Date: Wed, 04 Oct 95 12:01:50 CDT From: Patrick Douglas CrispenTo: TOURBUS@colossus.net Subject: TOURBUS 10/5 -- HURRICANE OPAL /~~~|~~~~|~~~~|~~~~|~~~~|~~~~|~~~~|~~~~|~~~~|~~~~~/~~~|~\ |____|____|____|____|____|____|____|____|____|____/ | \ | /_____|---\ / --T-H-E---I-N-T-E-R-N-E-T---T-O-U-R-B-U-S--> ///////| | | |///////| | ~~~/~~~\~/~~~\~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~/~~~\~~~~ \___/ \___/ "Why Surf When U Can Ride The Bus?" \___/ (This lesson was written and distributed on 10/4 in order to avoid the upcoming power outages across Alabama and Florida). TODAY'S STOP: HURRICANE OPAL TODAY'S ADDRESSES: http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/iwin/fcst/*/hurricane.html http://thunder.met.fsu.edu/explores/Tropical/td17/td17.html http://thunder.atms.purdue.edu/hurricane.html http://femapub1.fema.gov/fema/hurricaf.html Hey, did you hear about OJ? :) Actually, as hard as this is to believe, there is more going on in the world than the OJ Simpson trial. As a matter of fact, the Alabama/Florida coast is about to be pounded by one of the strongest hurricanes in recent history. Hurricane Opal is currently in the Gulf of Mexico and is heading towards the Alabama/Florida coast at 20 knots. The center of Opal (which is 7 miles wide) should cross the Northwestern Florida/ Southeastern Alabama border around 19:00 CST (+01:00 GMT). Hurricanes are rated by their potential for damage on a scale of 1 (minimal damage) to 5 (catastrophic damage). Hurricane Opal is currently a category 4 (extreme damage) hurricane with winds in excess of 150 miles per hour. By way of comparison, hurricane Andrew, which destroyed most of Southern Florida on August 31, 1992, was also category 4 hurricane with winds around 150 miles per hour. The National Weather Service is calling Opal "the United States' weather disaster of 1995" and is urging that "all preparations for the protection of life and property should be rushed to completion." The current text version of the National Weather Service hurricane warning can be found at http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/iwin/fcst/*/hurricane.html You can also find a great deal of information about Opal (including the current satellite and radar images) at http://thunder.met.fsu.edu/explores/Tropical/td17/td17.html This page is at Florida State University, and the folks at FSU have done a great job keeping this page up to date. However, "Florida State University is now closed, an inland state of Emergency has been declared, and evacuations are currently underway." In other words, since Tallahassee is in the Florida panhandle, and since Opal is headed towards the Alabama/Florida coast, it is quite possible that this page will disappear once Opal hits land later tonight. If Opal takes out FSU, you can still find information on the hurricane at http://thunder.atms.purdue.edu/hurricane.html This page is at Purdue University, and is loaded with graphics (so it may take a long time to fully download). If you live in the path of Opal (or, for that matter, any other Hurricane), you probably want to check out the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Hurricane fact sheet at http://femapub1.fema.gov/fema/hurricaf.html The fact sheet tells you what to do before, during, and after a hurricane. TODAY'S SOUTHERN WORD OF THE DAY -------------------------------- In light of the disaster that is about to hit Alabama and Florida, I believe that printing a Southern word with today's tourbus would be in extremely poor taste. Instead, I hope that we will all remember the people along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico in our prayers tonight. ******************** The WorldWideWeb Handbook ********************** For a good book on how to write your own Web files, see "The WorldWideWeb Handbook" (ITCP ISBN 1-85032-205-8) Details on the Web at http://www.ucc.ie/~pflynn/books/wwwbook.html *********************************************************************** ====================================================================== SUBSCRIBE : Send SUBSCRIBE TOURBUS to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.AOL.COM unSUBSCRIBE: Send UNSUBSCRIBE TOURBUS to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.AOL.COM Web Site : http://csbh.mhv.net/~bobrankin/tourbus (stop in for back issues and the logo contest) Advertising: E-mail BobRankin@MHV.net w/ Subject: SEND TBRATES ====================================================================== TOURBUS - (c) Copyright 1995, Patrick Crispen and Bob Rankin All rights reserved. Redistribution is allowed only with permission. (\__/) .~ ~. )) /O O ./ .' PATRICK DOUGLAS CRISPEN {O__, \ { PCRISPE1@UA1VM.UA.EDU / . . ) \ THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA |-| '-' \ } )) HTTP://UA1VM.UA.EDU/~CRISPEN/CRISPEN.HTML .( _( )_.' '---.~_ _ _& Warning: squirrels.
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