With the number of tornado reports for the period Sat afternoon through Monday morning now approaching 100, it is worth pointing out that while this is certainly one of the greatest November outbreaks on record, tornado outbreaks during Autumn are far from a rarity. In fact, a second tornado-maxima occurs during the season.

As is the case during Spring, cold and drier air from the north begins clashing again with the warmer, moist air from the Gulf. Sometimes, as was the case this past weekend, a particularly strong jet stream also enhances thunderstorm activity during various times of the year. The current El Nino is being fingered out for a possible reason why the jet stream across the country was so powerful this past week. (Recall the hurricane force winds in California Thursday & Friday).

Currently there are roughly three dozen confirmed fatalities and many people are still missing and concern is rising that at least some of them may not be found alive. To illustrate, with clarion, the impact of this past weekend's explosion of nature's fury, consider that the oft-referred to super-outbreak of May 3, 1999, claimed forty-six lives.

"These are not the questions you are looking for.
This effort has nothing to do with American imperialism. Move along."

WOW!

NEW ORLEANS -- People here saw water in ponds, bayous and pools slosh about from what geophysicists say was caused by the awesome power of an earthquake in Alaska Sunday, more than 3,000 miles away.

Full article here:
http://www.theadvocate.com/stories/110402/wea_laquake001.shtml

Really good!
Stolen from a friend ..from somewhere else... and so on and so forth...
Try this! *click* *click* *click*


http://www.wennberg.net/mathias/fun/cave_of_magic/

What Christopher Walken Character are you?
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New York Times article (you may need a subscription to the times, or at least a "free" on-line membership to access this:
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/05/technology/circuits/05BLOG.html

Curious stuff. Well, I'm not "a female 15-21 with a close circle of friends," but I did stay at a Holiday Inn last night. ;)

From an E-mail I received earlier today...

SEX AND YOUR FIRST NAME ~
According to studies, your sexual identity is revealed by the first letter
of your FIRST name... what do you think? (Those of you with names that start
with "N" will probably wish it started with "K"!)
*******S fits me so well. *wicked grin* Sassy*****


Hmmm.. About me???
L- You are very romantic, idealistic, and somehow you believe that to love
means to suffer. You wind up serving your mate or attracting people who have
unusual troubles. You see yourself as your lover's savior. You are sincere,
passionate, lustful, and dreamy. You can't help falling in love. You
fantasize and get turned on by movies and magazines. You do not tell others
of this secret life, nor of your sexual fantasies.

And now you?
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