http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/10/21/wstorm121.xml

"under one scheme, aircraft would drop soot into the near-freezing cloud at the top of a hurricane, causing it to warm up and so reduce wind speeds. Computer simulations of the forces at work in the most violent storms have shown that even small changes can affect their paths – enabling them to be diverted from major cities."


But the hurricane modifiers are fighting more than the weather. Lawyers warn that diverting a hurricane from one city to save life and property could result in multi-billion dollar lawsuits from towns that bear the brunt instead. Hurricane Katrina caused about $41 billion in damage to New Orleans.

And and who is going to pay for the damages and death when the hurricane is "steered" from Savannah and flattens Charleston?

i remember steering a few hurricanes in new orleans with styles b*tchley and his posse a few years ago...mighty fine drink, it is.

WCWWWWD

Mario M.

Although those Hurricanes can and have done quiet a bit of damage, either steered or un-steered, frozen or on the rocks, I don't think that was the right type 'cane.

sounds like it would be easier to herd cats...

Well, to be honest, man attempting to moderate mother nature would be nothing less than an exercise in futility. Your talking about energy of a scale many dont quite quite comprehend. There may be very few things that man doesnt control on this earth, and Hurricanes are one of them.

Instead of spending the time and effort trying to control the direction, why not spend that effort rezoning areas as parks, and green space. Control the building on sand dunes, and you have controlled the problem.

T

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Instead of spending the time and effort trying to control the direction, why not spend that effort rezoning areas as parks, and green space. Control the building on sand dunes, and you have controlled the problem.

Sorry, that's way too logical.

http://www.weathersage.com/texts/boesen2/chapter6.htm

An excerpt from the above link, timeline August, 1969...

"As Debbie finally passed within range, fully mature, with winds doing better than 115 miles an hour, the hunters took off. Coming alongside the great, dark mass of swirling clouds the five Navy planes plunged inside and crossed the eye, loosing silver iodide as they went. In two or three minutes they came out.

Two hours later, the seeders struck again. Five times that day, August 18, they dived into the hurricane with large doses of silver iodide, waiting two hours between flights.

Meanwhile, as each seeding foray was made, two accompanying monitor planes took turns crisscrossing the storm from one side to the other, to see what was happening, measuring temperatures, pressures, cloud contents, and wind speeds.

A great deal was happening. The winds were slowing sharply. They started falling soon after the second seeding, and they kept on falling until five or six hours after the final seeding. By then, the winds were down from a high of 115 miles an hour to 78, somewhat stronger than a gale.

In another two days the seeders repeated the experiment. Once more the winds, which had speeded up again during first night, began to slow as the seeding progressed. Six hours after the last assault with silver iodide, the winds were down from about the same high as on the first day, or 115 miles an hour, to 98. In fifty other hurricanes studied, but not seeded, there had been no such change in the winds.

"A huge operational success," said Dr. R. Cecil Gentry, head of Stormfury. who personally took part in the experiments, the first multiple seedings of a hurricane ever made. They did what they set out to do, Dr. Gentry said. They put the silver iodide where they planned to put it, and they got the kind of information they were after."

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There may be very few things that man doesnt control on this earth, and Hurricanes are one of them.

I guess that's why they first started naming them after Women!!!

They haven't named one after me
YET

Honey, they're just waiting to do you justice; they'll name the first Category 6 storm after you!

Sorry Stormie. . .

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Hurricane Esther was the fifth named storm and fifth hurricane of the 1961 Atlantic hurricane season. A long-lived Category 4 Cape Verde-type hurricane, Esther spent its lifetime offshore, before moving up the East Coast of the United States. Esther made two distinct landfalls in New England, passing over Nantucket Island as a rapidly weakening Category 3 hurricane, then coming ashore in Maine while losing its tropical characteristics. These landfalls were separated by a rather unusual anticyclonic loop over the north Atlantic Ocean.

The hurricane caused $6 million (1961 USD, $37.4 million 2005 USD) in damage along the Eastern Seaboard, mostly on Long Island. Seven indirect deaths were also attributed to Esther after a Navy aircraft crashed in the Atlantic Ocean north of Bermuda, one of only a few documented occurrences of a tropical cyclone causing an airplane crash.

Esther was also one of the first storms targeted by a Navy experiment aimed at weakening hurricanes by seeding their eyewalls with silver iodide. Two flights were made into the storm, and the results of this expedition led to the establishment of the ill-fated Project Stormfury in 1962. . .

//Source//

...gjd

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Originally posted by SociallyAutistic:
Honey, they're just waiting to do you justice; they'll name the first Category 6 storm after you!

Now that's funny!!! LOL

An MSST could steer one. If you don't believe me, just ask them.

We did, summer “03 Galveston, TX. There it was bearing down on poor little ole us, fresh paint out in the parking lot; dividing lines yaknow to separate the reserves from active. One of the BMC’s looked towards the sky, shook his head and held up one of our new MSST patches, rest is history. Dang thing turned south and headed for Mexico.

Don posts

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Originally posted by drslouha:
We did, summer “03 Galveston, TX. There it was bearing down on poor little ole us, fresh paint out in the parking lot; dividing lines yaknow to separate the reserves from active. One of the BMC’s looked towards the sky, shook his head and held up one of our new MSST patches, rest is history. Dang thing turned south and headed for Mexico.

Don posts

Hmm... That's funny, thought for sure I would have read about that in the CG Magazine. I would have guessed that the whole issue would have been dedicated to it.

Actually, I DO believe that it happened that way, but only because a BMC held up his hand, no matter what was in it.

Still having fun.

Aw Crap! Someone named Esther got ahead of me. Why the names? Do they name tornadoes? My cousin Don lives on Carolina Beach he built his house to twice the standards. When a hurricane was imminet he'd take his motor home and go to his sons in Raleigh. One time he was close to a tree and the tree fell on his motor home. Little damage. Hurricanes give you time to get out of town How about tornadoes.
I'm glad I live in CA all we have to worry about is earthquakes