I discovered, due to one of my loyal readers, the pictures I posted concerning hurricane Katrina were not related to Katrina in any way. Below is the accurate information about those photographs.
Thursday, September 15, 2005
Photos are not from KatrinaBy Kevin MyattROANOKE.COM COLUMNIST
Used by permission of Mike Hollingshead
E-mails have been circling the planet with a series of attached images, including the one displayed with this column, claiming the photos are from Hurricane Katrina in Mississippi. Perhaps you have received one of these.
I have received an e-mail twice in the last few days, each time with the same photos and words claiming they are from Mississippi. I also received the same photos via e-mail in May, long before Katrina, in a forwarded e-mail claiming the photographs were from storms near Perth, Australia.
These photos are real storm photos, excellent ones at that, but they're not from Mississippi or Australia. These photos are the work of storm chaser Mike Hollingshead of Blair, Neb., and they depict supercell thunderstorms he has photographed in Iowa and Nebraska. Without his permission, the images are being e-mailed with false claims of what they depict, and those e-mails then get forwarded endlessly.
Check out his Web site at extremeinstability.com.
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