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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: longnshort who wrote (9086)	1/20/2007 1:35:07 AM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36917

Do you believe that our accumulated knowledge of meteorology and computer simulations have helped predict hurricanes and tornado damages? Has it helped to save lives?? This is where we were in 1935 during the Labor Day Hurricane. In total, at least 423 people (164 residents and 259 veterans employed on the road project)(1) were killed by the hurricane (the official National Weather Service estimate remains 408 deaths). Bodies were recovered as far away as Flamingo and Cape Sable on the southwest tip of the Florida mainland. In a fortuitous coincidence, about 350 of the 718 veterans living in the Keys work camps were in Miami to attend a Labor Day baseball game when the storm hit.(2) If not for this outing, many more of the men, whose barracks in the Keys were flimsy shacks, might have been killed by the storm. en.wikipedia.org Some of the criticism's... The supervisor of the veterans camps, Ray Sheldon, and director of all Florida work camps, Fred Ghent, have been criticized for their failure to ensure the safety of the veterans as the storm approached. They read the Weather Bureau predictions, which had the storm passing south of the Florida Keys through the Straits of Florida, as a literal and definite forecast of the storm's path. They failed to account for the unpredictability of hurricanes, especially considering the primitive nature of climatology in 1935 Are we any better off today?