Hurricane Body: Well, we definitely know that summer is here. Here, in Florida we are getting early storms....this is a really early Hurricane...we normally tend to get them later in the season when the Gulf waters are warmer. We lost power this morning due to a tornado touching down quite near to where I live....I slept through the whole thing...no time to panic I was out of it! Now it seems that more bands will be marching through bringing fierce winds & heavy rains...even though we will not be hit full force by this little monster it still packs a whallop.

I'm just hoping that this is not a forerunner of events to come..last year was so totally ridculous the number of storms that hit this state. The Tampa Bay area was on so many alerts my head was spinning...people had their windows taped, boarded up - survival supplies on hand throughout our entire summer last year.

Then I hear a newscast this morning that in the 1960's they had a special program in place to test whether "seeding" the air inside a starting hurricane would reduce the destructiveness of the storm....well, they did two storms and they were not as destructive as they should of been....so wouldn't you think they would delve into this program more? Oh, no...our great leaders that were, and our great leaders today...buckled to the complaints of Castro (yes, Castro) who said that we were able to direct the storms to hit HIS island..(shades of Dr. No!) and complaints from Mexico - their government complained that our doing the "seeding" reducing the strength of the hurricances would cause Mexico not to get their SHARE OF THE RAIN!!

I can remember hearing about this program when I was a lot younger...but didn't pay much attention...at the time I thought "Cool! What if they could do this?" When I heard no more about it I figured that the program was a failure and no one can really even attempt to control Mother Nature's forces. Now, so many years later I learn that was not the case. They could not PROVE that it was their "seeding" efforts that caused the two storms to grow smaller...and due to the disgruntled diplomatic ties we totally caved. Totally wrong.

Makes me question how many other "projects" were started, getting some results and "pulled" due to outside objections. Meanwhile, if we dare to even say something out of context about any other country we are villified