--- "Goa's Pride <goa-world.com>" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Some Reasons for Nature�s Fury > by Nandkumar Kamat ... > The local > observatory as usual had a very speculative > impression of the phenomena. > Actually it gave a message of hopelessness by saying > that it does not make any > forecasts for such freakish weather phenomena and > depends on the feed from > Mumbai for weather alerts.
Reminds of the great London storm way back in October 1989 (I think) when Michael Fish, the weatherman at one of the TV stations, informed viewers that someone telephoned him that the French had predicted a storm on the way, but that the Brits had nothing to fear as the Met hadn't told him anything untoward. That storm uprooted a great number of trees, especially at Greenwich. We too had a tree fallen down in our backyard (from 3 houses away), and it was the first "blackout" experienced by me in my twelve years in London. As an aside, a couple of days later the stock market crashed sending house-prices falling ... I still remember one of these oddities hitting Goa in June 1974 (I think), when thunder was non-stop - almost one "crash" every three seconds, lasting over an hour. The power of nature is something to be reckoned with ... Cheers, Gabriel de Figueiredo. Melbourne - Australia. Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. http://au.movies.yahoo.com
