Hurricane damage to delay startup of Exxon LNG facility in Texas
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- Hurricane damage to delay startup of Exxon LNG facility in Texas
- Texas ranchers farmers struggle after Ike
- Panel to urge national safety standards for levees
- IHPA Forms Consumer Safety Task Force for Hurricane Protection …
- Study of Greensburg tornado uncovers new details
- Spike in domestic violence shelter need attributed to hurricane …
Hurricane damage to delay startup of Exxon LNG facility in Texas
SmartBrief DC
liquefied natural gas facility in Texas sustained damage from Hurricane Ike almost three month ago that will delay its start according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. The facility was scheduled to start up in the middle of next year but assessing the damage has taken time sources said. Kimberly Brasington an Exxon representative said speculating on the outcome of the assessment would be premature.
Texas ranchers farmers struggle after Ike
Houston Chronicle United States
“I’m to the bottom” said Lagow a retired teacher like her sister. Staples said the federal government has approved more than $100 million for disaster recovery assistance. But that money is not only for Ike victims but also for those affected by this summer’s Midwest floods and Hurricane Dolly in South Texas. Texas’ total will be about $13. “That is a drop in the bucket compared to the total devastation suffered by Texas agriculture” he said. “There could be additional funds down the road.
Panel to urge national safety standards for levees
USA Today
Many levees across the country are outdated and “not designed to protect the population they now have living behind them” the panel finds although no one knows how many people do. Next month the committee — which was formed after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 — will call for a new national levee safety program in a formal report to Congress says Eric Halpin the panel’s chairman and special assistant for dam and levee safety in the Army Corps of Engineers. “We need to change the way we look at (flood) risk in this country” Halpin adds noting that levees have not gotten the attention they need to ensure the safety of the millions of people who rely on them. “People see (floods) as really infrequent events from which they don’t have to protect themselves when the opposite is true. If you live behind a levee you are seven times more likely to be flooded than to have a fire in your home. The federal government should catalog all of the nation’s levees and determine their adequacy the report will say.
IHPA Forms Consumer Safety Task Force for Hurricane Protection …
PR Newswire (press release) NY
“The IHPA and the Attorney General of Florida have been made aware of acontinued increase in advertising and marketing misleading consumers intobuying products that do not meet the Florida Building Code (FBC) requirementsfor hurricane protection” Feeley said. “The difference in choosing approvedor non-approved Hurricane protection systems can dramatically affect thesurvival of a home and its contents and in some cases can be a life or deathdecision. This type of deceptive trade practice needs to stop and thecompanies profiting from this should be held accountable. Feeley continued “Florida is an attractive target for deceptive schemesdue to our high exposure to hurricanes large retired population and constantinflux of new residents.
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Study of Greensburg tornado uncovers new details
Hays Daily News KS
A vortex hole “is what you would see in the eye of a hurricane” he said. The holes form when winds are rotating so rapidly they pull debris and even large raindrops from the center of the storm he said. The Trousdale tornado’s vortex hole was about two miles in diameter not much smaller than the eye of Hurricane Charley a Category 4 hurricane that hit Florida in 2004. Researchers also saw something else they had never seen before: The mesocyclone — or “mother ship” cloud from which tornadoes develop — rotated as rapidly as the tornadoes. The Greensburg outbreak’s mesocyclones rotated so rapidly it was hard to distinguish them from the tornadoes on radar the researchers said. “The intensity of the radar-observed vortex is probably greater than any we’ve ever observed before” said Les Lemon a co-author of the study and research associate meteorologist with the Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies at the University of klahoma. Mike Smith founder and chief executive officer of WeatherData Inc.
Spike in domestic violence shelter need attributed to hurricane …
Beaumont Enterprise tx
However local shelter directors connect the rise in shelter use to Hurricane Ike. Although shelters normally see a spike in calls and needs for beds during the holiday season from Thanksgiving to January many crisis centers across Texas have seen a rise from the normal holiday period according to the Allstate Foundation a charitable arm of the insurance company that focuses on family violence and safe teen driving. The majority of 29 shelters the foundation surveyed this month reported a rise in requests for help and bed space. Walk-ins at one shelter rose 240 percent according to the foundation. “They know what their usual spikes are” said Janemarie Clark Allstate Foundation manager for Texas.