Don’t fall for phony Katrina pics

October 10, 2005 by Mike Wendland

Have you seen the dramatic photos that purportedly show Hurricane Katrina coming in? They’re being mass e-mailed these days but when I looked at them, they seemed to be familiar. As the excellent urban legends site Snopes points out, these pictures have variously been described as Australian tornadoes and storms in Canada earlier this year. They actually are weather phenomenea from Kansas and Nebraska taken by famed strorm chaser Mike Hollingshead that date back to 2002. They have nothing to do with Katrina… or Rita… or the next hurricane. Just thought you should know. Urban Legends Reference Pages: Photo Gallery (Storm Clouds)