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- From: keller@nsslc.gcn.uoknor.edu
- Subject: Re: Trailer Park Humor (Was: Tornadoes around the world)
- Message-ID: <24JAN199316285820@nsslc.gcn.uoknor.edu>
- Summary: -Not- in good taste for residents of Andover, KS.
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- Organization: National Severe Storms Laboratory
- References: <1992Dec18.170955.17961@serval.net.wsu.edu> <1992Dec18.202619.29890@ncar.ucar.edu> <1992Dec18.234652.18214@ncar.ucar.edu> <ns.726505642@csd.cri.dk>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 16:28:00 GMT
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- >In article <1992Dec18.202619.29890@ncar.ucar.edu> ilana@kiowa.scd.ucar.edu (Ilana Stern) writes:
- >>In article <1992Dec18.170955.17961@serval.net.wsu.edu>, jeffp@wsuaix.csc.wsu.edu (Jeff Parke) writes:
- >>> A friend from Africa said there were no tornadoes there. Is North America
- >>> the only continent where tornadoes ocurr? If so, why?
- >>
- > various comments, which the humor-impaired will likely take seriously..
-
- >>Finally, let us not overlook the importance of trailer parks, which
- >>serve as "tornadic magnets." There are far more trailer parks in the
- >>US than anywhere else, and these trailer parks are crucial to the
- >>formation of tornadoes, as observational evidence indicates that
- >>tornadoes nearly always occur in their vicinity.
- >>
- > I have always thought that as a weather modification project,
- > for tornado dissipation, they (who??) ought to drop trailers
- > out of the back of some large cargo plane, like a C5a. This
- > would immediately attract any tornadoes in the area, give them
- > something to chew on (literally), and voila, the problem is
- > solved.
-
- You've all missed the point. These "bogus" trailers ought to
- be fully instrumented so as to collect data on the atmospheric
- variables in the immediate vicinity of a strong to violent
- tornado. I am the national head of just such a project (not!).
- If you wish to contribute to this project, send me money! :^)
-
- -- Nah, forget my name --
-
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