Tropical Storms Along the Equator and Abby
2010 Hurricane Watch
Satellite images of the ares just north of the equator on the Pacific and Caribbean sides of Central America is filled with tropical storm activity. Tropical Storm Blas continues to churn in the eastern Pacific Ocean while depression four has strengthened into Tropical Storm Celia.
The area within a few hundred miles of the southern Mexico and Central America coasts in the Pacific continues to be a hotbed of storm activity.
On the Caribbean side of the continent tropical waves fill out the satellite picture. There is no tropical storm development seen in the present forecasts, but every time I see a string of tropical waves along the equator I think of Hurricane Mitch back in 1998.
Continuing Last week's post on the subject of Abby Sunderland.
(News from Australia said the French ship Ile De La Reunion brought Sunderland on board from her battered craft Saturday afternoon.)
That was the end of last week's post on the subject of rescuing Abby Sunderland after she aborted her around-the-world odyssey. All the hoopla in recent days has been about the cost of the rescue effort and who would foot the bill.
However, the cost becomes a moot point when honorable people are involved and simply follow Maritime Law. After the 1912 Titanic disaster, there was an international agreement to help any ship in distress at sea at no cost.
So the two countries involved, France and Australia, are simply following Maritime Law and have brushed off questions about the cost of the rescue.
The French fishing ship Ile De La Reunion that rescued Abby is not expected to arrive in its home-port until next week.
So why can't our congress and president take a lesson from France and Australia -- step up to the plate, read our Constitution, stop pointing fingers, roll up your sleeves and clean up the oil mess in the Gulf of Mexico. I expect you had best get on with it or a rash of hurricanes might do it for you.
Tom Barnes -- Actor, Writer and Hurricane Hunter.
Check out my website for books, blogs, western legends, a literary icon, reviews and interviews. Also my novels Tungee's Gold, The Goring Collection and Doc Holliday’s Road to Tombstone along with a non fiction remembrance of The Hurricane Hunters and Lost in the Bermuda Triangle.
www.tombarnes39.comw
www.RocktheTower.com
http://thehurricanehunter.blogspot.com
Satellite images of the ares just north of the equator on the Pacific and Caribbean sides of Central America is filled with tropical storm activity. Tropical Storm Blas continues to churn in the eastern Pacific Ocean while depression four has strengthened into Tropical Storm Celia.
The area within a few hundred miles of the southern Mexico and Central America coasts in the Pacific continues to be a hotbed of storm activity.
On the Caribbean side of the continent tropical waves fill out the satellite picture. There is no tropical storm development seen in the present forecasts, but every time I see a string of tropical waves along the equator I think of Hurricane Mitch back in 1998.
Continuing Last week's post on the subject of Abby Sunderland.
(News from Australia said the French ship Ile De La Reunion brought Sunderland on board from her battered craft Saturday afternoon.)
That was the end of last week's post on the subject of rescuing Abby Sunderland after she aborted her around-the-world odyssey. All the hoopla in recent days has been about the cost of the rescue effort and who would foot the bill.
However, the cost becomes a moot point when honorable people are involved and simply follow Maritime Law. After the 1912 Titanic disaster, there was an international agreement to help any ship in distress at sea at no cost.
So the two countries involved, France and Australia, are simply following Maritime Law and have brushed off questions about the cost of the rescue.
The French fishing ship Ile De La Reunion that rescued Abby is not expected to arrive in its home-port until next week.
So why can't our congress and president take a lesson from France and Australia -- step up to the plate, read our Constitution, stop pointing fingers, roll up your sleeves and clean up the oil mess in the Gulf of Mexico. I expect you had best get on with it or a rash of hurricanes might do it for you.
Tom Barnes -- Actor, Writer and Hurricane Hunter.
Check out my website for books, blogs, western legends, a literary icon, reviews and interviews. Also my novels Tungee's Gold, The Goring Collection and Doc Holliday’s Road to Tombstone along with a non fiction remembrance of The Hurricane Hunters and Lost in the Bermuda Triangle.
www.tombarnes39.comw
www.RocktheTower.com
http://thehurricanehunter.blogspot.com
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