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To: combjelly who wrote (321847)	1/20/2007 7:48:46 AM
From: Taro	Respond to of 1574483

When the serious Föhn Sturms roar in over the Bavarian lakes from SW and the Alps, that's exactly what happens. Temperatures sink from the 80s to the low 50s within less than an hour. People out on boats dressed for the hots drown or freeze to death or both. These days the pre storm warning system is pretty good though. Unfortunately a lot of people don't take the signals seriously. That's also because the authorities prefer to cover their butt "just in case" and way too often are crying wolf. Taro

To: combjelly who wrote (321847)	1/20/2007 7:58:43 AM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574483

.S. plans envision broad attack on Iran: analyst Fri Jan 19, 7:49 PM ET U.S. contingency planning for military action against Iran's nuclear program goes beyond limited strikes and would effectively unleash a war against the country, a former U.S. intelligence analyst said on Friday. "I've seen some of the planning ... You're not talking about a surgical strike," said Wayne White, who was a top Middle East analyst for the State Department's bureau of intelligence and research until March 2005. "You're talking about a war against Iran" that likely would destabilize the Middle East for years, White told the Middle East Policy Council, a Washington think tank. "We're not talking about just surgical strikes against an array of targets inside Iran. We're talking about clearing a path to the targets" by taking out much of the Iranian Air Force, Kilo submarines, anti-ship missiles that could target commerce or U.S. warships in the Gulf, and maybe even Iran's ballistic missile capability, White said. "I'm much more worried about the consequences of a U.S. or Israeli attack against Iran's nuclear infrastructure," which would prompt vigorous Iranian retaliation, he said, than civil war in Iraq, which could be confined to that country. President George W. Bush has stressed he is seeking a diplomatic solution to the dispute over Iran's nuclear program. But he has not taken the military option off the table and his recent rhetoric, plus tougher financial sanctions and actions against Iranian involvement in Iraq, has revived talk in Washington about a possible U.S. attack on Iran. The Bush administration and many of its Gulf allies have expressed growing concern about Iran's rising influence in the region and the prospect of it acquiring a nuclear weapon. Middle East expert Kenneth Katzman argued "Iran's ascendancy is not only manageable but reversible" if one understands the Islamic republic's many vulnerabilities. Tehran's leaders have convinced many experts Iran is a great nation verging on "superpower" status, but the country is "very weak ... (and) meets almost no known criteria to be considered a great nation," said Katzman of the Library of Congress' Congressional Research Service. The economy is mismanaged and "quite primitive," exporting almost nothing except oil, he said. Also, Iran's oil production capacity is fast declining and in terms of conventional military power, "Iran is a virtual non-entity," Katzman added. The administration, therefore, should not go out of its way to accommodate Iran because the country is in no position to hurt the United States, and at some point "it might be useful to call that bluff," he said. But Katzman cautioned against early confrontation with Iran and said if there is a "grand bargain" that meets both countries' interests, that should be pursued.

To: combjelly who wrote (321847)	1/20/2007 12:44:19 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574483

"Why did they name Hurricane Kyrill?" They name big storms. My wife grew up on the North Sea. When she moved here I warned her that we get some severe weather, and hurricanes are even worse. She informed me that there are bad storms that come off the North Sea, even hurricanes. After she experienced her first blue norther, which dropped the temperature from the 80s to the high 30s in 12 hours and dumped over 4 inches of rain in just a couple of hours, she allowed that maybe she hadn't of experienced really heavy rain before. After that, she was a lot less confident about dealing with a hurricane. Nonetheless, the wind damage was pretty severe.......they had wind gusts up to 120 mph. I was surprised at the level of damage. And lets face it, the rain is a problem in a hurricane because they originate over tropical waters but its the wind damage typically that's the killer/the most destructive part of the storm.