Fla. Man May Try To Reduce Ivan's Strength
Cordani Wants To Dump Absorbent Material From 747

POSTED: 4:14 PM EDT September 10, 2004
UPDATED: 6:57 AM EDT September 11, 2004

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- A South Florida businessman says he's going to try to reduce the strength of Hurricane Ivan by flying a Boeing 747 into the edge of the hurricane and dumping thousands of pounds of an absorbent material into the storm.

Peter Cordani of Jupiter plans to try to knock the storm down by one or two categories by dropping tons of powder that absorbs 3,000 to 4,000 times its weight.

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Cordani is chief operating officer of Dyn-O-Mat, a company that sells environmental absorbent products such as mats for mechanics. He believes his product, SK 1,000, would cause a shearing action and a 15 degree cooling of the storm. ,p/>

Cordani has been working on his plan for five years.

He has assembled a team of experts, including two former astronauts, moonwalker Edgar Mitchell and Scott Mac Leod, who tested the lunar module.

Cordani is in contact talks to lease a 747 tanker from Evergreen Aviation in McMinnville, Oregon.

I was told by a friend who lives there that it was removed to allow taller boats to pass.

Mike

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yay.... hurricane camille (kamil) was the strongest one

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Heres a photo from about a 1/2 hour ago.

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The current path is taking it away from Florida altogether and I am am somewhat disappointed.

I actually have a knife strapped to my leg and thought I looked pretty cool......guess I'll just wear it inside the house.

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I meant to say South Florida. My apologies, the knife was digging it's way into my leg.....

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If the expected track is now pointing towrd the panhandle it might get interesting here in Mississippi.

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Besides the fact that Dade County's voting irregularities may have cost Al Gore the election, you have the county mayor, Alex Penelas, who disassociated himself from Gore and the democrats during the election, claiming himself to be a "staunch" democrat now that he's trying to gain re-election.

Perhaps politics all over is a scam of the largest magnitude, but it seems to stink more closest to home.

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The forcast has it near 135 mph when it hits FL. Where are you getting the 65 mph or something forcast? http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ftp/graphics/AT09/refresh/AL0904I+GIF/130253I.gif

I hope they have this right. It keeps tracking west. They are saying Panhandle but it is looking more like New Orleans to me. Its supposed to hit colder water outside the panhandle and then start slowing down to about 130 or so. Wind speed may not be as big a factor as rain anyway withthis one. I bet the Southeast is going to see rain like they never seen it if this thing breaks up over them after being over water for so long.

8-12 ft storm surge would block the flow of the MS River. The water would pile-up and overflow its banks. Then build up on the levees. Torrential rains from the hurricane would soak the levees and weaken them. The storm surge could affect Lake Pontchartrain, too. This would leave NOLA as a hole in the water.

The pumping system of NOLA can handle a lot of water but given the rainfall rates of this storm, the pumps would be overwhelmed and many low-lying parts of the city would probably flood. If any of the pumps failed in would be bad for that local area.

If the river or lake breached the surrounding levees, NOLA would be submerged by about 12 ft of water in the CBD and surrounding burbs. It would look like Venice, instantly--a multibillion dollar disaster. Not to mention the loss of life from flooding a major city.