[Dixielandjazz] Unusual Pictures of Katrina (sort of)

[David Richoux]

Indeed some amazing pictures, but all but one are not of Katrina:

http://www.snopes.com/photos/natural/storm.asp#photo1

a snip:

> When readers started forwarding these photographs to us just after  
> Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast in August 2005, our first  
> thought was that the scenes depicted in these images didn't look  
> like either a hurricane or the Gulf Coast.  Our second thought was  
> that we've seen these pictures before -many times.
>
> Indeed, these pictures are apparently all-purpose storm photos,  
> trotted out on a near monthly basis and retitled to correspond to  
> the latest large weather phenomenon.  These photographs have now  
> been circulated as depicting:
>
> Australian tornadoes, May 2005
> Severe storms in southern Alberta, July 2005
> Severe storms and tornadoes in Ontario, August 2005
> Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf Coast (Louisiana, Mississippi,  
> Alabama), August 2005
>
> These images are actually photographs of tornadoes and other  
> extreme weather phenomena taken by storm chaser Mike Hollingshead  
> in Nebraska and Kansas during the summer months of 2002 and 2004.

more on the Snopes site...

Dave Richoux

On Aug 12, 2007, at 6:50 AM, R. or V. Thompson wrote:

> For a look at some unusual pictures of Katrina, visit
>
> http://www.oddandstupid.com/Photos/Katrina/Katrina.htm
>
> Bert
>
> rvthompson at earthlink.net
> No one ever says "It's only a game" when his team is winning.