Posted on 09/21/2005 3:01:29 PM PDT by RWR8189
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - An Idaho weatherman says Japan's Yakuza mafia used a Russian-made electromagnetic generator to cause Hurricane Katrina in a bid to avenge itself for the Hiroshima atom bomb attack - and that this technology will soon be wielded again to hit another U.S. city.
Meteorologist Scott Stevens, a nine-year veteran of KPVI-TV in Pocatello, said he was struggling to forecast weather patterns starting in 1998 when he discovered the theory on the Internet. It's now detailed on Stevens' Web site, http://www.weatherwars.info, the Idaho Falls Post Register reported.
Scientists discount Stevens' claims as ludicrous.
"I have been doing hurricane research for the better part of 20 years now, and there was nothing unusual to me about any of the satellite imagery of Katrina," said Rob Young, a hurricane expert at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, N.C., quoted in the Idaho Falls Post Register for Tuesday's editions. "It's laughable to think it could have been manmade."
Stevens, who is among several people to offer alternative and generally discounted theories for the storm that flooded New Orleans, says a little-known oversight in physical laws makes it possible to create and control storms - especially if you're armed with the Cold War-era weapon said to have been made by the Russians in 1976. Stevens became convinced of the existence of the Russian device when he observed an unusual Montana cold front in 2004.
"I just got sick to my stomach because these clouds were unnatural and that meant they had (the machine) on all the time," Stevens said. "I was left trying to forecast the intent of some organization rather than the weather of this planet."
Stevens said oddities in Hurricane Katrina storm patterns underpin his theory.
And, according to his Web site, so does the fact that Katrina and Ivan - the name given to a destructive hurricane that hit Florida in September 2004 - both sound Russian.
Stevens' bosses at KPVI-TV say their employee can think and say what he wants - as long as he keeps the station out of the debate and acknowledges that his views are his own opinion. Bill Fouch, KPVI's general manager, compared Stevens' musings to political or religious beliefs that journalists suppress on the job.
"He doesn't talk about it on his weathercast," Fouch said. "He's very knowledgeable about weather, and he's very popular."
(/sarc)
Pshaw, the Reptilians are busily terraforming panet-X, -Marge Simpson's Sister claims this is the work of the Greys, she said to burn a white candle and draw a circle of white light around something.
Will this "theory" be required teaching in schools, too?
I stand corrected, it is caused by the vacuum that IS MSNBC. Just named in honor of their newest anchor.
Well, that explains why the Reptilians haven't been answering my email. I thought they were still mad at me for the anal probe thing...
Does the looney left know about this? LOL!
LMAO! Ahhhhh, those were the days, they don't make 'em like they used to eh!!
In 2005 AD, war was beginning...
"cloaca" probe... "hyuck" ;>
Hyata! Call UltraMan on Atomic Princess phone! Alert Science Patrol to pile into Corvair and take corners on two wheels in pursuit of Yakuza Creature! Also call young guy reporter, Dr Science and, beautiful daughter in high heels! Broadcast on all channels! Destroy all Hurricaines!
Oh please don't say that. It wouldn't take much to push some of my co-workers into that belief system. I have trouble enough dealing with them now.
Secretary of Defense William Cohen at an April 1997 counterterrorism conference sponsored by former Senator Sam Nunn. Quoted from DoD News Briefing, Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen, Q&A at the Conference on Terrorism, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and U.S. Strategy, University of Georgia, Athens, Apr. 28, 1997.
KYOTO !!!!!
IMHO, this guy is just trying to steal Allah's thunder(you should pardon the weather pun!).
Katrina may have been a huge ill wind, but look how the citizens of TX are now reaping the benefits of America's crash course on emergency preparedness. My prayers and best wishes for all the folks from the Keys to Houston.
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