Are you prepared for a tornado?
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- Are you prepared for a tornado?
- Blackstone Says Markets May Be in `Eye of Hurricane’ (Update2)
- University of Miami’s CSTARS to host valuable hurricane, typhoon…
- Triad tornado victims get help
Are you prepared for a tornado?
MLive.com – May 15, 2008
But the possibility of a storm still exists. “We’ve been very lucky,” said Ernie Ostuno, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Grand Rapids. “Eventually, the luck runs out and we will have a tornado outbreak. What to do before the storm• Develop a plan for you and your family at work, home and when outdoors. • Have frequent drills. • Know the area in which you live and have a map nearby to follow weather bulletins. • Have a battery-operated radio in case of electrical outages… Jackson County last had a tornado in March 2006. The storm, considered moderate on an intensity scale, destroyed a barn and some out buildings in Leoni Township, tore the porch off a house and busted apart trees. It was the fourth tornado, all of them of lower intensity, to hit the county since June 1991, Ostuno said. One of them, a June 1982 storm, was the last fatal tornado in the area. The storm, which moved through Munith into Chelsea, killed a boy who blew off a porch in Wash-tenaw County, Ostuno said. Before that, two people died in a tornado that trekked across Hillsdale and Jackson counties in April 1974. That storm was part of the worst tornado outbreak in the United States, with 148 tornadoes killing more than 300 people from Illinois to Alabama, according to the National Weather Service.
Blackstone Says Markets May Be in `Eye of Hurricane’ (Update2)
Bloomberg – May 15, 2008
“It's not clear to me if it's a permanent upswing, as Ithink many of the banks are saying, or the eye of thehurricane,'' James told reporters on a conference call today. High-yield, high-risk loan prices have climbed from a low of86. 3 cents on the dollar in February to 92. 42 cents after bankswhittled down a backlog of buyout debt to less than $100 billionfrom more than $300 billion last year. Banks still must find away to sell loans and bonds backing the takeovers of telephonecompany BCE Inc.
University of Miami’s CSTARS to host valuable hurricane, typhoon…
EurekAlert – EurekAlert (press release) – May 15, 2008
The CSA has been collecting RADARSAT-1 data over hurricanes and typhoons through its “Hurricane Watch” program since 1998. CSTARS has been a partner since 2004 and provides near-real time RADARSAT-1 images to the “Hurricane Watch” program. In this period, 160 hurricane and typhoon images focusing on the eye of the storm or edge of the eyewall, from around the world, were selected and processed. Researchers will have an opportunity to identify new approaches and applications for the study of hurricane dynamics using this valuable dataset. This
research resource will also help investigators to become better acquainted with the use of remotely sensed data from RADARSAT-2 and other international missions for the future. ###
About CSTARS
Launched in 2003, CSTARS is a major program of the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School, one of the world’s premier marine and atmospheric research institutions. Employing low earth-orbiting satellite systems, CSTARS scientists conduct research using remotely-sensed data.
Triad tornado victims get help
Greensboro News and Record – Greensboro News Record – May 15, 2008
State road crews will begin removing homeowners’ debris Monday. And low-interest loans from the Small Business Administration could be ava.