Right on Ivan's heels came the tricky hurricane Jeanne. In the track pictured below, Jeanne can be seen as a tropical storm turning in a circle over Haiti and getting stronger. Working with limited resources, GEO TECH sought to weaken the storm and turn it back out to sea. Without funds to pay an overnight crew, we were forced to leave the storm for this period without coverage. It was overnight

JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT IT WAS SAFE TO GET SOME SLEEP: Tricky Jeanne turns herself around overnight and heads for Florida to cause more trouble. Just as a tropical storm she killed over a thousand people.
 
 
 
 

that Jeanne, on a path away from Haiti, turned herself around, restrengthened to hurricane status, and headed straight for Florida. This is a good illustration of how a storm can recorrect its path if there is not consistent application overnight.

When the unpredictable Jeanne suddenly strengthened to category 3, GEO TECH resumed work to weaken it before landfall. While it is natural for hurricanes to weaken at landfall, landfall hurricanes worked on by GEO TECH weaken much faster, stay weak and do far less damage. Hurricane Jeanne did at least this, making landfall at category 3, weakening quickly to a cat 2. and on down.

Hurricanes Ivan and Jeanne were no problem in 1998 (above). They took on the
programming done for hurricane Georges and we discover something new. The
Ivan and Jeanne of 2004 came back with a vengeance to take the landfall that
was rightfully theirs. That'll show us.
 

The hurricanes Ivan and Jeanne of 1998 (above) were an obedient pair, turning north like the stubborn Georges wouldn't do and even making hurricane Bonnie's programmed curve. Later we would find out why and develop a more efficient technique for redirecting storms. The new technique worked great, making it possible to direct or redirect a storm's path with more accuracy than before. (See this year's hurricane Ivan, previous page.) The programming for this will set after a while but only temporarily and then it has to be repeated. Fortunately, this is how
 

Hurricane Karl (left) and hurricane Lisa (right) took on programming done by

hurricanes Karl and Lisa (above) could be handled. They did not threaten any land masses, both turning north while still far out in the Atlantic. While not specifically worked on, they did take on the extensive programming done for hurricanes Ivan and Jeanne. This is characteristic of storms following a hurricane that GEO TECH has worked on. First demonstrated with hurricane Danielle following hurricane Bonnie in our debut year (1998), in 2003 you see it again with hurricane Kate which followed hurricane Isabel. Redirecting hurricanes seemed an ideal solution, but next year we would have completely new challenges to face in this endeavor.