My Dear Senator Santorum,

First, let me introduce myself. I am a VOLUNTEER Weather Spotter in Riverton, Wyoming. I am also a non-tradition student, married with three children and a disabled wife, and we live in very rural Wyoming, attending Central Wyoming College.

I also run a web site that provides life saving information, as produced by the US Government, but only after I have digitized that which the government has NOT. I feel that the act mentioned in the subject line is NOT a Pennsylvania-Only topic. It is a NATIONWIDE issue. Therefore, I request that you take a moment to read this entire email.

I’ve recently been made aware of your proposed bill to limit access to the National Weather Service data online, so that ONLY for-profit organizations may use the data, and useless mouth breathing taxpayers like myself may NOT…because YOU want the National Weather Service to NOT do what YOU think the Private Sector can do better.

The Private Sector can NOT do better than the current National Weather Service is doing for ME, my family, and my fellow citizens.

Here is a disturbing story for you…

Rich

http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/showthread.php?t=145267

ENVR - Sumatran Super Volcano Ready To Blow Could End Life on Earth

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Could Super-Eruption End Civilization?

Some scientists believe that the Toba eruption, which caused global climatic disturbances, may have even caused a genetic “bottleneck” in human genetic diversity following a dramatic decline in the global population. If the Yellowstone supervolcano were to erupt in a similar fashion the ash that it would spew out would cover three-quarters of North America in a layer deep enough to kill crops and other plants.

Few people would survive in the zone immediately around the eruption as the volcanic gases and choking sulphur dioxide would burn the lungs of anyone caught in the open air. Those sheltering in their homes would not be safe because layers of heavy volcanic ash would eventually cause their roofs to collapse.

The supervolcanic eruption of the Toba volcano in Sumatra ejected about 300 times more volcanic ash than the eruption of Tambora in Indonesia in 1815 - which caused a “year without a summer” in 1816 and prompted Lord Byron to write his poem “Darkness”.