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Fake Photos of Katrina Arriving
LaMa forwarded me some pictures of Hurricane Katrina that he says have been doing the rounds in Holland accompanied by the caption: "These were taken in Alabama of Katrina coming in. These photos are amazing. Sometimes there is beauty in a storm. Thought you might enjoy something different than what we all have been inundated with of late." He notes that "a few of them look familiar to me, I think I have seen them before." And indeed he has! I posted them here back in May when they were doing the rounds as a "storm near bunbury" (in Australia). They're cool photos, so I can see why they would be recycled with every new storm. I believe (as one of the commenters pointed out when I posted them before) that they're storm chasing pictures taken by Mike Hollingshead in Iowa in 2004. |
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To ad a few words: I became suspcious as some of the images in that e-mail showed a clear shelf-cloud and tornadoes. Those are phenomena associating to thunderstorm supercells, not to hurricanes.
Posted by LaMa in Europe on Fri Sep 09, 2005 at 06:09 AM
I think these pictures were the same ones on the internet this summer claiming to show the unusually bad weather in southern Alberta. Those clouds sure get around.
Posted by Captain Al in Alberta, Canada on Fri Sep 09, 2005 at 07:21 AM
the middle ones pretty. of course, I wouldnt think that after it ripped up my house...
Posted by thunder in England on Sat Sep 10, 2005 at 08:29 AM
It's a little hard to see the hurricane, because it's usually all filled with rain...It's not like the picture the weather man is showing you, with a large green and yellow blob approaching.
Anywho, seems as if this has already been debunked.
Posted by Maegan in Tampa, FL - USA on Sun Sep 11, 2005 at 03:08 AM
Anywho, seems as if this has already been debunked.
My sister in law sent me this last night, as Katrina, with a note about it being hell on earth. Sometimes she makes me want to just scream. 
Anyway, I sent her a link to here, and a note about snopes, as usual.
Posted by Winona in USA on Tue Sep 13, 2005 at 08:46 AM
Anyway, I sent her a link to here, and a note about snopes, as usual.Indeed photo number 1430 on http://extremeinstability.com/photographypage.htm is of the same storm a few minutes earlier or later than the middle of the above pictures...
Posted by Miguel in Hobart, Australia on Mon Sep 26, 2005 at 02:52 PM
Thank you for that explanation; Had told people they were probably of tornados forming in the Midwest US, but will now correct them.
The absence of any ocean around was a giveaway for me.....
Posted by DFStuckey in Auckland New Zealand on Wed Sep 28, 2005 at 08:42 PM
The absence of any ocean around was a giveaway for me.....
This is a note to nip a kind of a myth starting in the previous posts that tornadoes can not be started by hurricanes. Hurricanes can spawn tornadoes. Do a web search and you will find many references to this fact.
Posted by Mark in San Francisco on Mon Mar 05, 2007 at 09:54 AM
katrina kaif pic I need
Posted by faraz alam in karachi on Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 08:06 PM
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