Republicans facing ‘electoral hurricane’ in face of centrist…
The News Review:
- Republicans facing ‘electoral hurricane’ in face of centrist…
- Tornado Causes Damage in Fla. Town
- Get ready for Hurricane Duppy
- NASA Looks At Sea Level Rise Hurricane Risks To New York City
- ‘Hurricane’ of fire swept over crew
Republicans facing ‘electoral hurricane’ in face of centrist…
guardian.co.uk – Oct 28, 2006
It is a strategic retreat aimed at bigger gains. It gives ground on some hot-button social issues and focuses instead on populist economics raising the minimum wage redistributing tax breaks from the wealthy and big corporations to the working poor while attempting to wrest control of US foreign policy. The Democrats have been carried along by widespread anger at the Bush administration’s conduct of the Iraq war cronyism and its disastrous response to Hurricane Katrina. nly a quarter of Americans polled think the country is going in the right direction and less than a fifth think Congress is doing a good job. In post-Katrina America the metaphors for this political moment have been decidedly watery. Pundits talk of an anti-incumbent flood or a tsunami. Charlie Cook the country’s pre-eminent election guru talks of a “Category Five hurricane” heading for the Republicans.
Tornado Causes Damage in Fla. Town
FXNews – Oct 28, 2006
— This seaside town was without power Saturday after a tornado tore through the area damaging several buildings and leaving two people with minor injuries authorities said. Some residents could have power restored on Saturday said Butch Baker Franklin County’s emergency management director. “The best case scenario would be midnight and that may not be all over the entire town”Baker said. Baker said eyewitnesses confirmed that it was a tornado that struck the town of some 2500 people about 65 miles southwest of Tallahassee. “It was like a black wall”Helen Reese an admission clerk at George E… Some residents could have power restored on Saturday said Butch Baker Franklin County’s emergency management director. “The best case scenario would be midnight and that may not be all over the entire town”Baker said. Baker said eyewitnesses confirmed that it was a tornado that struck the town of some 2500 people about 65 miles southwest of Tallahassee. “It was like a black wall”Helen Reese an admission clerk at George E. Weems Memorial Hospital told The News Herald of Panama City on Friday. “It was coming right at us. It was a horrible noise.
Get ready for Hurricane Duppy
Jamaica Gleaner – Oct 28, 2006
The local obeah woman is insisting that the troubled family should make a collection from the rest of the district to pay the fees. These are poor farmers and the sum is high. The folks are now bracing for Hurricane Duppy. A gang of duppies has a district under siege and this is not Sandy Bay in Clarendon. The lotto numbers for last Saturday were: 10 11 15 20 23 25 and 3 as the bonus number. There were the consecutive numbers of 10 and 11 and there were two winners of the bonus five category of $256653 each. The jackpot increased to $26 million.
NASA Looks At Sea Level Rise Hurricane Risks To New York City
sciencedaily.com – Oct 28, 2006
5 inches in the metropolitan region by the 2080s. "With sea level at these higher levels flooding by major storms would inundate many low-lying neighborhoods and shut down the entire metropolitan transportation system with much greater frequency" said Gornitz. With sea level rise New York City faces an increased risk of hurricane storm surge. Storm surge is an above normal rise in sea level accompanying a hurricane. Hurricanes are categorized on the Saffir-Simpson scale from 1 to 5 with 5 being the strongest and most destructive. The scale is used to give an estimate of the potential property damage and flooding expected along the coast from a hurricane landfall. Wind speed is the determining factor in the scale as storm surge values are highly dependent on the slope of the continental shelf and the shape of the coastline in the landfall region… Gornitz will present these findings at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America in Philadelphia during the week of ct. To understand what hurricane storm surges would do to the city surge levels for hurricanes of categories 1 through 4 were calculated by the U. Army Corps of Engineers for the 1995 Metro New York Hurricane Transportation Study using NAA’s SLSH computer model. SLSH (Sea Lake and verland Surges from Hurricanes) is a computerized model run by the National Hurricane Center to estimate storm surge heights resulting from historical hypothetical or predicted hurricanes by taking into account pressure; size forward speed track and hurricane winds. According to the 1995 study a category three hurricane on a worst-case track could create a surge of up to 25 feet at JFK Airport 21 feet at the Lincoln Tunnel entrance 24 feet at the Battery and 16 feet at La Guardia Airport.
‘Hurricane’ of fire swept over crew
Press-Enterprise – Oct 28, 2006
htm” –> Comments. Forest Service engine still sitting in the small parking area the clothing of its dead and injured firefighters still lying in heaps on the ground.