The G-7 rolls into town not since 20 years ago when Russia joined the group only when it's their money at risk. Not once in the last 8 years did they roll into town while America was rolling out the magic carpet in sympathy around the Planet while American's faced un-ending dilemma & disaster.
As the summer months roll right through fall into pre-winter solace, the calm before, during and after the storm is not easily dis-swayed by mother nature. With gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean Hurricanes taking punches at America in the hit and miss column, Hurricane Hernan's actions did a little side swipe of the west coast as winds reached almost 75 mph (120 kph) early Friday, the minimal strength for hurricane classification.
The part that is drawing down on The United States is the flooding and freeze frame picture perfect moments where the Army Corp. of Engineers still has not picked up an entire upper part of the 48 United States flat map and prepared the design and re-structure for channeling flood waters into reservoirs for the summer months in the lower part of 48 states.
...and the real truth is "Warning systems in the United States today are a chaotic patchwork of technologies and procedures. Not only is there no coordination, there's no mechanism for coordination".
Year after year the upper end of Billions get spent in disaster at the weight of American tragedy when it would only take the lower beginning of Billions to get to work on these issues that would enact a certain renewable safety net for people living in flood water States, and provide relief for lower drought season States.
With Law being the real Policy of our Nation, these duel roles in The Constitution are the two exact rights of the people that should be adhered more than anything at all right now:
The 5th Amendment:
"nor shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of the law"
The 14th Amendment:
"nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of the law"
However, as usual, crisis circumvention always gets sidelined while it's proper protocol gets infringed just to en-act the vicious nature of people's attitudes. So "YET AGAIN" as global recession grabs a couple gears to weigh in on American's sympathetic nature, here are the realities of winter almost here in the United States where everything from LIHEAP to INFRASTRUCTURE got denied by the our supposed such caring Congress and President.
NOAA's National Weather Service offers several XML services
|Forecasts||Watch/warnings||Current Observations||Tropical Cyclone Advisories||Storm Prediction Center Forecast Products||Change Notices|
This page provides access to NWS watches, warnings, advisories, and other similar products several different formats. Select a state or product name to view a list of active alerts in your web browser. These files are updated about every two minutes. Tropical Prediction Center/Storm Prediction center feeds are updated on an as needed basis. RSS and CAP/XML lists based on state and NWS forecast zones are provided to aid the automated dissemination of this information. More information on RSS and CAP/XML formats/feeds. This is an experimental product of the National Weather Service. Comments and feedback are welcome. A Product Description Document is also available.
About HTML/Web
Use html to view the information using your web browser. Select any state to see a complete of alerts for that state.
About RSS
RSS is an XML based document format for syndicating news and other timely news-like information. It provides headlines, URLs to the source document and brief description information in an easy to understand and use format. RSS based "News Readers" and "News Aggregators" allow the display of RSS headlines on workstation desktops. Software libraries exist to read the RSS format and present RSS headlines on webpages and other online applications.
These NWS supplied RSS documents use the RSS 2.0 format. Each RSS item links to the html/web documents described above. Additional technical information is available from the following non-US Government website:
RSS 2.0 Specification
A non-US Government maintained list of RSS readers, aggregators and related software:
RSS Software
Comments on this service will be accepted until January 31, 2003. Your feedback will help determine the future of this product.
About CAP/XML
Common Alertings Protocol (CAP) is an non-proprietary standard data format for the interchange of hazard warning and reports. More information on CAP can be found at the CAP information:
The CAP: What, Why and How
Technical information about CAP is available from this non-US Government maintained website:
CAP Working Documents
NWS Alert CAP messages contain the county FIPS code information for the affected county in the cap:geocode tags. Additional cross references to NWS forecast zones is available.
A list of possible data that is populated in the <cap:event> field is available.
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