Nation's First Weather Museum Survives Ike
(LiveScience.com)
Wednesday, 09.17.2008, 09:03pm (GMT)
LiveScience.com - The nation's first weather museum was one of the sturdy survivors of Hurricane Ike.Three meteorologists with the John C. Freeman Weather Museum, located on the first floor of a 75-year-old two-story home that also houses the Weather Research Center in Houston, safely rode out the hurricane there, while monitoring its activity.
The center has 15 clients worldwide that rely on its forecasts, including one in the Bay of Bengal and others along the Texas coast, so members of the weather forecast team decided to stay at the office last Friday night as they monitored the situation. ...
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