This was a press release posted to WX-TALK a couple times and also forwarded to me by several people. I would go beyond his call to Meteorologists and call all those involved in Severe Weather Awareness like ourselves to do the same. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FEMA DIRECTOR APPEALS TO METEOROLOGISTS TO HELP REACH AMERICAN PUBLIC WITH LIFE AND PROPERTY SAVING MEASURES June 16, 1998 -- FEMA Director James Lee Witt will address the 27th Conference on Broadcast Meteorology of the American Meteorological Society on June 18 at the Regal Riverfront Hotel in St. Louis, Mo. Witt will ask the meteorologists to get the word out to the public about the actions that individuals, businesses and communities can take to protect themselves from the damaging effects of natural disasters. Director Witt will discuss Project Impact, a major new initiative that is designed to change the way American deals with disasters. Project Impact focuses on prevention measures that communities and individuals can take to reduce the damage to property from floods, hurricanes, earthquakes and other natural disasters before they happen, rather than picking up the pieces afterward. The American Meteorological Society is a scientific and professional society that actively promotes the development and dissemination of information and education of the atmospheric and related oceanic and hydrologic sciences. The AMS has more than 12,000 members from the United States and over 100 foreign countries and more than 135 corporation and institutional members, representing 40 countries. For more information about the American Meteorological Society go to http://www.arnetsoc.org/AMS Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Office of Emergency Information & Media Affairs --- Washington, D.C. Information Available 24 hours a day . . . ... on the World Wide Web: http://www.fema.gov -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- ============================================================== Jesse Ferrell - Meteorologist/Web Dev. - j{at}weatherwatchers.org Central Atlantic Storm Investigators - www.weatherwatchers.org "And here a twister comes... here comes the twister." --Talking Heads || ICQ No. 136862 || --------------------------------------------------------------------- ************************************************* Central Atlantic Storm Investigators Mailing-List To Post: casilist{at}weatherwatchers.org To Cancel: lists-admin{at}weatherwatchers.org Archive: /members/casilist *************************************************