Homes south of Fort Worth suffered tornado damage
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- Homes south of Fort Worth suffered tornado damage
- Storms, tornado batter state
- World Vision preparing for busy hurricane season
- McCain Faults Bush Response to Gulf Storm
- Hampton Roads hurricane evacuees will have a tough time leaving Dodge…
Homes south of Fort Worth suffered tornado damage
Dallas Morning News – Apr 25, 2008
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A tornado is what damaged or destroyed homes near Crowley on Wednesday night, officials confirmed Thursday. The tornado was about 100 yards wide and traveled about one-quarter of a mile, wreaking havoc on houses along Sharondale Drive in unincorporated southern Tarrant County. NMC_25weatherRESCUE… com
A tornado is what damaged or destroyed homes near Crowley on Wednesday night, officials confirmed Thursday. The tornado was about 100 yards wide and traveled about one-quarter of a mile, wreaking havoc on houses along Sharondale Drive in unincorporated southern Tarrant County. NMC_25weatherRESCUE.
Storms, tornado batter state
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (subscription… – Apr 25, 2008
The willow tree blew over onto the Wadinas’ roof in a brief but intense storm at midday Friday. A line of storms spawned hail and a tornado elsewhere in the state Friday evening. A fast-moving storm system that spawned at least one tornado hit central and southern Wisconsin on Friday with heavy rains, large hail and wind gusts as high as 65 mph. About a half dozen buildings in rural Columbia County were damaged by a twister that touched down about two miles west of Wyocena, knocking out power to about 4,000 people. Another 19,000 people were affected by power failures later Friday night from high winds and lightning strikes. Wyocena is about 30 miles north of Madison. “Our severe weather season has begun,” said J… The willow tree blew over onto the Wadinas’ roof in a brief but intense storm at midday Friday. A line of storms spawned hail and a tornado elsewhere in the state Friday evening. A fast-moving storm system that spawned at least one tornado hit central and southern Wisconsin on Friday with heavy rains, large hail and wind gusts as high as 65 mph. About a half dozen buildings in rural Columbia County were damaged by a twister that touched down about two miles west of Wyocena, knocking out power to about 4,000 people. Another 19,000 people were affected by power failures later Friday night from high winds and lightning strikes. Wyocena is about 30 miles north of Madison.
World Vision preparing for busy hurricane season
Reuters AlertNet – Apr 25, 2008
Four 40-foot containers, each with enough relief supplies to assist 300 families, were shipped from World Vision warehouses in Denver and Dubai to Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Honduras and Nicaragua. Three more containers are due to arrive soon in Mexico and El Salvador. The six pilot countries were selected based on their likelihood of being significantly affected during the hurricane season. The pre-positioned supplies include blankets, cooking sets, treated mosquito nets, shovels, tarps and water purification tablets. The supplies will be immediately accessible when an emergency occurs anywhere in the region. World Vision also has a team of disaster experts in the region who can respond within 24-72 hours of an emergency. “Pre-positioning is a key component in World Vision’s preparedness strategy,” said Nicole Peter, World Vision’s emergency program officer in Latin America.
McCain Faults Bush Response to Gulf Storm
New York Times – Apr 25, 2008
Bush first surveyed the damage when he flew over New Orleans in Air Force One when coming home from his Texas ranch two days after the hurricane, an act widely criticized. McCain has condemned the government’s handling of the hurricane in the past, including the actions of Congress, which he did again Thursday. But he has not used such sharp language, and not in the Lower Ninth Ward during a presidential campaign with a phalanx of reporters and camera crews in tow. McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, made his remarks toward the end of his tour of “America’s forgotten places. ” Through the week, he has gone to regions rarely visited by Republican candidates, including Appalachia and the Black Belt of Alabama, and has sought to project himself to moderates, independents and swing voters as a different kind of Republican from the one who now occupies the White House… His campaign responded that he opposed the bill because of unnecessary spending in it and that he was committed to the recovery of New Orleans. McCain made his first trip to New Orleans after the hurricane in March 2006 and called for more federal money for.
Hampton Roads hurricane evacuees will have a tough time leaving Dodge…
Free Lance-Star – The Free Lance-Star – Apr 25, 2008
House of Representatives, 2006″NEW ORLEANS,” wrote Mark Fischetti in Scientific Amer- ican in 2001, “is a disaster waiting to happen. ” Indeed, less than four years after that article appeared, Hurricane Katrina proved what many had known for a long, long time: The federal flood-control system around the city was too weak to withstand a Katrina-type storm. In August 2005, the below-sea-level “bowl” that cradled New Orleans also drowned her. More than 1,400 people died, and the city sustained over $50 billion in damages. The costliest natural disaster in U… Specifically, the state’s failure to provide adequate roads could trap Hampton Roads residents should a hurricane force an evacuation of that area. The main road leading from Virginia Beach, Norfolk, Hampton, and Newport News, Interstate 64, is, in most places, two lanes in each direction. VDEM hurricane program manager Stewart Baker recently told Hampton Roads officials it could take a family fleeing a Category 2 storm over 15 hours traveling up I-64 just to reach the outskirts of Richmond. That’s more than five times the norm. A Category 3 or above hurricane would prompt more to evacuate, and could leave families crawling along for over 28 hours–most likely trapping thousands in their cars when the storm hit. VDOT recently installed hurricane gates on entrance and exit ramps that would allow the governor to make I-64 “westbound only” on both sides to ease evacuation strains.