Here are some quotes from an interview I had with the High Point (NC) Enterprise newspaper about this year's storm damage and CASI in general. If any of you guys have been quoted in the press recently please let me know; I can pass it on to the CASILIST and might put it on the website too. "City gets storm cleanup bill" - By Teresa Killian Staff Writer High Point Enterprise Area News Section Page 1 July 15, 1998 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Story about how High Point is expected to need >$150,000 to pay for landfill and overtime public service costs] ... "Meteorologist Jesse Ferrell, president of the Central Atlantic Storm Investigators, said he thought the Southeast had seen more storms than usual this spring and early summer. CASI is a group of almost 300 amateur and professional weather observers from all over the world that communicate mostly through the Internet. 'I think that that is due in part to eh El Nino event,' he said. 'Most agree it was the strongest one we've seen so far.' ... He added that a cooling of the waters in the Pacific Ocean, La Nina, is taking place. While the effects are hard to pinpoint, he estimated that the Southeast will probably not be as active storm-wise next year." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- ============================================================== Jesse Ferrell - Meteorologist/Web Dev. - j{at}weatherwatchers.org Central Atlantic Storm Investigators - www.weatherwatchers.org "A tornado? Why wasn't it dissipated by the weather modification net?" --Jean-Luc Picard || ICQ No. 136832 ||