On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, John Lieberman wrote:
> "Charles R. Schultz" wrote:
> >
> > P.S. A portable weather-alert radio would be a good thing to have at an
> > autocross, too. It might prevent a tragedy!
Uh, how?
> AMEN! I've got one that I carry in my briefcase all the time now.
> Wish I would have had it a few years ago when the tornado blew through
> Mineral Wells or when we took a lightning hit in New Orleans.
Because it prevents weather from occurring? I'm clearly a bit fuzzy on
the concept. Tornadoes and lightning don't come out of clear blue skies
(at least not often enough to worry about). And tornadoes generally move
too fast and dissipate too quickly to avoid any particular one - all you
usually get is a generic alert. Would you really shut down an event and
send everyone... (where?) for a county-wide tornado alert?
> The irony of that New Orleans lightning hit is that I had been
> counting the interval between lightning flashes and thunder claps as
> the storm moved closer. I was just getting ready to go find the event
> chairman and tell him that we needed to shut things down for awhile
> until the storm passed when the lightning hit! If I'd had my weather
> radio then, I would have known that we were under a severe
> thunderstorm warning and could have acted sooner.
So you can see the storm, you're watching it approach, but without
official notification you don't acknowledge its presence?
Sorry for the sniping, I just really don't understand where you're coming
from. I don't see what weather conditions would affect an event that
wouldn't be readily advertised by NWS alerts on your car radio.
KeS
(grew up in Houston, have Camille, Allen, and a half-dozen others on my
resume, including being right under Claudette in 1979. 43 inches in 24
hours - glug!)
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