The snowzilla last weekend in the North East and mid Atlantic USA dumped upto 30 inches of snow. The situation was worth around New Jersey where high winds up to 70 miles of hour, compounded by tide due to full moon, caused coastal flooding.
Death toll was reportedly around 20, not so bad to the immense preparedness and professional disaster handling by the authorities. Most are driving related, as there are still people who needlessly cause harakiri by adventuring out, not heeding to the warning by the authorities. I am sure in that case, the human toll can be cut down by half.
It is no coincidence that due to global warming, there is more moisture on the surface of earth, leading to catastrophic hurricanes, cyclones and snow storms than never before. But glad to advance technology, this monster storm was predicted for about a week or so ago, giving advance time to prepare.
Yet no technology has been developed to correctly predict the natural disaster of earthquake. It's said that some animals are known to have a sixth sense to sense and earthquake and are known to behave weird, as the harbinger of the event.
It has been repoeted earlier, cats and mice running helter skelter on street together, rather than cats chasing their bette noire, just before earthquake. A friend mine who studied Engineering close the location of the famous Latur earthquake in 1993, remembers dogs whining and cows mooing, hours before the shudders of tremors came. Sadly, we have to depend on the sixth sense of animals for predicting earthquake.
Death toll was reportedly around 20, not so bad to the immense preparedness and professional disaster handling by the authorities. Most are driving related, as there are still people who needlessly cause harakiri by adventuring out, not heeding to the warning by the authorities. I am sure in that case, the human toll can be cut down by half.
It is no coincidence that due to global warming, there is more moisture on the surface of earth, leading to catastrophic hurricanes, cyclones and snow storms than never before. But glad to advance technology, this monster storm was predicted for about a week or so ago, giving advance time to prepare.
Yet no technology has been developed to correctly predict the natural disaster of earthquake. It's said that some animals are known to have a sixth sense to sense and earthquake and are known to behave weird, as the harbinger of the event.
It has been repoeted earlier, cats and mice running helter skelter on street together, rather than cats chasing their bette noire, just before earthquake. A friend mine who studied Engineering close the location of the famous Latur earthquake in 1993, remembers dogs whining and cows mooing, hours before the shudders of tremors came. Sadly, we have to depend on the sixth sense of animals for predicting earthquake.
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