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To: sea_urchin who wrote (8954)	3/5/2000 10:20:00 AM
From: Alan Whirlwind	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81176

I used to live in Guatemala and so received reports via e-mail of the disater there when Hurricane Mitch hit. The hurricane was one of the worst ever in the Western Carribean with sustaned winds of 175 miles per hour. It did weaken before landfall in Honduras, but that turned out to be little consolation. It's slow movement meant more rain. Feet of rain. The worst possible movement pattern of the storm occurred when on Halloween day in 1998 it stalled on the Honduras/Guatemalan border, allowing feeder bands of moisture to be pulled from both the Carribean to the east and the Pacific to the west. Nicaragua and Guatemala now bore the brunt. In Nicaragua, the crater of a dormant volcano filled with water and then collapsed, killing thousands of people. Guatamala's flooding was also extensive. But the worst was in Honduras where it never stopped raining until the tropical system finally drifted north towards the Yucatan Peninsula. Honduras lost 60% of its roadway infrastructure. Can you imagine any modern country suffering such a loss? The change in the weather is indeed scary. But it was damn cold here in Wisconsin this past winter, so global warming has taken a sabbatical apparently. --Alan

To: sea_urchin who wrote (8954)	3/5/2000 11:49:00 AM
From: PAUL ROBERTSON	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81176

Searle, Even here in Montreal we do not seem to receive the precipitation that we used to as far back as i can remember as a child. The summers are warmer and dryer while the winters are quite volatile...a great deal of snow or weeks of little or none at all. A friend who had lived all his life in Montreal and who moved to South Carolina two years ago was amazed at the 30+ days of 100 degrees + F that they experienced last summer Certainly given all the suffering on your continent i do hope, that at the very least, the ground somehow becomes more fertile over time due to the precipitation and that you begin to experience less volatile and more consistent weather patterns. i agree with your theory, that although we may be moving toward another ice age, our poor little planet just cannot absorb the mass of whatever carbons we emit globally on a daily basis. Take Care, paul P.S. The weather you describe sounds very South American. eg. Costa Rica.