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1. Hurricane Hunters- Pursuit of Mother Nature's Eye of Fury Image flying into the eye of a hurricane. It's bad enough when I fly and we hit some turbulence. If you have ever flown on an airplane, you understand the bumps and jolts you can experience. Now, imagine the rockin' and rollin' in the fury of a hurri...
2. Let's Go to Port Aransas ~ ~ ~ ! Port Aransas is a beach town in Texas on the Gulf of Mexico. And just to make sure you're pronouncing it correctly, "Aransas" rhymes with Kansas, not Arkansas. The locals refer to it as "Port A". The closest city is Corpus Christi, about an hour dri...
3. Tornadoes Tornadoes are beautiful, powerful, destructive, and can seem to come out of nowhere. they can attract people like moth to a flame. Here you will find some of the finest tornado photos, posters, and art prints along with the tornado videos.
4. Drinks Made With Rum Rum is a pretty standard ingredient in most daiquiris and a lot of other mixed drinks. Like Vodka, it can be mixed with pretty much anything to create a tasty mixed drink. Rum, on the other hand, typically has a very distinct flavor, and comes in sev...
5. The Science of Tornadoes, Funnel Clouds, Twisters, Cyclones The name 'tornado' comes from the Spanish word 'tronada'. The other common names for tornadoes are: twister, funnel, or funnel cloud, and cyclone. This is about tornadoes and how they occur, plus other helpful information.
6. Let's Go to the Beach! Don't live near the beach? Miss the waves? I do too. So I've compiled links to some of my favorite webcams at the beach. They are sorted by areas of the country and bodies of water. It doesn't matter if it's night where you are, somewhere in the wor...
7. ~ ~ Watch Current Events from a Web Cam ~ ~ ~ Web cams along the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico. Storms are tough to watch from a web cam because they are not meant to withstand all that abuse. But pick a camera a couple hundred miles away, and you can see high tides, storm surge, and so...
8. The Hawker Hurricane - fighter aircraft of World War Two The Hurricane, along with the more glamerous Spitfire, bore the brunt of action during the Battle of Britain in World War Two. Reknowned for its toughness, the Hurricane could survive damage that would fell other aircraft. In one legendary encounter...
9. Hurricanes and Typhoons--The Dangerous Winds: How to Prepare The big news recently has been Tropical Storm Ketsana (also called Ondoy) that devastated the central area of Luzon (Manila area) of the Philippines -- not by all the wind (although that was a concern); but by the deluge of a month's worth of rain du...
10. Thar' She Blows ! Earthquakes , Volcanos, Tsunami, Landslides , Floods , Forest Fires Watching the latest eruptions around the globe ! Experimental Graphical Tropical Weather Outlook Current U.S.A. animated Weather Radar  Animated Earthquake Maps from : The Centre Sismologique Euro-Méditerranéen European-Mediterrane...
11. Hailstones Hail is a form of precipitation which consists of balls or irregular lumps of ice (hailstones), also hail is a type of snow. Hailstones on Earth usually consist mostly of water ice and measure between 5 and 50 millimeters in diameter, with the larger...
12. World Weather Weather is the specific condition of the atmosphere at a particular place and time. It is measured in terms of such things as wind, temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, cloudiness, and precipitation. In most places, weather can change from ho...
13. Hurricanes Hurricane Hugo formed off the coast of Africa on Sept, 19, 1989, tore through Charleston, SC on Sept 22, and finally dissipated on Sept. 25th. It left 82 people dead, 56,000 homeless, and caused over 10,000 billion dollars worth of damage. While cat...
14. Hurricane: How To Survive! On average the Southern United States coast line and the Eastern coast line is hit with 10-12 hurricanes each year. Costing homeowners and business owners billions of dollars of damage. What causes these destructive forces known as hurricanes? What a...
15. Flood Safety Tips We live in a time of growing awareness of great climatic changes. And though it may seem that currently we hear without letup of one disaster after another, mankind has always been challenged by nature. Without a doubt, history has recorded some dram...
16. The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight The BBMF (Battle of Britain Memorial Flight) is a display flight of eleven aircraft, including a Lancaster, Spitfires and Hurricanes. Flying out of RAF Conigsby, the flight actually has eleven aircraft, but normally displays as three (The Lancaster...
17. Hurricane Katrina These are my stories of living through Hurricane Katrina, the loss of a city I used to call home from 1977 - 1984, the city I graduated high school in, and the impact it's still having on my life. The third anniversaries of Katrina and Rita are comin...
18. Natural Disasters Video Showcase Natural disasters can strike at any time. They're everywhere, and if your geography isn't subject to tornadoes, very likely you have blizzards, droughts, hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunmamis, volcanoes, fires, or floods. There's no escaping mother natu...
19. Food Storage for the novice Pulling your hair out yet?! I've pulled together some fantastic resources that will help ease your headache! Hopefully I can help out with any questions you may have on getting started with food storage. My main focus on this lens will be about the...
20. Disaster Preparedness 101: Smart Planning Leads To Peace of Mind! Emergency planning? Disaster preparedness? It's not really all doom and gloom if you shift your perspective to "planning" and "preparedness." While all tragic events can't be totally avoided, you can have peace of mind knowing that you did your best...