Blue Canyon, CA, 1917.
Mount Rainier, WA, 1917
North Dakota, 1966
No date or location given.
Manhattan, NYC, NY in the late 1960's
Posted on 01/05/2005 8:29:29 AM PST by 1LongTimeLurker
What do you expect from a state that elected Howard Dean its governor? [snicker]
That has to be very close to the top of my list of the most idiotic movies I've ever seen. Just dumber than a box of rocks.
You win!
Agreed...if global warming is happening, I'm all in favor of it. I'd recommend everyone read Michael Crichton's new State of Fear; a great novel which incorporates all the views I've had on global warming for years, and more. Great book.
Gasp! You make coats out of your terriers!?!
Women and minorities hardest hit.
Don't forget about the children, it's all about the children.
Oh man, I agree 100 percent. It was billed as being based on scientific fact....the only science that jumble of environazi rhetoric was based on is the environmental report ordered by the Clinton administration; the one that claimed global warming is responsible for everything from precipitation to car jackings and was officially rebutted as complete bunk by a group of highly respected scientists who traveled all the way to DC to protest it.
Blue Canyon, CA, 1917.
Mount Rainier, WA, 1917
North Dakota, 1966
No date or location given.
Manhattan, NYC, NY in the late 1960's
The hardwoods are so void in the region! I guess it was all logged out in the 1800's and it was found too rocky and infertile for farmland.
Actually, the movie was based on a book by Whitley Streiber and Art Bell, which, in turn, was based on Bell's notion that events in the world are "quickening." Bell even wrote a book (less successful than Day After Tomorrow) and titled it "The Quickening." It's all the new age crackpot nonsense rolled into one goofy mess of a story.
Nobody mentioned an Alberta Clipper, we had a good one in '78. Dropped 27 inches of snow on northern Indiana and we were snowed in for 5 days...Had a good time, do it again in a minute...
LOL...what part of PA are you in Crumb? I am east of Pittsburgh (Irwin) and it is just the usual rainy, dreary WPA winter day. It looks like the nasty stuff will stay north of here...Good luck to you...and don't forget toilet paper. If possible, drive, in a panic, of course, to the nearest supermarket (Giant Iggle if you are in the western part of the state)...purchase as much TP, milk and bread as your buggy will hold. Now you are ready for the storm!
ART BELL?!?! You're kidding! I was told several times by different people that everything in the movie was based on "scientific fact", which led me to assume the nutball theories outlined must derive from Algore's report. And yet that movie, combined with the convenient (for the left) tsunamis are helping to generate paranoid global warmingcooling theories behind all of these "environmental catastrophe" stories in the news
I'm about a mile from the NY State border.
Art Bell and Whitley Streiber wrote "The Coming Global Superstorm," on which the movie was based. On Streiber's website, the description of "Superstorm" is "The book that inspired the Day After Tomorrow! Now with a new afterword by Whitley and Art." Bell and Streiber had been hawking "Superstorm" for at least a couple of years before the movie was made.
Then Streiber wrote a book titled "The Day After Tomorrow," which is based on the movie -- to take advantage, in book sales, of the movie sales. The description on his website for this tome is "First, Whitley and Art wrote the book that inspired the movie. Now Whitley's written the book inspired BY the movie!"
The only thing scientific about any of this is the following formula:
Gullible people + smooth-talking con artists with new age radio show + Hollywood Leftists who saw an opportunity to not-so-subtly bash GWB and Dick Cheney before the 2004 election = pathetic, but money-making movie .
There's a sucker born every minute. Made Scientology a success, why not this stupid movie?
"In 1999 a major climatological study predicted that the Earth will soon be warmer than it has been in millions of years."
That would be the Clinton administration, made to order study detailing how every event on the globe is connectable to global warming.
From this site, with an overview of The Coming Global Superstorm The book is Bell and Streiber's crop circle method of rebutting the report with their climatological, rubber band theory.
Not that it matters that both of us are right...the whole thing is still nothing but a snake oil sale.
The problem centers around the one decent snow every 4 years. Most people don't even own a car longer than 4 years. So many people, myself included, do not buy separate rims with Michelin Artic Alpins. We just tough it out.
I've been driving for 20 years and have never been in an accident. Although I've been stuck a couple of times.
The city can grind to a halt, but it's not the fault of bad driving.
Alarmist - yes. Potential - yes. CA is already fairly saturated from a couple of weeks of general rain. I also have first hand experience when moist tropical air overides arctic air - lots of white stuff. Best case is for Rockies which need excessive moisture to overcome drought conditions. Bringing my umbrella to work just the same. ;)
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