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From: Lauria, Joe [mailto:Joe.Lauria@wdaftv4.com]

 Subject: A Special Severe Weather Symposium

Good Morning all...

My apologies for the blanket email but in light of the horrific severe weather season in the US and here closer to home

(Joplin/Sedalia/Reading) FOX 4 has rapidly put together a special Severe Weather Symposium to be held at Union Station (in Kansas City) on SATURDAY June 18th starting @ 9AM and lasting till about 12 or 12:30. This will be held @ the IMAX Theater (seats about 450 with some standing room possible for overflow. This seminar will cover all aspects of severe weather including spotting/chasing and also more of the human element including having an insurance representative there to talk about how a family should be sure they're covered and what pitfalls there are in insurance policies should the worst happen. Also we'll have a child psychologist there talking about how children/adults who have anxiety issues with severe weather scenarios can deal with things better.

Concerning the show/seminar here is the line-up that is pretty firm at this point.

1) An insurance representative potentially from the Joplin area. He will talk about ways to be sure everybody has their insurance coverage in order and ways to make sure that they're properly prepared should the worse hit.

2) A Child Psychologist offering adults ideas/ways to help ease their child's fear/concerns/anxiety concerning severe weather/tornadoes

3) Chris Novy, a nationally known SKYWARN trainer who will be talking about situational awareness in chasing scenarios...he is fabulous if you've never seen his presentation before!

4) Andy Bailey NWS-EAX (Thunderstorm Basics and Intro to Storm Spotting)

5) Reed Timmer (A video recap of the 2011 tornado season so far...Reed is from the Show Storm Chasers)

6) Panel Discussion concerning topics perhaps not covered in the previous talks."

The show/seminar is free but we're asking for a $5 donation that will go to Project Storm Aid which is helping the tornado victims in Joplin/Sedalia/Reading

Pass this along to whomever might be interested. It should be pretty good and the videos will be amazing I think...especially from Reed/Chris and some of the videos we'll be showing...

Complete details are on our website...

http://events.fox4kc.com/Weathering_The_Storm/218858666.html

Thanks for your time this morning and I hope to see some of you there...

Joe Lauria

FOX 4 Weather

Kansas City, MO