‘DC Tornado’ Ready to Wipe [Your Town] ff the Map!
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- ‘DC Tornado’ Ready to Wipe [Your Town] ff the Map!
- ‘We Called It Hurricane FEMA’
- Tunica Tenn. casinos see revenue growth slow as hurricane victims…
‘DC Tornado’ Ready to Wipe [Your Town] ff the Map!
Washington Post – Mar 11, 2007
Tornado” tonight at 9:30. In the show a Category 4 tornado apparently with an appetite for tourists and lawmakers comes straight up the Mall at 5 p. It goes right through the Washington Monument between the museums and smack into the Capitol dome! It picks up a tourist van on Constitution Avenue the one driving 11 mph with his left blinker on for eternity and flings it out to Largo!Is this great television or what?If you’re not familiar with this brand of weather porn “It Could Happen Tomorrow” is a series in which the Weather Channel goes around destroying large parts of the United States. It’s pretty ghoulish if you think about it but there’s some sort of irresistible rubbernecking quality to watching what-if scenarios of a major Category 3 hurricane hitting Manhattan or an 8… It goes right through the Washington Monument between the museums and smack into the Capitol dome! It picks up a tourist van on Constitution Avenue the one driving 11 mph with his left blinker on for eternity and flings it out to Largo!Is this great television or what?If you’re not familiar with this brand of weather porn “It Could Happen Tomorrow” is a series in which the Weather Channel goes around destroying large parts of the United States. It’s pretty ghoulish if you think about it but there’s some sort of irresistible rubbernecking quality to watching what-if scenarios of a major Category 3 hurricane hitting Manhattan or an 8. 0 earthquake wiping out San Francisco. Pat Robertson would have a field day deciding who did what to deserve such wrath!The Weather Channel people tend to favor twisters (Dallas and Chicago get blasted too) and now it’s Washington’s turn. The show uses the devastating F-5 tornado that hit La Plata in 2002 as the model for the plausibility of a D.
‘We Called It Hurricane FEMA’
Washington Post – Mar 11, 2007
– Shortly after noon FEMA agents began rapping on the trailer doors their knocks resounding inside the tinny white homes. Everyone in the park the agents announced without warning would have to pack and leave within 48 hours. – By Peter Whoriskey Comments.
Tunica Tenn. casinos see revenue growth slow as hurricane victims…
Free with registration – Commercial Appeal – AccessMyLibrary.com – Mar 11, 2007
Stable is the word you hear most often about the business as operators and tourism advocates try to figure out ways to break the market out of the old no-growth doldrums despite strong numbers last year. “The difference from 2005 to 2006 was the increased business after (Hurricane) Katrina” said John sborne general manager of Hollywood Casino. But the Hurricane Katrina-induced traffic had lasting impact said Jeff Wallace senior research analyst at the Sparks Bureau of Business and Economic Research at University of Memphis. “It gave people a chance to see what Tunica has to offer and I have no doubt the casinos there were quite pleasing to people who had never been there before” Wallace said. The hurricane wiped out all Gulf Coast casino business from September… But the Hurricane Katrina-induced traffic had lasting impact said Jeff Wallace senior research analyst at the Sparks Bureau of Business and Economic Research at University of Memphis. “It gave people a chance to see what Tunica has to offer and I have no doubt the casinos there were quite pleasing to people who had never been there before” Wallace said. The hurricane wiped out all Gulf Coast casino business from September. CPYRIGHT 2007 The Commercial Appeal.