Hurricane Satellite Could Fail Anytime
The News Review:
- Hurricane Satellite Could Fail Anytime
- Chertoff warns New York City to get ready for hurricane
- … helps fight post-hurricane price gouging: This hurricane…
- The Sacramento Bee Calif. Media Savvy column: Like a hurricane.
Hurricane Satellite Could Fail Anytime
Washington Post – Jun 12, 2007
The aging satellite could fail at any moment and plans to launch a replacement have been pushed back seven years to 2016. The aging satellite could fail at any moment and plans to launch a replacement have been pushed back seven years to 2016.
Chertoff warns New York City to get ready for hurricane
Houston Chronicle – Jun 12, 2007
html NEW YRK — Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff warned Monday that the nation’s largest city needs to be prepared for a hurricane powerful enough to cause serious flooding in lower Manhattan and elsewhere. “It’s always a little odd being in New York and talking about hurricanes” Chertoff said after touring a new command center at the ffice of Emergency Management in Brooklyn. Still he added a hurricane “would be an extraordinarily devastating blow to the city. Weather experts have said New York is about due for a major hurricane with 130 mph winds and a 30-foot storm surge that could cause the Hudson and East Rivers to overflow. Such a storm could inflict more than $100 billion in economic losses while forcing the evacuation of 3 million people — more than six times the population of pre-Katrina New rleans. Historically the city has endured a hurricane roughly once every 90 years. The last major New York-area hurricane in 1938 caused 700 deaths along the Eastern seaboard… “It’s always a little odd being in New York and talking about hurricanes” Chertoff said after touring a new command center at the ffice of Emergency Management in Brooklyn. Still he added a hurricane “would be an extraordinarily devastating blow to the city. Weather experts have said New York is about due for a major hurricane with 130 mph winds and a 30-foot storm surge that could cause the Hudson and East Rivers to overflow. Such a storm could inflict more than $100 billion in economic losses while forcing the evacuation of 3 million people — more than six times the population of pre-Katrina New rleans. Historically the city has endured a hurricane roughly once every 90 years. The last major New York-area hurricane in 1938 caused 700 deaths along the Eastern seaboard. Last year the city unveiled a new hurricane plan to evacuate 3 million people while sheltering more than 600000 others.
… helps fight post-hurricane price gouging: This hurricane…
Free with registration – Miami Herald – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jun 12, 2007
12–A $4 bottle of water at a sporting event can seem like a bargain after a hurricane. But if chaos strikes this hurricane season local consumer ad… 12–A $4 bottle of water at a sporting event can seem like a bargain after a hurricane. But if chaos strikes this hurricane season local consumer advocates have prepared for consumers a reference list of reasonable prices so they’ll be cognizant of potential price gouging. “After a hurricane we are concerned of people getting ripped off — actually we are concerned of the time before the hurricane too” said Larry Kaplan assistant director of Broward’s Consumer Affairs Division. “We wanted people to get an idea of what.
The Sacramento Bee Calif. Media Savvy column: Like a hurricane.
Free with registration – Sacramento Bee – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jun 12, 2007
Even now nearly two years and 2000 miles removed he feels the impact of his time as news director at WDSU in New rleans during the storm that transformed a city and touched the world. It has he says significantly affected the way he does his new job as news director at Channel 3 (KCRA). “Folks in New rleans will tell you that before the hurricane I wished for a hurricane” Williams says a tad sheepishly. “I thought ‘Man we get us a little hurricane going we’re gonna be all right. It’s a good news story. ‘ ” Then came the deluge. And Williams — at 35 considered something of a TV news wunderkind — learned a hard lesson.