Riding the Hurricane Turn Alaska’s flag-stop train
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- Riding the Hurricane Turn Alaska’s flag-stop train
- Houston Soldier Killed In Iraq Helped With Hurricane Relief
- No End in Sight for Hurricane-Housing Limbo
- Mini-tornado dumps hail west of Brisbane
- Building Codes Worked During Hurricane Rita Study Shows
- Panthers claw past Black Tornado
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Riding the Hurricane Turn Alaska’s flag-stop train
Seattle Times – Jan 26, 2007
Bring your own picnic. (Bush residents are not stranded after the summer season. The Hurricane Turn makes a flag-stop run the first Thursday of each month. In addition the Aurora the winter train that commutes between Anchorage and Fairbanks on weekends also will make flag stops. )Two self-propelled diesel cars known in the industry as RDCs or Budd Cars are coupled to form the Hurricane Turn. The antique cars were built in Philadelphia by the Budd Co.
Houston Soldier Killed In Iraq Helped With Hurricane Relief
KLTV – Jan 26, 2007
11 News reporter Nancy Holland first met Captain Lyerly much closer to home. Texas Military Forces Sean Lyerly 31 was a captain with the Texas National Guard. The Texan flew missions that were part of the Hurricane Rita relief efforts. n that hot September day then Lt. Lyerly had been asked to fly relief supplies to hurricane victims in Beaumont. Not long before that he had plucked people from the water of Katrina. He remembered their faces.
No End in Sight for Hurricane-Housing Limbo
Austin Chronicle – Jan 26, 2007
Most recently the cutoff deadline had been slated for the end of February. “It is a relief that President Bush has extended housing assistance for six more months. But for roughly 470 hurricane survivors living in Austin whose homes in New rleans are still just rubble and for the many elderly and disabled evacuees who cannot make it on their own this extension is not enough. Texas needs a long-term housing solution for hurricane survivors whose homes and lives were destroyed” said Kristin Carlisle a policy analyst with the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service an Austin-based affordable-housing advocacy organization in an e-mail. “A disaster of such biblical proportions cannot be addressed by temporary assistance and last-minute extensions of rental subsidies. Until their Gulf Coast communities are rebuilt and affordable the federal government must guarantee that devastated families have a place to live. ” Jo Kathryn Quinn director of Self Sufficiency Services for Caritas of Austin a provider of case-management services to evacuees noted in a press release that some hurricane survivors in Austin still need federal assistance… “It is a relief that President Bush has extended housing assistance for six more months. But for roughly 470 hurricane survivors living in Austin whose homes in New rleans are still just rubble and for the many elderly and disabled evacuees who cannot make it on their own this extension is not enough. Texas needs a long-term housing solution for hurricane survivors whose homes and lives were destroyed” said Kristin Carlisle a policy analyst with the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service an Austin-based affordable-housing advocacy organization in an e-mail. “A disaster of such biblical proportions cannot be addressed by temporary assistance and last-minute extensions of rental subsidies. Until their Gulf Coast communities are rebuilt and affordable the federal government must guarantee that devastated families have a place to live. ” Jo Kathryn Quinn director of Self Sufficiency Services for Caritas of Austin a provider of case-management services to evacuees noted in a press release that some hurricane survivors in Austin still need federal assistance. “As FEMA cuts evacuees from housing assistance we are encountering increasingly desperate families including people with disabilities the elderly and children who have been displaced yet once again.
Mini-tornado dumps hail west of Brisbane
ABC Regional nline – ABC Regional nline – Jan 26, 2007
19:14 (AEST)Friday 26 January 2007. 20:14 (ACDT)Friday 26 January 2007. 18:14 (AWDT)A mini-tornado has swept through Laidley west of Brisbane this afternoon dropping large hail over properties. The weather bureau says a thunderstorm developed at about 5pm AEST before developing into the mini-tornado which lasted for several minutes. Forecaster Brett Harrison says winds have eased off but heavy rain should continue for a while. “It was causing a fair bit of damage and not just the tornado but we have had reports of hail about 20 centimetres in size as well as very strong winds and heavy rainfall from that same thunderstorm” he said… The weather bureau says a thunderstorm developed at about 5pm AEST before developing into the mini-tornado which lasted for several minutes. Forecaster Brett Harrison says winds have eased off but heavy rain should continue for a while. “It was causing a fair bit of damage and not just the tornado but we have had reports of hail about 20 centimetres in size as well as very strong winds and heavy rainfall from that same thunderstorm” he said.
Building Codes Worked During Hurricane Rita Study Shows
Insurance Journal – Jan 26, 2007
TWIA is the insurer of last resort for wind coverage in 14 counties along the Texas Gulf Coast. The analysis focused on whether dwellings built to the new stricter building codes had less damage than those that were not built to the new building codes. Two issues were researched: the percent of claims reported compared to the total number of dwellings insured and the average paid loss for those claims reported. “The study which included the counties most affected by Rita Jefferson Chambers and Galveston showed that there were far fewer claims reported for dwellings built to the new codes and the average paid loss per dwelling was 40-50 percent less” according to Sandra Helin a spokesperson for TWIA.
Panthers claw past Black Tornado
Mail Tribune – Jan 26, 2007
North Medford’s top efforts came from freshmen Cory Haggans and Robert Ross. Haggans pinned South Medford freshman Brett Hullstrom at 140 while Ross earned a fall over Panther freshman John Henselmen at 215. The Tornado (9-5 4-3 SWC) also picked up victories from Tyson Scott (119) and Kody Bonham (171). “They won the matches they needed to win and picked up a couple of others where I thought we had the upper hand going in” North Medford coach Bill Jones said. “But I was proud of our freshmen. They did a great job. 103 — Double forfeit; 112 — Steven Lines SM won by forfeit; 119 — Tyson Scott NM dec.
Movies | projo.com | The Providence Journal
Providence Journal – Jan 26, 2007
The big-screen IMAX documentary Hurricane on the Bayou proves that filmmakers can’t always be certain of winding up with the movie they had set out to make. In early 2005 director Greg MacGillivray began shooting his documentary film in Louisiana planning to use it as a warning about how the destruction of the wetlands in the marshy southern part of the state which had been credited with reducing the force of hurricanes in the region could lead to grave dangers in the future. MacGillivray’s warning story became all too real in August of that year when Hurricane Katrina came crashing into New rleans spilling the Mississippi River over and through the levees and into the city. It was the costliest natural disaster in U… history from which the city of New rleans has yet to recover. Much of the power and sweep of Hurricane on the Bayou comes from footage shot shortly after Katrina left the city swamped with water. Most of us have seen some of these images on television but in the clarity and scope of the six-story-tall IMAX screen they seem all the more shocking and immense. Although the filmmakers have staged a couple of computer-generated shots of the destruction being visited on the city by Katrina as her winds whipped by — a water tower collapsing tiles from the Superdome being peeled off and sent hurtling toward the camera — it’s the follow up that’s most startling. We see that water tower now lying in a heap. We see an uncontrolled fire roaring through a house on a water-filled street.