Hurricane Dean shows need for stringent building codes
The News Review:
- Hurricane Dean shows need for stringent building codes
- Lapeer County family example of “Fenton” tornado’s reach
- Curse to blessing: Fenton takes stock one month after tornado
- OU plays pinball against Hurricane
Hurricane Dean shows need for stringent building codes
Jamaica Observer – Sep 22, 2007
These mostly apply to the appearance of the houses the main one being that you can’t armour-plate the place with the hideous grillwork which is now a standard feature of Jamaican housing. All such protection has to be installed inside the house and therefore doesn’t affect the outward appearance. When Hurricane Andrew ravaged south Florida some years back the authorities in that US state discovered that many of the buildings which sustained damage showed signs of shoddy workmanship and the failure to observe even the minimum building codes. So the authorities tightened the building codes as well as the administration thereof. This policy paid off in subsequent hurricanes which produced far less damage to buildings than before. In memoriam: It is with much regret that I learned this week of the death of a long-time colleague and friend Clifton Segree. I met him when I joined RJR 42 years ago.
Lapeer County family example of “Fenton” tornado’s reach
mlive.com – Sep 22, 2007
ESTMORE AP HEADLINES » Lapeer County family example of “Fenton” tornado’s reachby James L. Smith | The Flint JournalSaturday September 22 2007 4:13 PM HADLEY TWP. — Standing outside her tornado-damaged home Robin Mitchell talks about how blessed the family was to escape injury on Aug. In the next breath her eyes well with tears when she talks about the loss of homemade Christmas ornaments she and husband Steve made as children and the ones her children have made. It’s been that kind of month. The Mitchells and their three children Devyn 11 Kynson 7 and Rowyn 5 are coping after a tornado blew a swath through a small section of Lapeer County on the same day Fenton was hit… “It’s amazing how the community friends and family even people we don’t know have helped us” Robin Mitchell said. “We are truly blessed. When the tornado came through it ripped open the family’s pole barn and tore the garage off the house taking boxes of family photos and holiday decorations. Family china — Grandma’s hand-painted Christmas set and an ornate dragon pattern brought home from World War II by Robin Mitchell’s late father — was gone with the wind. Bits and pieces have been found but where the rest ended up is known only to the wind or cornfields. A Frosty the Snowman statue was found across the road but Santa disappeared. Mitchell recently said she burst into tears at a garage sale when she spotted Christmas ornaments.
Curse to blessing: Fenton takes stock one month after tornado
mlive.com – Sep 22, 2007
ESTMORE AP HEADLINES » Curse to blessing: Fenton takes stock one month after tornadoby Christofer Machniak | The Flint JournalSaturday September 22 2007 2:28 PM FENTON — Nearly one month after a tornado tore through town a tilted flagpole greets visitors at the city cemetery gaps in shingles stand out atop of a prominent downtown church and blue tarps drape several homes in the most affected neighborhood on the city’s east side. But for some that’s not the worst of the impact of the Aug. (In) nine days I got 15 hours of sleep” said Howard Street resident William Rickerman… In reflecting on the disaster the mayor said that in some ways it still feels unreal especially since some people believed the area’s rolling hills protected it from tornados. Then again she said maybe they somehow did. “Who would ever think a tornado would hit?” she asked. “I’d like to think God was looking out for us. Hills or no hills we were blessed.
OU plays pinball against Hurricane
Tulsa World – Sep 22, 2007
That’s why a perfect 8-0 record in conference play probably won’t cut it for OU. If the other three teams in football’s version of the Final Four keep rolling the Sooners must steamroll their conference brothers by impressive margins to make a move up the polls. In their in-state contest with the previously undefeated Hurricane (2-1) the Sooners looked more than capable of continuing their offensive fireworks. OU entered the game averaging 61. 3 points a contest in wins over North Texas Miami (Fla. ) and Utah State and topped it. Sure the Sooner defense looked shaky early on.