Largest High-Tech Tornado Chase Set To Begin

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday April 7, 2009 @06:58AM from the just-a-big-blowhard dept.

coondoggie writes "Next month, with the help of a variety of high-tech gear, researchers will begin a wide-ranging project to better understand the origin, structure and evolution of tornadoes. The National Science Foundation has given $9.1 million to the project called Vortex2 (of course it has a convoluted backronym), which will take place from May 10-June 13. Researchers say Vortex2 is the largest attempt in history to study tornadoes, and will involve more than 50 scientists, 40 research vehicles, and 10 mobile radars, and will cover 900 square miles in southern South Dakota, western Iowa, eastern Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas, the Texas panhandle, and western Oklahoma."

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Re:$9.1M to teach us... by ChefInnocent · 2009-04-07 07:55 · Score: 0, Redundant

I do not live in Tornado Alley, but I'd like to know where in the world one can live without fear of some natural disaster. In my area it is range fires, earthquakes, and blizzards. Others have hurricanes, volcanoes, tsunamis, and landslides. Just curious where the people who aren't "too dumb" live that doesn't have some malady.