HURRICANE ISABEL 2003

Snapshots of a quickly weakening Isabel as she makes landfall in North Carolina.

Hurricane Isabel was the only real storm to threaten New York in 2003, killing 25 people as she washed her way across the northeast from where she made landfall in the Carolinas. With the help of trusty friends, GEO TECH was able to get the storm down to a category 2 from a category 4 before its landfall, weakening it quickly as it moved inland. These limited but crucial victories made major differences in death tolls and damage. Just when the storm was expected to turn its wrath towards the city, it makes a sudden wobble, turning, not north as predicted, but decidedly due west. This was the unmistakable influence of the work of
GEO TECHNOLOGIES. To be sure our work was not missed this time, we called three local television news stations, explaining it was the company's intention to keep the storm away from New York City, although we were uncertain as to what direction the storm would actually take. Without the personnel to work to force it back out to sea, we knew the storm would most likely go its own way. This is the quirky thing about hurricanes because although it did take its own path, it still avoided New York with such a wide berth that even New Jersey was spared of its usual floods.

Strangely, despite our calls and even after it was obvious that hurricane Isabel was moving away from the city, news stations continued to report its approach, just as they had with hurricane Bonnie in '98. Schools were closed and dire warnings were issued. Yet again, just as in '98, New York enjoyed a clear and sunny day instead. Work on hurricane Isabel took five days altogether. Right behind hurricane Isabel

Hurricane Isabel avoids New York.

came hurricane Kate. No threat to life or land, Kate, as with hurricane Danielle in 1998 behind hurricane Bonnie, took on programming attempted for the previous hurricane turning North while still far out in the Atlantic (See track photo left). Note that hurricane Kate's sudden change of course to the north begins almost parallel to the point at which hurricane Isabel made landfall. Unfortunately,

Hurricane Kate avoids land altogether.

hurricane Isabel was too close to landfall when the programming was started for it to be turned back out to sea without working continuously and overnight. The company's chief technician explains: "If you can catch them [hurricanes] all the way out in the water, its an easier job to just turn them around. Once a hurricane senses land, it adds another element to the work. At that point it becomes a fight against their natural instinct to go for the land mass and tear it up. You really can't stop them, even if you do turn them around. So then you're fighting against the storm's effects and movements. This means intensified programming, especially overnight. For this we need to hire additional technicians. "

With this preventative technology, the programming actually sticks after a while and will turn away subsequent storms. If profit-from-disaster schemes are uncovered finally, loss of life and property from hurricanes and other weather related disasters could be a thing of the past.