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Reporter: How many hurricanes have you killed? 

Hurricane Richard: So far, 8 and Dianmu will be my ninth. 

Reporter: Well, that’s positive thinking, assuming that you will be able to slay Dianmu. How did you learn this hurricane destruction? 

Hurricane Richard: Ah, now you catching on!

We had to interrupt our interview with Hurricane Richard at his request. Richard indicated he felt the need to focus more attention on the energies building in the South Pacific with Typhoon Dianmu. We resumed the interview 24 hours later. 

The next day...
Before we continue I would like to point out that today is the 15 June 2004 at 11:30 pm. I interrupted my interview with you to concentrate on typhoon Dianmu off the coast of Guam and heading toward Iwa Jima and the Korean coast. My efforts are taking longer than I thought, it's a big storm. I am having an effect in disrupting the eastern flow into Dianmu. I can now also see the eye and this helps a lot too. I need to work on the south side and south east side a bit on the up draft into the main body. We should see results by noon tomorrow. Alas, the storm has grown but factors that will keep it together have been eliminated and instead of a 72 hr time period before the storm starts to drop.... but... by 10:00 PM on the 16^th the storm Dianmu will start to dissipate rapidly. 

Perhaps it would be best to wait and see before I go further with this interview. I would not want to waste your time and it has surprised me, how much attention has been required by this storm. It is certainly a fighter, if that would be the right way to put it and my energy level is a bit down. So is my beer, for that matter. 

Hurricane Richard: I have time to answer one more question, but let me ask it. You readers should know, “How long have I been able to do this?” 

You  see, I had started out with Psychic Boat Repair in La Paz. But the concept never really took hold. Even when I threw in the free service of "lost items - psychically found" as a bonus it didn't attract the kind of following I had expected. I've been a student of the psychic and paranormal for years. Even when I produced comedy shows it's part psychic, convincing your audience your funny I guess.

Ode to Hurricane Richard

It's like this, I never studied the concept in any form or even thought that anything like it was possible until I went through hurricane Marty in Marina de La Paz in September 22 2003. The eye was a big clue. Although I didn’t realize it at the time, but things began to click and become obvious to me and I experimented on 2 storms, hurricanes, brewing at the same time and I had some success. These being last year’s Nora and Olaf. I found another tropical storm forming near Acapulco and killed it as well....or so I was reluctant to believe.  

I still wasn’t totally convinced, that I was the cause and effect. Then the storm season ended in the Pacific and I was forced to look elsewhere. I found one, no two, in the Atlantic and three more somewhere, else I forget, probably the Indian Ocean. I was still skeptical, I still am sort of. But I was a bit more, no a lot more convinced, that I was killing these storms. Aside from some local stuff, I’ve been waiting for a storm like Dianmu, to really test out my stuff. The early season is sort of like training camp for me. Pump a few sets of tropical storms in the equatorial regions and slap around a few severe thunderstorms in the mid-west, you know, get in shape. (patting the mid-rife accumulation point of a cervesa or two) So, here we are and I’m watching the results just like you are. 

Reporter: I’m sure there are select members of the government who would like to chat with you!  

Hurricane Richard: Maybe, but I bet the insurance companies are the first in line! 

Reporter: Do you intend to profit from your ability to destroy hurricanes, or are you just in this for the glory? 

Hurricane Richard: Now, I have also considered the implications of my work. Do I give up the secret to the good of man or do I get greedy? The answer is, I get a bit greedy, but I think in a good way. In the future I will be happy to explain my justification to gain something for my knowledge, of how to kill a hurricane. But, for now it is a secret that I have shared with just a handful of trusted friends. If anything were to happen to me this secret will still be in the world. 

So stay tuned, if there is anything to my claims, typhoon Dainmu should be my smoking gun.

Tomas

Our thanks to Hurricane Richard. Richard is a part time resident of La Paz and an artisan in glass work. Richard’s glass creations and jewelry can be seen every weekend in Santa Barbara at the beach front art fair and on the wrists of many friends here in Baja. 

We will continue to follow the works of Hurricane Richard as our own hurricane season approaches. And all of us will be counting on him to prevent another season like the last, here in Baja Sur. We here at the LosCabosInsider will also keep score for Richard to help add credence to his claims.

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