http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=Florida Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:02:20 -0400 Liveleak http://edge.liveleak.com/80281E/u/u/ll2/logo.gif http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=Florida Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:58:27 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=72d_1371526848 SvenVonErick A new law in Florida might be so vague that owning a refrigerator, plumbing in your home, using plumbing in your apartment or place of work, or even owning a motorcycle, scooter, lawnmower, car, or pick up truck might make anyone in the state of Florida subject to felony arrest and prison time. Florida State Troopers have long been known for pulling out of state drivers over to take all your cash as you might being buying drugs with it. African Americans are the main victims of this official crime. The law banning pipes is an official crime against the people and the US Constitution. Jail should be for criminals, not for almost any citizen. The intention of the law is to make smoking tobacco or marijuana a felony if you use a bong, water pipe, pipe, or use anything with a carburetor or cooling device with piping. Using cash to buy items from a neighbor at a garage sale can get you arrested and prison time in Louisiana. International bankers and corporate organized crime wants to control all of your life, own you, and make you subject to arrest and prison on almost any excuse. Slip having sex with your wife, if you are the woman's husband and miss one orifice, and she is supposed to call you in right away for a felony, even if she is willing. And that is in Texas. If you are a woman and own more than 5 dildos that is a felony and you are considered a dealer. Dildo's can only be sold as condom demonstration devices and must be sold with condoms. I found out that being self-employed is the equivalent to being a terrorist in Connecticut. that story ] Do you want those who are in charge of your life to be outsiders who have your country, and possibly all governments under armed occupation? Do you agree to the insanity that is Agenda 21 and UN mass sterilization, population reduction, and the disarming of all citizens worldwide? http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=72d_1371526848 SvenVonErick <span class="highlight">Florida</span> &quot;Pipe Felony&quot; may make owning a car a felony UN, US, Agenda 21, OWS, marijuana, tobacco, ban, gun, confiscation, Patriot Act, NDAA, Martial Law, Bilderberg, Police, State, Brutality, Connecticut, New York, City Tue, 18 Jun 2013 03:07:02 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f39_1371539026 Die Humans Laus had Berube's number, Laus did this to a lot of fighters in his short injury-plagued career. Great Sonic uppercut, enjoy..for those of you who don't whine and cry about a fight. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f39_1371539026 Die Humans Paul Laus with a brutal uppercut on Berube ko, tko, fight, hockey, brawl, chief, i fought the law and the law won, nhl, caps, panthers, florida, washington, skittles, trayboon, die humans, die noobs, sonic uppercut, boom, lights out Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:50:28 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=24b_1371516460 Detroit Iron By Tracy Connor, Staff Writer, NBC NewsFor a guy who's been dead since 1975, Jimmy Hoffa really gets around. Through the years, tipsters have insisted the Teamsters boss - who vanished from a suburban Detroit restaurant - was laid to rest in the swamps of Florida, under the artificial turf of Giants Stadium and more than a dozen other spots. Monday, the feds were digging up a field in Oakland Township, Mich., with new designs on finding Hoffa's remains and solving the mystery of his disappearance. Here are some of the places where the labor leader has been rumored to be spending eternity: Giants Stadium: A mob informant told the FBI in 1986 that Hoffa was killed by an Irish gangster in a Detroit suburb and buried in an end zone near section 107 of the football field. Stadium officials said they they dug four feet down while replacing artificial turf and didn't find any trace of Hoffa. The stadium was demolished in 2010. General Motors' headquarters: Hoffa's onetime driver, Marvin Elkind, told a Canadian journalist that a Detroit mobster revealed the final resting place in 1985 when he walked past the GM building, known as the Renaissance Center, nodded toward the massive foundation and said, "Say good morning to Jimmy Hoffa, boys." Driveway in Roseville, Mich.: Acting on a tip, authorities used radar last September to inspect the driveway of a private home and saw something that made them want a closer look. Police drilled for soil samples but experts found no sign of human decomposition in the dirt. Sheraton Hotel on Wilmington Island, Ga.: A Teamsters pension fund owned this property near Savannah when Hoffa vanished, so it's been dogged by rumors that he was laid to rest under the helipad. "It's had a colorful past," a developer who converted it into condos once said. A dump in Jersey City, N.J.: Authorities spent several days in 1975 digging up a mob-linked waste facility after a tipster claimed Hoffa could be found there, a 55-gallon drum serving as a his coffin. They didn't find anything but animal bones. Wexler's Tavern in Cleveland: The owner of the watering hole was doing some renovation work last month when he made an intriguing find: bone fragments and a matchbook from the Palm Desert Lodge in California, which had strong ties to Hoffa. But pathologists determined the remains were not human. Florida Everglades: An ex-hitman who said he was Hoffa's bodyguard told a Senate committee in 1982 that Hoffa's body was ground up and stuffed in a steel drum that was then dumped in the Sunshine State's gator-infested wetlands. A Japanese-made car: A 2006 book claimed that a convicted hitman confessed before his death that he knifed Hoffa to death, took the body to New Jersey, burned it in a steel barrel, dumped the remains in a car that was compressed into a hunk of metal and sent to Japan to be used in new vehicles, the Detroit News reported. Incinerator in Hamtramck, Mich.: A Pennsylvania Teamsters official purportedly confessed on his deathbed that he flew to Pontiac, Mich., to collect Hoffa's body from his killers and then had it burned. The same source, Frank Sheeran, supposedly also told an author he shot Hoffa at a Detroit home, but blood found there in 2004 was not a match. Pool in Hampton Township, Mich.: A convicted murderer who had already led cops to one body in his home claimed they could find Hoffa under an above-ground pool there. So in July 2003, a backhoe dug up the yard while the tipster watched in shackles, but nothing was found. Tire-shredding plant in Hamtramck, Mich.: A 1978 book posited that Hoffa's corpse was disposed of at Central Sanitation Services, once owned by organized crime figures. The FBI said at the time they looked into that theory and discounted it. Horse farm in Milford, Mich.: The FBI spent 14 days looking for Hoffa at the 89-acre Hidden Dreams Farm after a 75-year-old prison inmate who once worked there claimed he witnessed the burial. That story, like so many others, turned out to be a pile of manure. http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/17/19006027-jimmy-hoffas-rumored-resting-places-from-the-everglades-to-the-end-zone?lite http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=24b_1371516460 Detroit Iron Jimmy Hoffa's rumored resting places, from the Everglades to the end zone Jimmy Hoffa, FBI Tue, 11 Jun 2013 22:10:08 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=044_1371002304 dcmfox by Tommy Christopher 7:53 pm, June 11th, 2013 Andy Warhol famously said that one day, everyone would be famous for fifteen minutes, but 27 year-old Florida PR professional Taylor Chapman managed the feat in just over eight minutes. Disgruntled about the service she had received the night before, Chapman went back to her favorite Dunkin Donuts , armed with a camera phone and a whole mess of cusswords, to demand the free order she was owed. She then posted the rant, in which she refers to an employee as a "complete c*nt-sand-nigging whore," to Youtube, where it has gone viral. The video itself is epic, as Chapman explains to the extremely polite clerk that she is owed a free order because the night shift didn't give her a receipt, and refused to make good on the offer of a free order if no receipt is given. Over the course of 8 minutes, Chapman devolves into ever-ruder language, continuously promises to post the video all over the internet, and engages a reluctant customer on the subject. At one point, she tells the customer that she knows the order she's picking up will likely be defiled with bodily secretions, but explains that she'll be giving it to her boyfriend, anyway. Seriously, do not skip an instant of the video, because it just gets more awkward and funny, and then not funny at the end, when she confronts the clerk from the night before and calls her a "sand-n*gger" to her face, throwing in a reference to the World Trade Center bombing for bad measure. After that, Chapman once again promises to post the video online, where she says she hopes it gets "a million hits." For fans of poetic justice, the clip is well on its way to that total, and as Chapman eerily says at the 5:30 mark, "There are no take-backs in life." What makes this story really epic is that Taylor Chapman works for an SEO company called Power Sales Team , as a "video spokesperson." The company makes promotional videos for local businesses , like this one, which stars Taylor Chapman and rapper Ludacris :From the sounds of her latest work, Chapmen should have followed Luda's advice. The Smoking Gun identified the saintly clerk in the video as Abid Adar , and the woman who initially served Chapman only as Nithi. Abid told TSG that he hasn't seen the video yet : Adar told TSG that while he was aware of the video Chapman shot-and later posted online-he had not viewed it. He learned of the video's existence when a former coworker of Chapman's (who had seen the video on her Facebook page) called Dunkin' Donuts and "apologized for her behavior." The teenager, who said he had never encountered a customer as belligerent as Chapman, began frequenting Dunkin' Donuts about three years ago, when he would help out his mother, who worked at the eatery. In the fall, Adar-who wants to be a doctor-begins attending Florida Atlantic University in Fort Lauderdale. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=044_1371002304 dcmfox <span class="highlight">Florida</span> Woman Ruins Life With Racist Video Rant About 'Sand-N*gger' Dunkin Donuts Employee Dunkin' Donuts, Ludacris, Racist rant, Taylor Chapman Sun, 16 Jun 2013 13:40:51 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2e4_1371404127 CoolQcumber A 19-year-old Florida teen recalls his 'once in a lifetime' experience of his ride on a 5-tonne whale shark. Jim Spiewak has this story. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2e4_1371404127 CoolQcumber Take A Ride On The Wild Side Whale Shark,Florida,Ride,Marine,Fish Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:23:09 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5c6_1371475102 unkempt LARGO -- Ralph Monus says his girlfriend attacked him with acid at his Largo home early Sunday. Now, Melissa Diane Egbert, 39, faces aggravated battery charges and sits in the Pinellas County jail with a $100,000 bond. Police say she threw a bottle of muriatic acid into his face. Surveillance video allegedly shows Egbert attacking Monus, jumping into a car and driving from the scene. Egbert, of 6th Street NE, has faced criminal charges before, including domestic battery by strangulation and auto theft. Muriatic acid, also known as hydrochloric acid, causes significant burns when it touches skin. Monus, 44, says they dated for the past 18 months. He says she came to the home drunk. When he asked her to leave, he says that's when she threw the acid. Monus says his surveillance video shows Egbert removing the cap from the acid bottle and placing it on the table next to her. He says she threw it at him twice, leaving him in immediate pain. He washed his face in the shower, but refused to go to the hospital. His face remains red and his driveway has white spots from the acid. Monus says he never wants to see Egbert again. http://www.baynews9.com/content/news/baynews9/news/article.html/content/news/articles/bn9/2013/6/16/police_largo_woman_t.html http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5c6_1371475102 unkempt Police say woman threw acid on boyfriend Acid attack, Largo, Florida Sat, 15 Jun 2013 14:06:28 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=06d_1371319183 unkempt ORLANDO -- A woman is accused of using a stun gun to discipline a 10-year-old child for not making oatmeal properly. According to the Orange County Sheriff's Office report released Thursday, Melissa Neale is according of brutally disciplining a child on several occasions. Neale bonded out of jail Friday. A witness, who said Neale and the child had been living in her home for three weeks, said she saw Neale slap the child in the face, punch her in the head, and grab her by the hair and pull her around the room. Then, deputies said on Sunday, June 15, the witness saw Neale get angry at the girl for not making oatmeal properly, get her stun gun, hold the child down and touch it to the child's leg. She said she saw the girl fall to the floor and scream. The witness said she decided to get help when the girl wrote a note saying she didn't want to live anymore. Deputies said Neale told them she never abused the child, and during the stun gun incident, the gun was never activated and everyone was just playing around. But deputies and the Department of Children and Families said the child's bruises and marks show otherwise. Neale was charged with aggravated child abuse with a weapon. Relatives are caring for the child. Deputies will not say how Neale and the girl are related. http://www.baynews9.com/content/news/baynews9/news/article.html/content/news/articles/cfn/2013/6/14/woman_accused_of_dis.html http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=06d_1371319183 unkempt Cops: Woman used stun gun on child for messing up oatmeal mom, child, punishment, stun gun, oatmeal, only in florida Thu, 13 Jun 2013 04:38:53 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f0a_1371111673 markymark69 stormy day http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f0a_1371111673 markymark69 on my balcony on sunday and the storm the day before .it flooded our parking garage and destroyed several cars florida Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:52:27 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=bff_1371476554 exstazi Checked but couldn't find it here...so uploaded it...its really interesting :) Dutch politician Geer Wilders, the man who was banned from Britain for fear his presence would work Islamic extremists into a frenzy, the man who was put on trial for telling the truth about Islam, spoke to the Florida Security Council about the Islamization of Europe and the threat to America. From the video description: Geert Wilders, Controversial MP The Netherlands (a country with extremely liberal policies towards Muslims) warns Americans of the draconian consequences of attempting to pacify Islamists. Geert Wilders reveals 10 step plan of eliminating Islamic extremism from western culture. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=bff_1371476554 exstazi Geert Wilder's Warning to America Part 1 and 2 Religion,islam,america,geert Sun, 16 Jun 2013 18:26:27 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=14d_1371421222 aranger45 Drivers traveling along I-95 in Delray Beach, Fla., couldn't miss it. The word JIHAD spray-painted in bold black lettering, nearly 20-feet high, across a wall along the northbound lanes of the interstate. (Credit: YouTube) The Arabic word means, among other definitions, "Holy War." And that's almost what happened between two motorists whose verbal altercation over the graffiti was captured on video Saturday. Here's how WPEC-TV described the scene: CBS 12's Karl Man was interviewing Damon Rosen about the jihad spray painted message, something that disgusted him, that's when an unidentified man left his car and just like that it was on. Things quickly escalated, the unknown man who did not oppose the jihad message shifted his shouting to a crowd of bystanders. "You're all brainwashed!" The group of onlookers hurling profanity back at the man. "You're going to lose your job bit-!" Rosen then jumping in with his own choice language... "Take that shi- back to the Muslim land," screamed Rosen. (Credit: YouTube) The man who did not see the big deal about the jihad message made one last statement to those nearby before he sped off. "Just for the record there are no fu-ing terrorists," he screamed. (Credit: YouTube) Rosen came back to where we were before to finish the interview; he laid out why the spray paint sign irked him so much and why he stopped to get a closer look. Here's the compelling clip of the altercation from WPEC-TV : Florida Highway Patrol troopers came out Saturday evening to investigate the graffiti, finding one can of spray paint nearby that may be linked to the crime, WPTV reported. The graffiti is now gone from the wall. Here's a brief follow-up featuring a different interview via WPTV : http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=14d_1371421222 aranger45 Violent Libertard screams at and verbally abuses minority women over Jihad graffiti Violent, Libertard, screams, at, and, verbally, abuses, minority, women, over, Jihad, graffiti Sun, 16 Jun 2013 01:32:54 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=77a_1371360329 AntiPropagaanda Made in Glasgow: Hassan Rouhani, the moderate who has become Iran's next president Saturday 15 June 2013 The man today declared as Iran's next president grew up in Glasgow, completing a degree and doctorate at Glasgow Caledonian University. Hassan Rouhani, an avowed reformer, urged to a wide lead in early vote counting today, and the country's interior minister declared him the victor at 5pm today. He studied at the old Glasgow Polytechnic (now GCU) in the 1970s and returned to undertake a law doctorate in the 1990s. He then went by the name of Hassan Feridon Mr Rouhani, 64, who is married with children, is a cleric who speaks English, German, French, Russian and Arabic. Earlier today, he had more than 51% of the more than eight million votes tallied so far, well ahead of Tehran Mayor Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf with about 16.6%. Hard-line nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili was third with about 13%. The strong margin for Mr Rouhani gave him an outright victory and avoided a two-person run-off next Friday. Iran has more than 50 million eligible voters, and turnout in yesterday's poll was believed to be high. Many reform-minded Iranians who have faced years of crackdowns looked to Mr Rouhani's rising fortunes as a chance to claw back a bit of ground. While Iran's presidential elections offer a window into the political pecking orders and security grip inside the country - particularly since the chaos from a disputed outcome in 2009 - they lack the drama of truly high stakes as the country's ruling clerics and their military guardians remain the ultimate powers. Election officials began the ballot count after voters queued for hours in wilting heat at some polling stations in central Tehran and other cities, while others cast ballots across the vast country from desert outposts to Gulf seaports and nomad pastures. Voting was extended by five hours to meet demand, but also as possible political stagecraft to showcase the participation. The apparent strong turnout - estimated at 75% by the hard-line newspaper Kayhan - suggested that liberals and others abandoned a planned boycott as the election was transformed into a showdown across the Islamic Republic's political divide. On one side were hard-liners looking to cement their control behind candidates such as Mr Jalili, who says he is "100%" against detente with Iran's foes, or Mr Qalibaf. Opposing them were reformists and others rallying behind the "purple wave" campaign of Mr Rouhani, the lone relative moderate left in the race. Officials did not say in which parts of the country the ballots were counted. But even Mr Rouhani's presidency could be more of a limited victory than a deep shake-up. Iran's establishment - a tight alliance of the ruling clerics and the ultra-powerful Revolutionary Guard - still holds all the effective power and sets the agenda on all major decisions such as Iran's nuclear programme and its dealings with the West. Security forces are also in firm control after waves of arrests and relentless pressures since the last presidential election in 2009, which unleashed massive protests over claims that the outcome was rigged to keep the combative Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in power for a second and final term. He is barred from seeking a third consecutive run. The greater comfort level by the theocracy and Revolutionary Guard sets a different tone this time. Opposition groups appear too intimidated and fragmented to revive street demonstrations, and even a win by Mr Rouhani - the only cleric in the race - is not likely to be perceived as a threat to the ruling structure. Mr Rouhani led the influential Supreme National Security Council and was given the highly sensitive nuclear envoy role in 2003, a year after Iran's 20-year-old atomic programme was revealed. "Rouhani is not an outsider and any gains by him do not mean the system is weak or that there are serious cracks," said Rasool Nafisi, an Iranian affairs analyst at Strayer University in Virginia. "The ruling system has made sure that no-one on the ballot is going to shake things up." Yet a Rouhani victory would not be entirely without significance either. It would make room for more moderate voices in Iranian political dialogue and display their resilience. It also would bring onto the world stage an Iranian president who has publicly endorsed more outreach rather than bombast toward the West. The last campaign events for Mr Rouhani carried chants that had been bottled up for years. Some supporters called for the release of political prisoners including opposition leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mahdi Karroubi, both candidates in 2009 and now under house arrest. "Long live reforms," some cried at Mr Rowhani's last rally, which was awash with purple banners and scarves - the campaign's signature hue in a nod to the single-colour identity of Mr Mousavi's now-crushed Green Movement. "My mother and I both voted for Rouhani," said Saeed Joorabchi, a university student in geography, after casting ballots at a mosque in west Tehran. In the Persian Gulf city of Bandar Abbas, local journalist Ali Reza Khorshidzadeh said many polling stations had significant lines and many voters appeared to back Mr Rouhani. Just a week ago, Mr Rowhani was seen as overshadowed by candidates with far deeper ties to the current power structure: Mr Jalili and Mr Qalibaf, who was boosted by a reputation as a steady hand for Iran's sanctions-wracked economy. Then a moderate rival of Mr Rouhani bowed out of the presidential race to consolidate the pro-reform camp. That opened the way for high-profile endorsements including his political mentor, former president Akbar Heshmi Rafsanjani, who won admiration from opposition forces for denouncing the post-election crackdowns in 2009. This, too, may have led to Mr Rafsanjani being blackballed from the ballot this year by Iran's election overseers, which allowed just eight candidates among more than 680 hopefuls. Iran has no credible political polling to serve as harder metrics for the street buzz around candidates, who need more than 50% of the vote to seal victory and avoid a run-off. Journalists face limits on reporting such as requiring permission to travel around the country. Iran does not allow outside election observers. Yet it is clear that fervour remains strong for Mr Rouhani's rivals as well. Mr Qalibaf is riding on his image as a capable fiscal manager who can deal with the deepening problems of Iran's economy and sinking currency. Mr Jalili draws support from hard-line factions such as the Revolutionary Guard's paramilitary corps, the Basij. His reputation is further enhanced by a battlefield injury that cost him the lower part of his right leg during Iran's 1980-88 war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq, which at the time was backed by the United States. "We should resist the West," said Tehran taxi driver Hasan Ghasemi, who supported Mr Jalili. Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has not publicly endorsed a successor for Mr Ahmadinejad following their falling out over the president's attempts to challenge Ayatollah Khamenei's near-absolute powers. Mr Ahmadinejad leaves office weakened and outcast by his political battles with Ayatollah Khamenei - yet another sign of where real power rests in Iran. The election overseers also rejected Mr Ahmadinejad's protege, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei ,in apparent payback. The usually talkative Mr Ahmadinejad gave only a brief statement to reporters as he voted and refused to discuss the election. Ayatollah Khamenei remained mum on his own choice as he cast his ballot. He added that even his children do not know whom he backs. Instead, he blasted the US for its repeated criticism of Iran's crackdowns on the opposition and the rejection of Mr Rafsanjani and other moderates from the ballot. "Recently I have heard that a US security official has said they do not accept this election," Ayatollah Khamenei was quoted by state TV as saying after casting his vote. "OK, the hell with you." Iran's state media hailed the apparently high turnout as a boost for the Islamic Republic's political system. "A great political epic has shocked the world," read a front-page headline in the hardline daily Kayhan today. Ayatollah Khamenei had called for a "political epic" on June 14, saying a high turnout would protect Iran against its enemies. By many measures, this election is far removed from the backdrop four years ago. Iran's security networks have consolidated near-blanket control, ranging from swift crackdowns on any public dissent to cyberpolice blocking opposition Internet websites and social media. Hackers calling themselves the Iranian Cyber Army disrupted at least a half dozen reform-oriented websites, including one run by well-known political cartoonist Nikahang Kosar. Prominent reformist politician Mostafa Tajzadeh, who was jailed after the 2009 disputed election, voted from his cell in Tehran's Evin Prison, the semi-official Isna news agency reported. The economy, too, is under far more pressure than in 2009. Western sanctions over Iran's nuclear programme have shrunk vital oil sales and are leaving the country isolated from international banking systems. New US measures taking effect on July 1 further target Iran's currency, the rial, which has lost half of its foreign exchange value in the past year, driving prices of food and consumer goods sharply higher. Outside Iran, votes were casts by the country's huge diaspora including Dubai, London and points across the United States. "I hope we take a step toward democracy," said Behza Khajavi, a 29-year-old doctoral candidate in physics from Boca Raton, Florida, as he voted in Tampa for Mr Rouhani. In Paris, a 25-year-old Iranian student, Sohrab Labib, voted at his nation's consulate while a small group of protesters gathered across the street. "It's our country. It's our future," he said. "In any case, even a little change could influence our future." http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=77a_1371360329 AntiPropagaanda Made in Glasgow: Hassan Rouhani, the moderate who has become Iran's next president Iran, President, America, Israel, Media, MSM, Demon Sat, 15 Jun 2013 22:40:07 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d6d_1371350261 USMC_SRT During Maj. Sean Cross' first flight into what became Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, he and his WC-130J Hercules crew joked and asked themselves why they were even tasked for the mission. "There was absolutely nothing to it at that point," he said. By his second flight, the jokes stopped and were soon replaced by concern for their own families and homes after the hurricane crossed south Florida and entered the Gulf of Mexico on a direct path toward the Mississippi coast where the Hurricane Hunters of the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron are based. Katrina was only the most extreme example of the dilemma Hurricane Hunter crewmembers face while collecting data in storms that sometimes threaten their homes and loved ones in south Mississippi. Eight years since Hurricane Katrina wreaked havoc in Louisiana and Mississippi, killing more than 1,800 people and causing more than $95 billion in damage, Cross has even more at stake as he begins his 13th season with the 53rd WRS. While he's flying through storms, he now has 3-year-old son Cooper with his wife Apryl Ready back in their home in Biloxi. "We have crewmembers all across the Gulf Coast, so at any one time, anyone in the squadron can be directly affected by a storm," Cross said. "The tough part is when you're looking at the forecast as you're coming in to fly. Then, we go fly, and we're basically dropping crumbs along a trail as we're tracking the storm. We look at where we live and where this track is going and where it's shifting, and we're playing mind games with ourselves, basically trying to wish this storm somewhere else. No. 1, you've got to stay focused on the safety of the crew and the plane. But No. 2, you're thinking about the people on the ground and the lives that are going to be affected." Storm preparation must begin much earlier in the Cross home, along with other Hurricane Hunter crewmembers, than most of their fellow Gulf Coast residents. When most coastal residents are trying to get as far inland as possible the day or two before a hurricane reaches the Biloxi beaches, Cross is flying at 10,000 feet in the teeth of the storm itself. Their preparation cannot wait until a hurricane reaches the Gulf. "We have to sit down with his calendar and my work calendar and try to clear everything from July to October," said Ready, a Biloxi attorney. "We don't plan any vacations during that time. We don't plan any trips, and I try not to set any trials. Because I know that he's going to be gone most of that time, I'm going to have Cooper by myself, and I don't need the extra stress of having a trial or a trip on top of that." The family uses a clothes hamper to store important papers, laptop computers, portable hard drives, and other important items such as Monkey, Cooper's prized stuffed animal. Cross makes sure his family has a plan in place, and his wife knows what to do, which eases his mind so he can concentrate on the storm, the plane and his crew during hurricane missions. "As a crewmember, it's easier on me knowing that I have a plan, and we put that plan into action sooner rather than later," Cross said. "The last thing I need to have on my mind and worry about while I'm flying a plane is when Apryl is going to leave. I'd rather know she and Cooper are out of the way, and she knows that, too. She doesn't want me to be thinking about them while we're in a storm." The 2013 hurricane season, which began June 1 and continues through November, is forecast to be another active year for storm formation. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicts 13 to 20 named storms with sustained winds of 39 mph or higher, with seven to 11 becoming hurricanes and three to six major hurricanes, said James Franklin, National Hurricane Center specialist unit branch chief. Hurricane reconnaissance flights like NOAA and the 53rd WRS, improve the National Hurricane Center's forecasts by at least 15 percent, Franklin said. Cross transferred to the 53rd WRS in 2001 from the 919th Special Operations Wing at Duke Field near Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. Three years later, he flew into Hurricane Ivan as the Category 4 storm was headed for the Florida Panhandle where his parents, Henry and Jerry Cross, live. By 2005, Cross' experience with hurricanes made him painfully aware of how bad Katrina was going to be. He told his wife and friends, who didn't believe him until they saw the devastation left after the storm passed. "My wife had never experienced a direct hit from a major hurricane before," Cross said. "I told her the coast is not prepared for what's going to happen here. This is probably going to be a direct hit on the Biloxi area. The coast is going to be changed forever." At least half a dozen 53rd WRS members lost their homes during Katrina, and the squadron relocated to Dobbins Air Reserve Base, Ga., for the rest of the season and never missed a tasking from the National Hurricane Center. The family put their evacuation plan into action last year as Hurricane Isaac bore down on the Mississippi coast. The squadron evacuated the 10 WC-130Js to Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base in Houston. On Aug. 28, the day before the seventh anniversary of Katrina, the 200-mile-wide hurricane made landfall near the mouth of the Mississippi River in Louisiana, 75 miles from New Orleans, bringing high winds and significant rainfall to Biloxi. "I'm in the Gulf flying through Isaac knowing that Apryl and Cooper are right here taking care of the house by themselves," Cross said. "I spent the night in Houston, biting my nails wanting to know if I could get back here. Fortunately, we had enough air crewmembers willing to stay with the aircraft and fly the mission, and I came home the day before landfall to take Apryl and Cooper, and we headed to Florida out of harm's way." Now that they have a child of their own, Cross and Ready are even more resolute to make sure they're not in a situation that could jeopardize their lives whether the next hurricane that impacts the coast resembles Isaac or Katrina. One of Ready's friends and her 4-year-old daughter stayed in their hurricane-damaged house after Katrina, and Cross saw the impact the experience had on the child. "I can only put myself in (Cooper's) shoes, to come home as a 3 1/2 -year-old, and everything he's got is destroyed," Cross said. "The most important thing to him is probably his Monkey. If you can plan ahead and take something that is a valuable thing like a special toy for your child, it makes a huge difference in the long run." When Cooper is old enough to understand, they also plan to talk to him about what his father does for a living and about hurricanes. They have The Weather Channel's current TV show, "The Hurricane Hunters," along with photos of their house that was damaged by Katrina and their own stories. "I remember my parents telling me the story about Hurricane Camille (in 1969) and how they lost everything," Ready said. "That's how you learn - from stories other people tell of their experiences with hurricanes. We will sit him down, tell him stories and show pictures to tell him he has to prepare just like we do to get out of the way when a storm is coming." http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d6d_1371350261 USMC_SRT Anatomy of a hurricane hunter: When storms get personal USAF, Air, Force, Hurricane, Hunter