Storm Chase 2006

The Multi-community Environmental Storm Observatory (M.E.S.O.) www.mcwar.org, a professional environmental studies team, would like to announce the generous donation by GoldenPalace.com of $10,000.00 by their purchase of our eBay sale: Advertise on a Storm Chase vehicle.

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Helen Hunt would have been proud to ride in this state of the art Hummer H3 during the filming of the classic movie Twister, which started the tornado chasing craze in the Great Plains each spring.

With the purchase of the advertising wrap on our Hummer H3, GoldenPalace.com is setting the standard in marketing creativity. GoldenPalace.com has devised some of the most exciting and outrageous advertising campaigns in the past few years. Items such as the Virgin Mary Grilled Cheese Sandwich, Britney Spears’ Pregnancy Test, and William Shatner’s Kidney Stone have garnered extensive worldwide media attention for the casino.

GoldenPalace.com has also used their items and marketing reach to raise awareness and over $1,000,000 for various charities worldwide

“The $10,000.00 donation to M.E.S.O. will fund their research trip to the plains during the weeks of May 5th through May 21st. Also a large portion of the money will go to disaster relief for tornado and storm victims in the form of checks written to people at disaster scenes, as M.E.S.O. has done on past chases,” according to Allan Detrich, the treasurer and Media Director of M.E.S.O.

“M.E.S.O. is grateful to GoldenPalace.com for their generous donation to our research group.” says Detrich. “Donations are hard to come by in this day and age, but with the recent increase in severe storm activity in the United States, M.E.S.O., with the support of GoldenPalace.com, will be able to reach out to some of the victims of those horrible storms.”

“The severe storms of recent include, Hurricane Katrina, Rita and most recently, storms on March 12th spawned 140 tornadoes in a 24 hour period in the Great Plains, with Missouri being the hardest hit. With generous donations like the one from GoldenPalace.com, M.E.S.O. might be able to make a small difference in someone’s life.” says Detrich.

ABOUT M.E.S.O.

The M.E.S.O. association is organized for the purpose of singly or collectively assisting
any person, community, or community agency with the work of public safety, severe
weather warning, disaster preparedness, severe weather awareness, and public education. Assistance is provided in whatever capacity possible through the use of combined or individual skills and/or resources.

M.E.S.O’s goal is that through a combination of educational, civic, and scientific projects,
through the operation of an experimental research vehicle of our own design, will further our experimentation with developing technologies; we will enhance the work of warning, severe weather education, and disaster preparedness.

M.E.S.O., a 501 c3 non-profit organization, was started in early 1998. What started as a group of weather enthusiasts hoping to observe nature's grandest show has evolved into one of the most highly-regarded severe weather organizations in the United States. We have very highly-trained specialists in such departments as forecasting, emergency management, photography, videography, electronics, computers and internet communication, and teaching. Since we first incorporated, we have grown as a group and have expanded our community service.

M.E.S.O. has an active in-school presentation program, wherein members of our organization visit schools with a government-approved message of disaster preparedness. Children are provided with brochures describing "what to do if..." to take home. A modified presentation is made available to community groups, churches, etc. Any donations received from these presentations have been sent to disaster relief organizations, most prominently the American Red Cross (after the expense of the presentation is deducted). At the end of each year, we perform an overview of the program, and modify it according to the input we have received from our audiences.

M.E.S.O. has an annual research mission into the central Plains during the peak of severe weather season, wherein we experiment with developing technologies in the work of warning and severe weather preparedness. We open spots on the trip to interested parties wishing to learn more about forecasting, weather observation, and meteorology. Many use what they learn on these trips to enhance their warning systems at home. Our goal is to incorporate our field-tested techniques and safety guidelines into a growing number of weather research teams. We are accomplishing this goal by carefully training new members to be able to head up field excursions of their own.

M.E.S.O. is currently working on some Beta projects with Texas Task Force 1, and FEMA, more to come on this subject in the near future.

M.E.S.O. maintains an active website at www.mcwar.org which has grown in popularity since its inception in 1998. We have received visitors from all over the world, and frequent return visitors are the US Government, the U.S. Military, National Weather Service, and universities. We post pictures in our gallery of our various projects and from our various outings, and we have a steadily growing online library, containing articles written either by individual team members or by several members as a team project.

GoldenPalace.com is an Antiguan based company that provides state of the art casino games.

For comments from GoldenPalace.com please call anytime:
Jeff Kay or Drew Black at: 1-888-338-9884

For comments from M.E.S.O. please call anytime:
Allan Detrich - 419-345-0049 - cell

Important websites:
www.GoldenPalace.com
www.mcwar.org
www.allandetrich.com

For photos please call:
Allan Detrich - 419-345-0049 - cell
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