Comments on: Should Cities Prepare For the Worst?

By: Len Johnson

Len Johnson — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 23:51:10 +0000

Dropping Ice
By Len Johnson
Sun Sep 07 02:15:58 BST 2008
I have been trying to get through to anybody who might listen. I’ve e-mailed so many people from the President to Anderson Cooper, and no response. After a hurricane hits cold water up north, it loses its strength. Why not drop ice from a specially designed aircraft like the ones that drop retardant and water on a fire. They have small ice makers that make cubes in less than 6 minutes. You just need to expand on the idea, suck up some water, freeze it and drop that ice down into the heat towers near the center of the hurricane. Depending on how much you cool it down, could be equal to how much power you lessen it by. It could easily be turned into nothing more than a rain storm. There was an article in Pop Sc that displays the heat towers in the hurricanes. It may also be the same in tornadoes. With as much financial damage from one level 4 or greater storm, spending the money to develop or just load one aircraft with enough ice for the experiment would justify it, especially if just one life was saved.

By: Jackie Stone

Jackie Stone — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 20:30:22 +0000

So, $10 billion to erect sea gates in New York versus $58 million economic damage & revenue loss! Hmmmmn – there’s an English saying “penny wise and pound foolish”.

By: Peter M. Lutterbeck, M.D.

Peter M. Lutterbeck, M.D. — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 16:47:44 +0000

Periods of global warming (e.g. 1500 years ago), ice ages, periodic super volcano eruptions, earthquakes on land and sea with following tsunamis have occurred for millions of years, long before the human species appeared on the scene.
Mankind’s insatiable need and desire to live along coastal waters invites the disasters sooner or later. To a degree one can take some, but very limited precautions once Mother Nature gets riled up.
What’s different these days, is the real fear of looting and non-contained violence when havoc strikes and the lights go out. As greed and material possessions characterize current culture and dominate Western societies, individuals will be compelled to arm and defend themselves in the cities. Even in what is considered safe and rural as the “Preppers” are doing mobilizing themselves hoping to deal with Armageddon and slaughter the Four Horses of the Apocalypse. Will the Mayan December 21st 2012 End of the World scenario come to pass? One never knows “Until the “Fat Lady Sings” – but there’s no record that Mayans sang!