 1