Water Levels in Lake Powell - This 'lake' is a reservoir

...The graph shows Lake Powell’s water level from 2000 to 2007, measured in millions of acre-feet. This measure of lake volume counts the acres of land surface covered by a foot of water. The water level from May 2006, superimposed onto the satellite image, had actually rebounded somewhat from the 2005 low. After peaking in late 2000 with more than 20 million acre-feet, the reservoir’s water level sharply declined to roughly 8 million in mid-2005....

Part of the problem with The Powell Dam is it was constructed in the worst area of the country possible. It's banks are imbedded in Navaho Sandstone. Navajo Sandstone is porous and requires water to saturate the holes in the rock before the lack level rises.

The last 12 hours over the Gulf of Mexico is provinging to be interesting.

October 16, 2007
1415z


THIS FORECAST was nine hours ago, things have changed a bit with sunrise.

National Weather ServiceTropical Weather Outlook and Summary
TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
530 AM EDT TUE OCT 16 2007
FOR THE NORTH ATLANTIC...CARIBBEAN SEA AND THE GULF OF MEXICO...
A WEAK AREA OF LOW PRESSURE OVER THE SOUTHWESTERN GULF OF MEXICO IS
ACCOMPANIED BY SOME DISORGANIZED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS.
UPPER-LEVEL WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO BECOME INCREASINGLY UNFAVORABLE
FOR DEVELOPMENT OF THIS SYSTEM OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS AS IT
MOVES NORTHWESTWARD TO NORTHWARD.
TROPICAL CYCLONE FORMATION IS NOT EXPECTED DURING THE NEXT 48 HOURS.

FORECASTER PASCH





October 13, 2007


1330z


UNISYS Water Vapor Satellite north and west hemisphere







Rains pound North Texas, trigger flooding, fatal accident (click here)
Storms cause fatal accident, flooding in Dallas, Collin counties
12:00 AM CDT on Tuesday, October 16, 2007
By MICHAEL E. YOUNG / The Dallas Morning News


myoung@dallasnews.com
Strong thunderstorms Monday dumped more than 5 inches of rain on parts of North Texas, snarling morning commuter traffic, causing at least one fatal accident and triggering widespread flooding across Dallas and Collin counties.
"Plano is under water," Plano Fire Capt. Mark Vice said Monday as his crews scrambled to answer 30 high-water rescue calls from trapped motorists or those who had abandoned their cars in the flooding.
Tumbling water turned suburban streets into mountain creeks and left the creeks roaring like rivers. In Carrollton, Plano and parts of North Dallas, drivers dealt delicately with water high enough to lap at the bottom of their cars and puddles broad enough to cover six-lane roads.
The heavy clouds pushing ahead of a cold front also capped the region's unseasonably warm weather, for a day at least, holding high temperatures in the mid-70s, the lowest in five months....
...The broad band of storms that swooped across North Texas early Monday and lingered into the early afternoon was the second round of rough weather in less than 24 hours.
"We had a lot of moisture, a lot of warm air from the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday, enough to set off the storms we saw Sunday night," Ms. Dunn said. "And in the morning, a squall line developed just ahead of a cold front in Oklahoma, and it redeveloped in central and north central Texas."
Rainfall from the first batch of storms was widely scattered. But the line of storms that blew through Monday dumped heavy rains across a broad swath of North Texas, from an inch or so in some areas, to about 2 inches at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport and more than 5 inches in portions of northern Dallas and southwestern Collin counties.
"The storms moved fast," Ms. Dunn said, "which was good. Otherwise, we would have had even more flooding problems."
Heavy rains pushed the Elm Fork of the Trinity River to flood stage in Carrollton, along with White Rock Creek, and forecasters expected the Trinity to reach the flood stage in downtown Dallas on Monday night.
But it was on area streets where the sudden rush of water caused widespread problems.
Mud poured from a construction site at Legacy Drive and State Highway 121 in Plano, snarling morning traffic there. High winds knocked over construction signs in Grand Prairie and downed power lines in Dallas.
About 20,000 electric customers were without power about 10 a.m. Monday, according to Oncor Electric Delivery, but that number was down to about 5,000 by mid-afternoon, scattered across the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
Police said heavy rain contributed to a fatal accident Monday morning in which a Denton man lost control of his car and slid sideways into the path of an 18-wheeler.
Denton police spokesman Jim Bryan said the driver, who had not been identified late Monday, was traveling north on Fort Worth Drive when his car skidded into oncoming traffic.
"Preliminary investigation shows he was probably driving too fast for the weather conditions and did not have good tires," the spokesman said.
In Farmersville, a pickup hydroplaned on rain-soaked U.S. Highway 380 and slid into the back of a school bus carrying 20 students, police said. The crash pushed the bus into a roadside ditch and onto its side.
Farmersville school officials said the students and bus driver suffered minor injuries. The driver of the truck wasn't hurt, police said.
The storms pushed through Dallas just as Southwest Airlines introduced its new boarding system for passengers, causing a crush of weather-related delays.
"Other than the weather, the new boarding process is going as we had hoped," said Beth Harbin, a Southwest spokeswoman.
The morning thunderstorms caused airlines to cancel about 110 flights out of 950 at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. By the afternoon, airport officials said schedules were getting back to normal with delays easing from 90 minutes to about 30 minutes.
At Dallas Love Field, Southwest Airlines canceled 13 flights before 9 a.m. and was experiencing delays of up to two hours by the afternoon as it worked to get back on schedule.
Staff writers Theodore Kim and Suzanne Marta, and Donna Fielder of the Denton Record-Chronicle contributed to this report.

The weather at Scott Base, Ross Island, Antarctica (Crystal Ice Chime) is:

New Webcam at Higgins, Germany, Antarctica with a far better view. Thank you, Germany.


October 16, 2007
1830 and 02 seconds
Higgins Base, Germany, Antarctica

This view has changed as well. If one notes the 'pipe cross' in the background; it is where penguins usually gather. There may be a few at the shoreline, but, noted there is also dearly little sea ice and this is just the beginning of spring in Antarctica. Ah, oh. Click on title to entry to see new camera at the German Research Station, then look to left column and bring down menu at 'webcam' and clink on OHIG-WEB1 and 'page down' to see assembly of new Higgins Webcam. Very nice indeed.


October 16, 2007
Scott Base, New Zealand, Antarctica
1851

The view from the webcam has changed. Someone is home !


October 16, 2007
Scott Base, New Zealand, Antarctica
1952 and 39 seconds

Why is it, the diplomacy of George Walker Bush always GOES SOUTH? First Russia, now Israel ! I'm tired of this MESS all the time !

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice with the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, in Ramallah.

As Rice pushes for progress in Israeli-Palestinian talks, UN Rights Expert denounces the Quartet (click at title of entry)
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October 15, 2007
The UN Human Rights Council's Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the occupied Palestinian territory, John Dugard, has said today that the UN Secretary General should pull out of the Quartet that the U.S. has put together to support President Bush’s moves for Middle East peace -- unless the Quartet begins to pay due regard to the deteriorating human rights situation in the Palestinian territory....

At lease Olmert finished negotiations with Lebanon. Lebanon is stating they have discovered a plot against the UN Peacekeepers in Southern Lebanon. What was it I said. "The Middle East has to solve it's own problems." There is no other way. The diplomatic corp of the USA has no money, no military and means to bring brevity to any negotiations.

Report: Swap gives Israel papers written by Arad (click here)
By Amos Harel, Barak Ravid and Yoav Stern, Haaretz Correspondents
Hezbollah gave Israel documents written in Ron Arad's handwriting on Monday, during the first swap conducted since the Second Lebanon War, the Lebanese daily Al-Akbar on Tuesday. Israel said the swap was part of a larger negotiation process on the release of two of its soldiers abducted by the guerilla group in July 2006. The paper did not specify when the documents were written, but reported that they apparently dated to when the abducted Israel Air Force navigator was held in Lebanon. Arad went missing when his fighter jet went down over Lebanon in 1986....

News / Israel, Hezbollah carry out first swap since Second Lebanon War (click here for video)

By Haaretz Staff and Channel 10
Haaretz.com/Channel 10 news roundup for October 15, 2007.
In this edition: Israel and Hezbollah carry out a first swap since the Prime Minister Olmert avoids commenting on the three probes against him.
The jailed killer of Yitzhak Rabin requests a leave to attend his unborn son's circumcision.

Hizbullah and Israel trade prisoner and bodies (click here)

Swap at naqoura raises hopes that larger deals could be forthcomingBy Rym Ghazal and Mohammed Zaatari Daily Star staff

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

BEIRUT/NAQOURA: Israel and Hizbullah exchanged the remains of an Israeli civilian
for a captive Lebanese fighter and the bodies of two of his comrades on Monday during a swap conducted under tight security at the Naqoura border crossing point. The bodies of two Hizbullah fighters, Ali Wezwaz, from Mais al-Jabal and Mohammad Dimashqiyeh from Aita al-Jabal, along with Lebanese fighter Hassan Naim Akil, were exchanged on Monday in return for the body of Israeli citizen Gabriel Dwait, an Ethiopian Jewish immigrant who drowned in the Mediterranean Sea on January 20, 2005....

This sounds like an ambitious man running for the nominee to the Democratic Party. Right? (click here)

"I strongly support universal, single-payer, government- provided or government-funded health care."-- Al Gore

Look at this mess. This is NOT an "Act of God," it's Human Induced Global Warming. Tell the insurance co. THAT !

A tarp covers the roof of Ashraf Eshra’s house on Bay Ridge Avenue, which has not been repaired since a tornado ripped through Brooklyn in August.

They live to tell about it and the insurance companies don't want to hear it. You know, even with Kartina. It was not an ACT OF GOD. Acts of God is a Bible Book (click here). So ANYONE suffering at the hand of insurance companies that insist they aren't covered, remind them, it was a CLIMATE event caused by Human Induced Global Warming, GOD - HAD - NOTHING - TO - DO - WITH - IT ! Tell Walker Bush, the traitor of the American people, the same thing, do it today and save your life !!!!

Human Induced Global Warming is VERY similar to the floods NOAH faced. He was warned ahead of time, too !

The difference between NOAH and NOW is that Noah LISTENED !!