how do we stop hurricanes?
340871
We can't stop hurricanes.  We can only find ways that bring human death and property damages are brought to a minimum.
750059
lol, in reality america can't save nothing, look at when hurricane katrina hit, what did they do, lol pray to god to make it go away and when that failed they cried at its destruction,
655468
move everyone away from the ocean
461908
We are having bad storms tomorrow too so a few things I would do is make sure you have an area to hide, clean and ready, have shoes ready, and have a radio or t.v. ready to find out information...
905472
It's important to track hurricanes so that massive civilizations aren't ruined or devastated as drastically.
891749
You put something to stop the full force of the erosion power being placed on an area.  \n\nShort term .....Straw on the ground to disrupt the wind flow, plant annual grasses to keep the top soil tied to the ground and the wind disrupted.  Divert the water to drainage areas already established.  \n\nLong term.... Change land use practices.  Plant trees to modify the wind flow, plant perennial plants with need less tilling to grow.  Change to no-till/low till farming practices.  Look beyond what has been done and find ways to think anew.  Put large rocks and rip-rap along river banks.  Keep large livestock from breaking down the river embankments.  \n\nThese are just a few of the things that can be done to prevent erosion.
231317
I think we need to stay out of everyone else's affairs and only offer help to them when they experience a natural disaster. That way, we appear sympathetic without being invasive.  We should use our troops to protect our own soil.
939631
You have a good point. I just returned from a trip to the Mississippi coast. There is still a lot of storm damage yet to be fixed. Insurance companies have refused to pay settlements claiming the storm surge flooding caused all the damage. People are still living in campers in the driveways of their destroyed homes. More than half of the businesses haven't reopened, and lots of people are without jobs.\nIt was hard for me to believe I was still in America.
380970
Hurricanes are intense low pressure  areas that form over warm ocean waters in the summer and early fall. Their source of energy is water vapor  which is evaporated from the ocean surface. Water vapor is the "fuel" for the hurricanes because it releases the "latent heat of condensation" when it condenses to form clouds and rain, warming the surrounding air. (This heat energy was absorbed by the water vapor when it was evaporated from the warm ocean surface, cooling the ocean in the process.) Usually, the heat released in this way in tropical thunderstorms is carried away by wind shear, which blows the top off the thunderstorms. But when there is little wind shear, this heat can build up, causing low pressure to form. The low pressure causes wind to begin to spiral inward toward the center of the low. These winds help to evaporate even more water vapor from the ocean, spiraling inward toward the center, feeding more showers and thunderstorms, and warming the upper atmosphere still more. The showers and thunderstorms where all of this energy is released are usually organized into bands (sometimes called "rainbands" or "feeder bands"), as well as into an "eyewall" encircling the center of the storm. The eyewall is where the strongest winds occur, which encircle the warmest air, in the eye of the hurricane. This warmth in the eye is produced by sinking air, which sinks in response to rising air in the thunderstorms. The winds diminish rapidly moving from the eyewall to the inside of the relatively cloud-free eye, where calm winds can exist.\nhurricane eyes seen from the Space Shuttle and from aircraft\nHurricane intensity is based upon the highest sustained (1 minute average) wind speed the hurricane is producing. The "Saffir-Simpson" scale rates hurricane strength in this way from Category 1 to Category 5. These categories were chosen based upon the amount of damage that each category can produce.\nIntensity Wind Speed Damage\nCategory 1 74- 95 mph MINIMAL: tree branches, shrubs, unanchored mobile homes\nCategory 2 96-110 mph MODERATE: mobile homes, poorly constructed buildings, some trees down\nCategory 3 111-130 mph EXTENSIVE: small buildings damaged, large trees down, mobile homes destroyed\nCategory 4 131-155 mph EXTREME: outer walls damaged, roof failure on small buildings, extensive damage to doors and windows, mobile homes destroyed\nCategory 5 >155 mph CATASTROPHIC: complete roof failure on many buildings, some buildings destroyed, severe window and door damage, mobile homes destroyed\nIn low-lying areas, much of the damage from hurricanes can be from the "storm surge", in which water being blown onshore by the high winds rises rapidly. The storm surge can destroy the lower floors of some buildings, or even destroy the foundations of residences causing the homes to wash away. The storm surge can also trap residents from evacuating along low-lying escape routes.\n\nHurricanes almost always travel poleward at the end of their life cycle, helping to transport excess heat out of the tropics toward higher latitudes. They gradually die as they move over cooler waters, which do not have the heat energy necessary to evaporate sufficent water vapor into the atmosphere to fuel the hurricane. If the hurricane crosses over to land, the heat source is removed entirely. With the removal of the energy source, and the greater surface friction of the land's terrain and vegetation, the hurricane's winds rapidly decrease.
476972
I don't think it was preventable at all.\n\nIf you piss off a large proportion of the world for long enough then someone is going to do something crazy.\n\nEven with the somewhat police state methods now being used we're still due for more terrorism. \n\nHurricane Katrina couldn't have been prevented as it was caused by weather, but the reaction in terms of getting people out could have been better. So could actually rebuilding the levies properly before the hurricane. bit of a pity most of the national guard  and army engineers who were supposed to be working on it were out of the state relieving other national guards sent to iraq or sent there themselves....
556034
You obviously have no concept of the energy involved in even a simple thunderstorm. Short of multiple thermo-nuclear bombs, there is no feasible way to deliver the energy necessary to match even a strong tropical depression. Oh, and then there is the problem of controlling the result. \n\nUntil scientists can predict the weather accurately, there is no way they can control it.\n\nAs to Tsunami's, these are not a weather event but rather the result of a earthquake. In the realm of large energy releases, this type of event makes the biggest hurricane seems like a hiccup.
587932
Stand up to them and stop it.*
213282
Perhaps Jimbo and shaved lady ARE the authorities to be alerted.  \n\nThose storms were pretty nasty, from what I saw on the news.  Why not just move down here to New Orleans?  We have MUCH better weather!  LOL  \n\nLeave work early, go home, take a nap.
1092988
I'm in Arizona. The reason we are having so many fires is because we are in a major drought. The second reason is that many environmentalists fought the thinning of the forest that they wanted to do to avoid a disasterous fire. Since they didn't do that, nature is doing it for them.\n\nThey do say that Global Warming may have an effect on the hurricanes though.
643335
stop the wars. help those less fortunate then us to live a better life. give help to society where you can. be tolerant of people.
564729
no. the problem is that all this "enforcement" costs money and time and we seem to want these things but then we get pissed when the govt tries to enforce them. Big govt is not good. We need to keep our selves safe. keep ourselves reponsible, and dammit, keep ourselves from dying from hurricanes ALL BY OURSELVES!
78197
Anytime you ask statistical question such as this, you need data to figure out any kind of estimate.  One of the problems with any type of weather forecasting this far into the future is that there is not enough data to calculate, and hence, predict what will happen on a particular day in a particular area far months into the future.  \n\nAccording to the National Weather Service webpage for your area: "Hurricanes are products of an interaction between both the ocean and the atmosphere.  Fueled by energy from the warm ocean waters, they can be steered by the easterly trade winds, as well as the temperate westerlies.  Some hurricanes, especially strong ones, are even able to alter the environment that steers them.  This is a major reason why it can sometimes be very difficult to predict where a particular hurricane will track."\n\nUnfortunately, you are going to have to wait until Labor Day Weekend, 2006 to get your answer, but you can contact the Tampa Bay Weather Service Office if you would like to talk to a professional.