Tornado mega disaster simulation to be aired

[greenman3610]

Prepare for the warming world:
http://dsc.discovery.com/tvlistings/episode.jsp?episode=1&cpi=25038&gid=0&channel=DSC

At two miles wide with speeds of over 350 miles an hour
a mega tornado would reduce downtown Dallas to
a war zone within minutes. Scientists know it could happen
- we show you how.

MAR 19 2006
@ 09:00 PM

Discovery Channel

[Vinnie From Indy]

1. I predict storm chasiing will become less popular

[niyad]

2. I'm wondering, as others on DU have, WHAT the weather channel is

doing with this blatant fear-mongering. "IT could happen tomorrow"
well, IT could also never happen, or happen 10,000 years from now. and there is not a damned thing we can do about it.

[neverforget]

3. I think it's human nature to wonder about extremes. I'm fascinated

by the scenarios just as I'm fascinated by "what if" scenarios in history.

[phantom power]

4. I'd guess it's more because it's entertaining, than because it's scary.

Another manifestation of the "eternal shark-week" effect. It's hard to run a single-theme cable channel without becoming boring. Most of the single-themers end up focusing on a small set of cash-cow themes. No surprise, for the Weather Channel, it's got to be weather disasters, real or imagined.

(Plus, it's really going to happen)

[phantom power]

5. Anybody remember Hurrican Wilma? It's eye was 4 miles wide.

In 24 hours, it spun up to a cat-5 hurricane with a super-tight core. Exploring the fuzzy boundary between hurricane and tornado.