These photos illustrate the effects of  GEO TECH's powerful technology on Hurricane Floyd.
In the first picture from the left you can see the category 5 storm headed straight for Florida.
The next photo shows the storm growing weaker and steering away from Florida, missing it
altogether. The last photo shows the hurricane now weakened to a tropical storm.

The state of Florida, the City of New York, Long Island, many of its businesses and more than a few reinsurance and insurance companies are certainly indebted to this unique company for its work on hurricane Floyd. In 1999, Florida stood helpless as hurricane Floyd threatened to finish the job hurricane Andrew had started in 1992: its total destruction. No one could mistake the fear in then Gov. Jeb Bush's eyes as he directed emergency services and evacuation procedures on camera. Having just taken office at the time, he was completely unprepared for such an emergency. What he didn't know was that miles away in New York City, it was all being handled by GEO TECHNOLOGIES.

In actuality hurricane Floyd couldn't have had worse timing. The company's only computer was down and it had none of the graphics needed to work on this. A rainy bus ride to a friend's house solved this problem (Thanks to Ms. Barbara Wright of Brooklyn, who doesn't understand this technology and thinks it sounds crazy but helped us nonetheless.), and work started Monday, Sept. 13 at 6pm.”  Not a moment too soon it was. As Floyd crept alongside the Florida coast eyeing it hungrily, GEO TECH applied its exclusive organic style to moving the storm off track and weakening its hurricane force winds. This one - two punch proved to be a knockout for Floyd, which overall turned out not to be the onslaught it had first promised to be in the south. It eventually made landfall in Cape Fear, So. Carolina, by this time, barely a category 2 hurricane, less than half its original strength. Said one So. Carolina resident later on the news, “It wudn't 'nat bad.” Moving quickly up the coast after that, rapidly losing strength all the way, it dissolved into the heavy tropical rains most landfall hurricanes end up as.

Hurricane Floyd turns away from Florida and quickly weakens to a tropical storm.
 

The company had sent email to the Appalachian Regional Council and to several members of Congress who serve states where a drought emergency was declared. The mails warned them that the drought would attract hurricanes like Floyd and offered the services to correct the problem before that happened. Not one has answered to date and this is not the first time GEO TECHNOLOGIES has anticipated trouble and tried to warn officials. In 1998 Texas had a similar drought that brought storm after storm off the Gulf of Mexico, flooding the state repeatedly. GEO TECH'S chief technician called FEMA and spoke with their regional director saying we would clear up the storms in the Gulf and commenting on the cloud seeding activities being done in the area. At the moment, tropical storm Hermine was milling around the Gulf looking for a place to make landfall. We discussed the ideal spot for her with the FEMA director suggesting the drought weary states towards the east coast. Just as our chief was asking if he could put us in touch with his chief he suddenly had to rush off the phone. We got busy redirecting Hermine and clearing the Gulf as promised. To our credit, no storms would form again in the Gulf for a number of years after that. Soon after Hermine however, between the cloud seeding and the existing drought, hurricane Madeline formed in the Pacific, crossed Mexico, and flooded Texas from the other direction as a tropical storm. Today, it is difficult to find any record of a hurricane Madeline for that year at all, unlike other storms. For our part, we will never forget the reporter on the Weather Channel who stopped and glared just momentarily into the camera as he announced that Texas was flooded. We had called the station and tried to get them to warn Texans beforehand but to no avail. Once their producer found that we weren't calling to buy some air time they weren't interested in anything else we had to say. We got around this by calling another department and asking someone there to get the word up to their anchors, which they did. Only one mentioned it.

Ironically, GEO TECH'S work on hurricane Floyd, would eventually serve New York City in 2001. Had it made landfall in Florida at category 5, Floyd would have meant certain death for many Florida residents and certain homelessness for many others. In addition, reinsurance claims would have placed such a burden on the companies responsible for paying them, that there might well have been no money to pay claims for 9/11. At this time, reinsurance companies were still paying claims from hurricane Andrew. In the end it was all about having a contract. "If we could afford to hire technicians to work overnight, we could have turned Floyd back out into the Atlantic. If you don't work continuously, the storm just uses the off time to recorrect its position.", says the company's founder.

In stark contrast to surrounding areas, especially New Jersey, New York City and Long Island experienced only minor problems. New York City had had more trouble from hurricane Dennis (not a GEO TECH project) just before. Long Island Power officials declared that the storm was so mild, their technicians were able to work in it, restoring power even as it went out. “We knew it could have been a lot worse”, said one LIPA spokesman on the evening news, still looking greatly relieved, no doubt having seen and heard about conditions elsewhere. New York was just a bit better prepared this time to try to meet the potential crisis that would have come with the storm. The previous year, as weathermen forecast category 3 hurricane Bonnie headed straight for the city, residents weren't even warned of the dangers. New Yorkers have no idea of what a category 3 hurricane means. They haven't had to ever deal with one.

Whether the city was prepared or not, hurricane Floyd made dramatically clear how valuable GEO TECHNOLOGIES’ local protection of New York City really is. News footage showed New Jersey residents standing on the roofs of their homes completely surrounded by floodwaters, waiting desperately to be rescued. With every neighboring locality badly flooded, had evacuation been necessary, New York's residents would have had no place to run. Manhattan and Queens are probably the most vulnerable areas of the City. Queens is really just a swamp made solid with landfill. If it flooded like New Jersey, it would probably be like flooding New Orleans, only without any levees and pumps to take out the water. Most residents would probably never see their homes again. Manhattan, being just a narrow island, would simply be completely inundated, with thousands of the luckier residents being trapped in their high rises.