Tornado hits Florida three dozen homes damaged
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- Tornado hits Florida three dozen homes damaged
- Tornado rips path in Pasco neighborhood
- “Hurricane on the Bayou” explores Katrina’s ecological…
- Reaching out to the faithful where Hurricane Ivan struck
- Reaching out to the faithful where Hurricane Ivan struck
- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical U.: Tornado hits Embry-Riddle Aeronautical…
Tornado hits Florida three dozen homes damaged
央è§åé – Dec 26, 2006
At least two homes were destroyed and 10 others damaged. Witnesses say the experience was dramatic… Didn’t even know nothing was going on. ” Local authorities say the storm struck shortly before noon. They say a tornado warning had been issued early on Monday. Damage in Columbia County is estimated at 3. 5 million US Dollars.
Tornado rips path in Pasco neighborhood
St. Petersburg Times – Dec 26, 2006
When her beeper went off Monday she hadn't heard a thing even though she lives blocks from where the tornado hit. "I stepped out of my house and into a war zone" she said. The tornado touched down between the eighth and fifth fairways which are rimmed with manicured modest homes. Back porches were ripped off. Roofs had gaping holes. Doors were blown out. Windows were blasted… Andrea and Scott Podrebar and their two girls had driven from ntario to get some Florida sunshine at the home of Scott Podrebar's parents who stayed in ntario for Christmas. Scott Podrebar's twin brother his wife and their toddler also were in the pink stucco home. They were getting ready to go to a movie when the tornado hit. Andrea Podrebar was drying her hair and saw it and screamed. Her sister-in-law grabbed the three children and rushed them into a closet and shut the door and sang to them in the darkness. When they emerged nearly all the windows were gone. The garage door warped around the car inside.
“Hurricane on the Bayou” explores Katrina’s ecological…
Seattle Times – Dec 26, 2006
Depending on how you feel about the government’s response to Hurricane Katrina “Hurricane on the Bayou” will strike you as: a) a complete whitewash of the “heckuva job” FEMA did or b) a longer-range historical consideration of the reasons New rleans was flooded in the late summer of 2005. There are good reasons to object to the way the new IMAX movie glosses over how the rescue job was handled. If you’ve seen Spike Lee’s devastating HB documentary “When the Levees Broke” or if you watched network news at the time you may be outraged at the way the filmmakers have cleaned up the carnage for science-center audiences. Their only reference to the human loss is that the Federal Emergency Management Agency was “too late for some… com: Northwest news and information from the Seattle Times. Daily local news sports arts and entertainment and classified ads.
Reaching out to the faithful where Hurricane Ivan struck
Globe and Mail – Dec 26, 2006
Father Dominique a native of Barbados acknowledged that his ways of engaging the faithful including his habit of talking directly to individual congregants might be frowned upon by traditionalists. He is however in the right place to be innovative. Since Hurricane Ivan cut a destructive path across Grenada two years ago there’s been an eagerness among Catholic leaders to rethink the relationship between the church and its congregation in a country where Roman Catholics make up a slight majority. The storm which devastated 32 of 54 parishes and ruined the cathedral in St. George’s has been treated as an unexpected opportunity to rethink centuries of church design. “We have had discussions with parishes where we ask ‘What’s this building for?’ ” Rev. Sean Doggett chairman of the Diocesan Building Committee said Christmas Eve at his parish church in Beaulieu.
Reaching out to the faithful where Hurricane Ivan struck
Globe and Mail – Dec 26, 2006
GERGE’S — The hymns were traditional as Rev. Charles Dominique led Roman Catholic Christmas mass yesterday morning in a church near the Grenadian capital but musicians playing guitar tambourine and maracas helped infuse the old European standards with a local flavour. The full text of this article has 662 words.
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical U.: Tornado hits Embry-Riddle Aeronautical…
Free with registration – America's Intelligence Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Dec 26, 2006
(From University Wire) Byline: Joshua Johnson A tornado caused extensive damage to the Daytona Beach campus of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University on the afternoon of Dec. The tornado was one of two spawned by a line of strong thunderstorms that went through the Daytona Beach area at approximately. CPYRIGHT 2006 Financial Times Ltd.