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Charles Green
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Re: Project storm fury really a failure?
Sat Sep 08 2007 09:28 PM

Just saw this old posting. Mexico and Cuba both complained about Storm Fury. Here is text from the transcript of a Nov. 4, 2001 broadcast by CNN with Correspondent John Zarrella interviewing Bob Sheets.:

BOB SHEETS, FORMER PROJECT DIRECTOR, STORM FURY: There was a strong push from people to say, "you must go out and seed a storm if it's heading toward Miami Beach. In fact, you're be in derelict of your duties if you don't."

ZARRELLA: But Storm Fury also had critics. The government of Mexico charged that tempering with hurricanes would deprive Mexican agriculture of rain. Fidel Castro fueled anti-American sentiment with accusations that Storm Fury would divert hurricanes into Cuba. And when Hurricane Fifi hit Honduras, there was immediate suspicion that American research was to blame, a charge that was laid to rest.

SHEETS: Fortunately for us, in 1974, when Fifi occurred, we did no flying into hurricanes, period. "

I covered Hurricane Fifi in Honduras as a correspondent for the Associated Press. There are people in Honduras today who are convinced the storm was seeded and that the seeding increased its forward speed , its size and the rainfall.
Chuck

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Project storm fury really a failure?	Lysis	Sat Sep 08 2007 09:28 PM
Re: Project storm fury really a failure?	Clark	Mon Jul 11 2005 11:46 PM
Re: Project storm fury really a failure?	Lysis	Tue Jul 12 2005 12:26 AM
Re: Project storm fury really a failure?	Clark	Tue Jul 12 2005 04:29 AM
Re: Project storm fury really a failure?	Lysis	Tue Jul 12 2005 12:15 PM
Re: Project storm fury really a failure?	Keith234	Tue Jul 12 2005 06:58 PM
Re: Project storm fury really a failure?	Lysis	Tue Jul 12 2005 09:36 PM
Re: Project storm fury really a failure?	Ed Dunham	Fri Dec 09 2005 02:07 PM
Re: Project storm fury really a failure?	Charles Green	Sat Sep 08 2007 09:28 PM
Re: Project storm fury really a failure?	Jeff5390	Thu Dec 08 2005 09:24 PM
Re: Project storm fury really a failure?	CaneTrackerInSoFl	Fri Dec 09 2005 01:27 AM
Re: Project storm fury really a failure?	Sci Am	Mon Nov 05 2007 08:47 PM
Re: Project storm fury really a failure?	Dean III	Wed Sep 12 2007 04:46 AM
Re: Project storm fury really a failure?	Ghost	Thu Sep 20 2007 01:21 AM

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