Hurricane center director chastised for comments to media
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- Hurricane center director chastised for comments to media
- For Nebraskans twister-torn Kansas town hit home.
- Documentary planned about tornado
- Father’s Day Brings Flooding Road Closures And A Tornado Touchdown
- Will the people depend on FEMA again?
- Guard gets new equipment for storm season: Rolling stock including…
Hurricane center director chastised for comments to media
USA Today – Jun 17, 2007
Bill Proenza has been talking about the QuikScat satellite since taking office in January. The satellite was launched in 1999 and designed to last two to three years but is now showing signs of its age. Certain hurricane forecasts could be up to 16% less accurate if it fails Proenza has said. That could lead to wider areas placed under hurricane watches and warnings. A satellite with technology meant to replace QuikScat would not fly until 2016 seven years later than planned The Associated Press reported this week.
For Nebraskans twister-torn Kansas town hit home.
Free with registration – maha World-Herald – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jun 17, 2007
17–GREENSBURG Kan. — They visited this tornado-shattered town Saturday to lend labor and provide proof that people are tougher than tornadoes. Forty-three residents of… for the six-hour ride to Greensburg in south-central Kansas. A tornado pounded Greensburg on May 4 wiping out much of the community and killing more than 10 in the area. The disaster made Greensburg and Hallam kindred spirits for the Nebraska community was similarly wiped out by a tornado on May 22 2004. In their one-day visit Hallam residents wanted to do a little of what hundreds had done for them in 2004. It was their turn to help a suffering town. “It’s just awesome what all the volunteers did (for Hallam)” said Joetta Schwaninger whose gray hair slipped beneath her broad-brimmed hat.
Documentary planned about tornado
Enid News & Eagle – Jun 17, 2007
They will show a trailer for the film “n the Trail of a Killer” and answer questions. The tornado which hit April 9 1947 was the deadliest ever in klahoma killing more than 100 people in Woodward. klahoma storyteller Jack Parker remembers hearing many accounts of the storm as a boy growing up in western klahoma. He has spent hours in libraries museums and talking with survivors to learn more. A couple of years ago Parker teamed up with klahoma-based Quiet Sight in order to reach the public with these stories more effectively. “This is a story that must be told” Crowdis said… A couple of years ago Parker teamed up with klahoma-based Quiet Sight in order to reach the public with these stories more effectively. “This is a story that must be told” Crowdis said. The documentary will include interviews from tornado survivors and also will feature interviews and information from leading weather experts at the Severe Storm Center in Norman. “ur goal is to get many different perspectives on the story in order to better understand what these folks really went through” Crowdis said.
Father’s Day Brings Flooding Road Closures And A Tornado Touchdown
KWTX – Jun 17, 2007
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Will the people depend on FEMA again?
FinalCall.com – Jun 17, 2007
A year-and-a-half after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita FEMA is auctioning off at fire-sale prices thousands of trailers used by storm victims raising fears among mobile-home dealers that the government will flood the market and depress prices. Months later in 2006 members of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee released a 740-page report titled “Hurricane Katrina: A Nation Still Unprepared” that called for the dismantlement and rebuilding of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in the wake of its flawed response to Hurricane Katrina. ne year later the Senate is resurfacing those recommendations and holding more hearings as part of an effort to get FEMA officials to move quickly to implement emergency response reforms that were adopted in the Post-Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act of 2006… Months later in 2006 members of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee released a 740-page report titled “Hurricane Katrina: A Nation Still Unprepared” that called for the dismantlement and rebuilding of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in the wake of its flawed response to Hurricane Katrina. ne year later the Senate is resurfacing those recommendations and holding more hearings as part of an effort to get FEMA officials to move quickly to implement emergency response reforms that were adopted in the Post-Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act of 2006. “When Katrina hit New rleans and the Gulf Coast in August 2005causing the deaths of over 1500 people destroying billions of dollars in property and uprooting millions of liveswe watched live on television as a region drowned and our emergency response systems floundered” stated Senator Joseph I. during a May 22 hearing.
Guard gets new equipment for storm season: Rolling stock including…
Free with registration – Miami Herald – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jun 17, 2007
17–CAMP BLANDING — When soldiers from the Florida National Guard’s 53rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team went home from annual training in North Florida last week they took with them three dozen tan-colored Humvees and other vehicles easing at least part of the Guard’s equipment crisis. The vehicles are part of $86 million worth of equipment that the National Guard Bureau has committed to Florida over the next six months that will help replace equipment left behind in Iraq and Afghanistan over the past four years. The Humvees are important at the start of hurricane season because soldiers from across the state assigned to the 53rd Brigade will be first on the streets of South Florida helping with search-and-rescue and security even before hurricane winds have fully died down. ‘DRP IN THE BUCKET’ With the number of Florida Guard troops deployed overseas at its lowest level in three years and with the military starting to replace equipment left behind Guard leaders say they have enough troops and.