Hurricane season – mild for US but not the rest
The News Review:
- Hurricane season – mild for US but not the rest
- Wins boost Hurricane’s confidence
- Hurricane Katrina the Greatest Natural Disaster America Has Ever…
- Dallas-area bus’s fatal crash probed
Hurricane season – mild for US but not the rest
Reuters AlertNet – Nov 27, 2007
but not the rest –> By Michael Christie MIAMI Nov 27 (Reuters) – For a second year in a row the United States has escaped a severe hurricane hit pushing memories of Hurricane Katrina and the flooding of New Orleans another notch into the past. But for Mexico Central America and the Caribbean the 2007 hurricane season ending on Friday has hardly been benign. "No not at all. The consequences for the poor have been very high" said Judy Dacruz a representative in Haiti of the International Organization for Migration. The 14 tropical storms that formed in the Atlantic this season killed more than 200 people in Martinique Jamaica the Dominican Republic Haiti Nicaragua and Mexico and caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damage to often impoverished and vulnerable communities throughout the region… Yet most of the storms were perplexingly short-lived lasting on average just 2. 4 days the lowest ratio since 1977 according to a noted hurricane season forecasting team at Colorado State University. "Our 2007 seasonal hurricane forecast was not particularly successful. We anticipated an above-average season and the season had activity at approximately average levels" Philip Klotzbach Bill Gray and other CSU forecasters said in an end-of-season report on Tuesday. The CSU team had predicted there would be 17 storms this year. DIFFERENT VIEW In the Caribbean and Central America though few were breathing sighs of relief. In the Mexican town of Mahahual on the Yucatan Peninsula Hurricane Dean destroyed a cruise ship pier which had been a key source of income.
Wins boost Hurricane’s confidence
Tulsa World – Nov 27, 2007
” Since the miraculous victory over SMU when it appeared all hope was lost Tulsa has continued to find ways to win. Nothing has come easy for the Golden Hurricane. TU has had to work to beat just about anyone. “You are going to go through some valleys and you’ll have some high peaks” said Graham. “I’ve said all along you are going to have to win some close games. ” Tulsa has done that.
Hurricane Katrina the Greatest Natural Disaster America Has Ever…
PR.com – PR.com (press release) – Nov 27, 2007
com)– Not since the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl of the 1930s has America experienced a natural disaster on the scale of Hurricane Katrina. Chronicles of Katrina: Lessons Learned from the Hurricane Katrina Disaster for Your Home Preparedness Planning by Steven Craig with a foreword by former FEMA director Michael Brown provides a summary of recovery in the Gulf region and advice on how to prepare for future disasters. “Resiliency will get us through the next disaster whether a small one in our local communities or the large one like Katrina covering tens of thousands of square miles. We must be resilient by being prepared at home. And we start down the road toward resiliency by paying attention to the lessons Steven Craig writes about in Chronicles of Katrina. ” —Michael D.
Dallas-area bus’s fatal crash probed
Dallas Morning News – Nov 27, 2007
Three people – two of them passengers – died when a bus from Tornado Bus Co. in Oak Cliff crossed the median on rain-slickened Interstate 40 in eastern Arkansas about 10 p. slammed into a pickup and then was hit by a tractor-trailer. At least 26 others were hospitalized… In 2006 another Dallas bus company catering to Mexican immigrants was involved in a fatal crash in Oklahoma. The bus operated by Autobuses El Conejo and heading for Dallas rolled over on an icy highway killing two people including an 8-year-old boy. In 2005 a bus carrying Hurricane Rita evacuees burst into flames on Interstate 45 near Wilmer killing 23 nursing home patients. The fire along with a fatal bus crash in Georgia prompted U. Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas to propose a bus safety bill earlier this month.