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To: Road Walker who wrote (252091)	9/20/2005 9:41:54 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573911

"you can't act on the assumption that everyone is going to be a Katrina (a 40 year storm), or the hugely expensive evacuations would kill the local economies." Yep. Although the models appear to have gotten a lot better. The Hurricane Center has been calling landfall within 20-40 miles pretty consistently. They called Katrina a long way out and if it hadn't of been for some literally last minute weather developments, they would have had it almost exact.

To: Road Walker who wrote (252091)	9/20/2005 2:41:12 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573911

That's the thing with hurricanes... you can't act on the assumption that everyone is going to be a Katrina (a 40 year storm), or the hugely expensive evacuations would kill the local economies. I think its too early to decide that Katrina was a 40 year storm....esp. if global warming is a factor. In fact, Katrina may become the norm in the future. In the last three years, each year has seen the formation of more storms than the year before. Three years does not make a trend in weather but its worth watching closely. ted