Gulf officials discuss hurricane evacuation problems
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- Gulf officials discuss hurricane evacuation problems
- Kansas has fairly typical tornado year in 2008
- ‘Very bad’ tornado season has most deaths since 1968
- BP finishes start-up of Texas City reformer
- Pitt Jolie’s first Hurricane Katrina relief homes open in New rleans
- Bush Insiders Call Katrina ‘Nail in the Coffin’
- Tulsa Graham agree to new 10-year contract
Gulf officials discuss hurricane evacuation problems
USA Today
The current contraflow process sends traffic from Louisiana into Pearl River County just south of Poplarville. In September Gustav dumped in many motorists unfamiliar with the area’s roads and streets. fficials say some hurricane evacuees got lost while others crowded into unprepared service stations and other Poplarville businesses. Things might have gone more smoothly if there had been more workers to help control the traffic Pearl River County Administrator Adrain Lumpkin Jr. “Somewhere or another we need some help on that front end” Lumpkin said during a meeting with Mississippi Public Safety Commissioner Steve Simpson and Byron Thompson deputy director for the state ffice of Homeland Security. County Emergency Management Director Danny Manley said he is working with local businesses to get them to think ahead and prepare for the increased traffic.
Kansas has fairly typical tornado year in 2008
USA Today
Knapp said there were 11 tornadoes of at least F3 strength with the total storm damage in the state estimated around $1. Four people lost their lives in the storms including a Colorado couple whose car was picked up by a tornado in May and flung into a field along U. Two others were killed when a series of June 11 tornadoes roared through Chapman a town of about 1300 west of Junction City across the Kansas State University campus in Manhattan and farther east through Jackson County. A 21-year-old Cloud County Community College student died in Chapman which suffered extensive damage and a 62-year-old farmer was killed in Jackson County when he was thrown from his mobile home.
‘Very bad’ tornado season has most deaths since 1968
DesMoinesRegister.com IA
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BP finishes start-up of Texas City reformer
Reuters
“BP Texas City refinery has achieved its previously statedobjective of restoring the refinery’s full economic capabilityby the end of 2008″ Scott Dean a company spokesman toldReuters. He did not specify what level the plant was currently atciting company policy of never discussing run rates. Dean said the total refurbishment of the 475000 bpdrefinery from the hurricane damage cost about $1 billion. “The reformer was the final major unit to come back thatwould restore the full capacity of the plant after HurricaneRita caused the plant to shut down in 2005″ Dean said. “It (reformer work) was completed in December and then thestart-up was ramped up this week” he added. (Reporting by Haitham Haddadin; Editing by Walter Bagley).
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Pitt Jolie’s first Hurricane Katrina relief homes open in New rleans
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According to mirror. uk the couple set up the foundation – Make it Right – with 3. 5 million pounds of their own money following the 2005 disaster.
Bush Insiders Call Katrina ‘Nail in the Coffin’
Washington Post United States
Now two former advisers to President Bush are saying the deadly hurricane also derailed Bush’s presidency according to Vanity Fair’s “. Dan Bartlett White House communications director and later counselor to the president said: “Politically it was the final nail in the coffin.
Tulsa Graham agree to new 10-year contract
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Graham has led the Golden Hurricane to a 20-7 record the past two seasons with back-to-back appearances at the GMAC Bowl where they will meet 23rd-ranked Ball State on January 6. Tulsa which won its first eight games in 2008 sports a 10-3 mark and will try to repeat last year’s postseason performance an NCAA bowl-record margin of victory in a 63-7 triumph over Bowling Green. “We want to win championships at the University of Tulsa and in football we want to also compete for an opportunity to win a BCS bowl game” Cunningham said. “Todd Graham is the coach who can continue to take the Tulsa football program to even higher levels than what he’s already accomplished. Graham who spent three seasons as a Tulsa assistant (2003-05) was head coach at Rice for one year before becoming the first Hurricane coach in school history to have two 10-win campaigns.