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...Floyd's case, the dance started when a disturbance high in the atmosphere moved off the coast of Africa and out over the Atlantic. Fueled by the rise of warm, humid air (in places, sea surface temperatures measured a steamy 86[degrees]F), the disturbance very quickly spawned a brood of thunderstorms that coalesced in a slow-moving whorl known as a tropical depression. On Sept. 8, as its winds reached 40 m.p.h., Floyd became a tropical storm. On Sept. 10, when its winds topped 74 m.p.h., it became a Category 1 hurricane. A few days later, with winds approaching...
Climenko Professor of Law Charles J. Ogletree discovered the darker side of the sea when a simple fishing expedition turned into a harrowing tale...
...most of the day, the sea was relatively calm, with only a few swells. Ogletree and Dennis Sweet, an attorney in Jackson, Miss. who was a former student and a life-long fishing friend of Ogletree, were having a good fishing...
...while Vanderhorn took five years to return to the sea after battling waves close to 100 ft. in Hurricane David, Ogletree has already been back out three times since late August...
...lesson is to be respectful of the sea and not to fear it," he says...