Tornado a multimillion-dollar test for father, son
The News Review:
- Tornado a multimillion-dollar test for father, son
- No Place Like Home: Hurricane Katrina’s Lasting Impact
- Hurricane Ivan fails to destroy Caymans rugby
- Uganda: Charity Shock Tornado in Luswata Tourney
- BOOKS: Hurricane Katrina, fact and fiction
- Hurricane Katrina set example
- ’08 tornado losses top $1 billion, report finds
Tornado a multimillion-dollar test for father, son
Atlanta Journal Constitution – Apr 21, 2008
First, there was a spectacular fire complete with the dramatic rescue of a crane operator in 1999. And then last month, it was the most devastating tornado to ever hit downtown Atlanta… “We called this the challenge of all challenges, and that was before any of this happened,” John Aderhold said from the offices of Aderhold Properties, located in the middle of the eight-building Cabbagetown complex. “Someone did ask us if we were on top of an Indian burial ground,” Tom joked. In short, the tornado caused some damage at every building in the project. All the roofs will have to be replaced as well as most of the air conditioners. The total damage probably will end up costing between $10 million and $20 million, Tom said. But he quickly adds that all the buildings will be saved, including Building E, the one that sustained the most damage. In certain corners of the building, there was a “pancake” effect where the floors collapsed on each other.
No Place Like Home: Hurricane Katrina’s Lasting Impact
Science Daily – Science Daily (press release) – Apr 21, 2008
A total of 144 individuals participated in the pilot study, including many who moved away from the area after the disaster and had not returned a year later. More than half the study participants were black, nearly two-thirds had a high school diploma or less education, and nearly 60 percent were unmarried. Nearly three-fourths were employed in the month before the hurricane hit. According to Sastry, who is affiliated with RAND and with the U-M Institute for Social Research (ISR), about 60 percent of study participants had no psychological distress at the time of the interview, while about 20 percent had mild-to-moderate mental illness and another 20 percent had serious mental illness. To assess mental illness, respondents were asked a series of questions from a widely used measure of general psychological distress. How often during the past 30 days, they were asked, did you feel nervous, hopeless, restless or fidgety, depressed, that everything was an effort, and worthless?
Blacks reported substantially higher rates of serious psychological distress than whites, Sastry and Van Landingham reported. Almost one-third of blacks were found to have a high degree of distress, compared to just six percent of whites.
Hurricane Ivan fails to destroy Caymans rugby
Telegraph.co.uk – Apr 21, 2008
To an extent the Caymans were prepared. By Caribbean standards they are wealthy and privileged. Their hurricane shelters can take 10,000 souls – there were probably 40,000 people on the island though – and its people understand about Hurricanes. They have more than any inhabited place on earth – on every 2. 23 years on average – but never one remotely in the league of Ivan. Category Fives rarely make such a direct landfall, they normally rage as tempests out to sea and you just batten don the hatches for a couple of days before resuming life in paradise.
Uganda: Charity Shock Tornado in Luswata Tourney
AllAfrica.com – Apr 21, 2008
After a tension-packed contest that saw both sides score 137 for 10, newcomers Charity took the day by hitting two stumps to none in the six-ball tie breaker. Okwera had earlier picked three wickets for 22 runs as the new team made up of mostly teenagers, limited Tornado B to 137 runs all out. GA_googleFillSlot(“AllAfrica_Story_Inset”);Okwera’s brillint delivery accounted for the exit of Tornado B’s top batsmen in Lawrence Ssematimba,49, (caught by John Tumusiime) and Kenneth Kamyuka, 29, (caught by Yakoub Ahmed) after a morning downpour that had threatened to wash out the game. Despite the low score, it was never going to be an easy chase.
BOOKS: Hurricane Katrina, fact and fiction
Reuters AlertNet – Apr 21, 2008
Immigrant Latinos removed more than 80 percent of the debris from Hurricane Katrina, according to an estimate published in American Anthropology journal. Many of the 100,000 Latino workers who relocated to the Gulf Coast after Katrina were in the country legally, of course, but one in three of the undocumented reconstruction workers reported trouble getting paid for their work, a.
Hurricane Katrina set example
Toronto Star – Apr 21, 2008
One would have to be Rip Van Winkle not to realize what constitutes poverty in the GTA or Canada. While we await the results of yet another study, can we not offer decent, affordable housing to the needy? I suggest that the city put up temporary trailer parks for the poor and homeless until decent housing is built. It was done in the U. after Hurricane Katrina. We have our own hurricane. But ours is a downpour of homeless individuals, and families sheltering in substandard accommodations.
’08 tornado losses top $1 billion, report finds
Palm Beach Post – Apr 21, 2008
Until recently, insurers have taken comfort in the fact that tornado damage historically has not been as severe as that of major hurricanes. "But according to data from catastrophe modeling firms, these events have the potential – with the right conditions – to generate insured losses on par with hurricanes, such as 2004's Hurricane Frances and 2005's Hurricane Rita," the report said. States that recently endured severe tornadoes – including Georgia, Tennessee, Missouri, Kentucky, Alabama, South Carolina, Mississippi and Arkansas – may see increased premiums, deductibles and coverage interruptions, A.