Left, a raggedy looking  Rita, GEO TECH'S only project for 2005, and right, a wild-eyed, almost
elliptical Katrina, entering the Gulf of Mexico as a category five hurricanes.
 

Hurricane Rita was the only storm GEO TECH worked on in 2005. It turned out to be a good example of what even the most minimal application can do. However, it only seems senseless to talk about hurricane Rita without mentioning her predecessor, the fatal hurricane Katrina. Why wasn't this hurricane a GEO TECH project? The persistent storms of 2004 left our only technician sick and debilitated for about 7 months. Working with piezoelectric is very physical when it means living in the energy 24 hours and losing sleep which is what happened last year. This year, as though just to be sure if that wasn't enough, our tech was dragged into court by a local government agency, over something that could have been resolved with a phone call, with the most mysterious of timing. With no one else to work on hurricane Katrina, this provided us a very unwelcome opportunity to show what happens without GEO TECH.

WITH GEO TECH: Left, hurricane Ivan in 2004. Note the zigzag pattern of the
storm's path as we pull it away from New Orleans and weaken it for landfall.
WITHOUT GEO TECH: Right, unchecked, hurricane Katrina mows her way
across the city in a straight line at full cat. 4 strength.
 

It also showed us a side to our government many never knew. After category 4 Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, roaring across New Orleans with little or no mercy, our government did not provide necessary and immediate aid to stranded victims who were without food or drinkable water. Just before the storm hit, news reports suggested that the government wanted Gulf coast oil refineries to be destroyed so that they could create a shortage and raise the price of gas and oil. If this is true, they have certainly gotten the result they wanted. Neither would this surprise us. A few years back, officials at California's state environmental department ignored our calls during devastating wildfires to make a deal with Enron. The deal was to let the wildfires burn down the power lines so that providers could raise the price of electric.

Somehow, news crews were right there after hurricane Katrina, to cover people literally dying of thirst. Many did a fine job of reporting it all. Others seemed more interested in showing people (all black) stealing what they needed (but pay who now?). Subsequently, many news stories seemed to focus mainly on stories about black victims, as though someone wanted you to think this was just another poor-black-people-with-hard-luck problem. In a subtle way, this slant would allow people to distance themselves from the event: These were another kind of people in another place and the poor always have or make problems for themselves don't they? The truth is, that many whites who were not poor, also almost died for lack of government assistance. Some, who had lost their homes in 2004, were hit again as they tried to rebuild. One mayor had to live in his office because his home was destroyed. People at all economic levels were affected. The question remains, why did the government not help the storm victims in time? Why weren't they right there with the news crews? They certainly had both the forewarning and the resources. One year and three months previous, we had warned them ourselves. Also, GEO TECH  first wrote to the President when he was governor of Texas, receiving a signed response. There was no reason at all for every assistance not to be in place and ready. However, in 1998 GEO TECH called FEMA to ask its then director to send us to the islands to work on hurricane Georges. When given his number, we were told that he would not answer us. "You mean he would just let the people die?!", we asked, incredulous at the time. "Well, yeah.", was the answer. (The official death toll for that episode was 250 people. Ironically, Louisiana's governor called in this same former FEMA director to help after hurricane Katrina.) It was wealthy private citizens and our movie and television stars who spent their own money to buy supplies, jumped in their private jets and planes, and flew down to the Gulf Coast to help with their own hands.

Hurricane Katrina was almost immediately followed by hurricane Rita. At this point, news stories were being televised every day showing victims of hurricane Katrina stranded on roofs surrounded by contaminated water. Some had been there for days; all were waving and still asking for help. In 1999 New Jersey residents found themselves in this same predicament after t.s. Floyd. Rita therefore, was looked upon with much foreboding, as it appeared it would make an already intolerable situation much worse. Watching all of this, our tech decided that good physical health was maybe not the best trade off for good mental health and obtained a graphic of hurricane Rita. (Thank you, Les.) Application to this storm was minimal, yet we obtained the maximum result. It weakened faster and easier than we thought possible with no overnight coverage. Entering Texas near the Louisiana border at category 3, it quickly weakened to category 2 on down. It did noticeably less damage than hurricane Katrina and killed fewer people than the government's mandatory evacuation did.* Too often accidents occur because people have no experience in coping with disaster. Their efforts to cope with it fail

* HURRICANE RITA:  Sitting in their bus on a highway stuck in traffic with other
evacuees, 20 seniors were incinerated alive when their oxygen tanks exploded.  By comparison,
GEO TECH project hurricane Rita, even with minimal application, weakened quickly. Deaths
directly attributable to this storm came to less than 10 people, with one account claiming
only 2. If we could pay workers it would have been zero.
 

and cause an accident because they have no experience with whatever they're doing.

What's strange about both hurricanes Katrina and Rita is that each of these storms originated in the Caribbean Sea, not the West African coast. If tracked when they originated, either storm could have been easily disposed of by our methods and harmless to anyone. For the last few years, hurricanes have demonstrated dramatically uncharacteristic behavior. Hurricanes of such a destructive magnitude not only do not follow one right after another, they do not occur like that year after year. TV scientists are at the ready to explain all of this and get the public thinking that this is normal now. Recently, storms have also traveled to areas where they do not usually go. All of this suggests very strong cloud seeding or other artificial weather modification activity. Events too, strongly suggest that this activity is deliberate, in order to create or exacerbate disasters for financial gain. We find it suspicious how local and federal government agencies spend hundreds of billions of dollars on a disaster after it occurs, but will not pay us to stop it for a fraction of those costs. Especially suspicious, is that since we outlined in detail in our letter what the cause of these storms was, they have increased in frequency and strength. How serenely elected officials and those who work for them, look upon the deaths, separation of families and loss of property these disasters bring, knowing it can all be prevented.