There's been talk of what could happen if you seed hurricane clouds. I'm not so sure that would really work. If the hurricane is over warm water, it's sucking up more than enough fuel to replenish whatever the seeding takes out. It'd be best to wait until it got at least halfway over land and by then it'll stall out on its own, not to mention the fact seeding it at that point would only bring MORE rain to the people under it.
Hmm...changing a hurricane's path. Somehow they'd have to overcome the force of the earth's rotation, because that's what makes a hurricane what it is instead of just a large unorganized cluster of storms. Besides, there's just something not right about being able to redirect a hurricane. What if we had deflected Ivan and sent it on a straight westerly path? Mexico would have been thoroughly nailed and they're frankly not as able to cope with massive hurricanes as we are here, especially in the rural areas. The death tolls would be astronomical compared to here. It'd be on the heads of whomever gave the order to change Ivan's path.
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