Economy - housing - tourism - WALMART - MEXICO
#11
Posted 17 February 2007 - 03:22 PM
#12
Posted 17 February 2007 - 03:24 PM
tornadoes are just around the corner!
SHHH! Tomatoes are just around the corner!
Contrary to popular thought, most people in tornado alley, including me, have never actually seen a tornado.
They usually hit a very narrow area and quickly disappear.
One exception was that F5 that hit Norman a few years ago with 300+ mph winds.
But that was the strongest on record.
BIGGEST SCIENCE SCANDAL EVER...Official records systematically 'adjusted'.
#13
Posted 17 February 2007 - 03:51 PM
I actually debated sharing this point in my original response as I believed some would had thought it a political bias, but the Times makes a very important point here...and along with the political and economic fallout of NAFTA (as well as the non co-operation between our two countries in several areas), Mexico is going to have a tough road ahead of it under the current government structure - with tourism hurting the most."Slower growth could be a result of tighter U.S. border enforcement. That's a sign of progress for border agents but a potential blow for Mexico, where remittances have become a pillar of the economy."
Good article - thanks jaw.
Whoops...must had been a slip of the finger on the keyboard...of course I meant tomatoes are just around the corner! (I'm planting my "Big Boys" in about a month...yum!)SHHH! Tomatoes are just around the corner!
And let's hope you continue to skirt the rage of what I consider the 2nd worst natural disaster that can happen on the planet...the tornado - they're not fun at all.
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#14
Posted 17 February 2007 - 05:03 PM
Roger:Contrary to popular thought, most people in tornado alley, including me, have never actually seen a tornado.
They usually hit a very narrow area and quickly disappear.
One exception was that F5 that hit Norman a few years ago with 300+ mph winds.
But that was the strongest on record.
My wife and I were in one, April 28, 2002. It's listed as Stark county, OH 1:58 p.m. An F3 with an asterisk, whatever that means.
http://www.vortex-ti...m/TornAlley2002
We were in a Men's Warehouse clothing store, and the sky got really dark. A tornado siren went off and the store manager told everybody to move away from the windows toward a back wall. A half a minute or so later we saw stuff blowing across the parking lot like crazy.
Never saw a funnel cloud or any rotation from inside the store, just hurricane-like winds going west to east. Then all the store windows shattered. Low pressure I guess. That was pretty cool.
The tornado went on east, right across Interstate 77 and died out quickly thereafter. Now there was some inside-store alarm going off - manager said gas leak, everybody out.
In the parking lot there was a Jeep right next to my pickup truck, with both windshields and 3 of 4 windows broken. My truck was okay, amazingly. We went home.
The next morning I leave at 5 a.m. to drive the 85 miles to my employer, and as soon as I'm in the truck and shut the driver's door the rear windshield shatters.
So that made for a fun drive.
Best,
Doug
#15
Posted 17 February 2007 - 05:35 PM
BIGGEST SCIENCE SCANDAL EVER...Official records systematically 'adjusted'.
#16
Posted 17 February 2007 - 05:41 PM
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