Galveston seawall being repaired after Ike
The News Review:
- Galveston seawall being repaired after Ike
- NSG scouts for photos & footage of peration ‘Black Tornado’
- Hurricane off to a 2-0 start this season
Galveston seawall being repaired after Ike
Houston Chronicle United States
“We wouldn’t be spending millions of dollars if we weren’t really concerned about the wall” said Texas Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson who is responsible for the state’s coastline. “We want it to be there another 100 years. Galveston built the seawall and raised the city behind it after the Great Storm of 1900 a catastrophic hurricane that left the city in ruins. As designed the concrete wall sits atop pine pilings driven 40 to 50 feet into the sand. Blocks of granite known as “riprap” protect it from being undermined. Since then the seawall has protected homes and businesses from a dozen hurricanes. But the latest beach restoration project is a temporary fix as hurricanes can wash away much of a beach in minutes.
NSG scouts for photos & footage of peration ‘Black Tornado’
Hindu India
The National Security Guard is gathering all the visual footage that the electronic media has captured and newspaper and agencies had shot during the three days of the terror attack at the Taj beroi (Trident) and Nariman House for training and archival purposes. The elite blackcat commando force has recently approached national broadcaster Doordarshan for the same purpose. In addition the NSG also plans to approach private television news channels for visual footage. “All the video footage and the photographs that were clicked during the incident would then be sent to the NSG museum in Manesar at Gurgaon where the black cat commandos are based” NSG sources said.
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Hurricane off to a 2-0 start this season
Bixby Bulletin K
– The 13th-ranked Tulsa men’s tennis team defeated conference rival UCF 6-1 on Friday night at the Michael D. Case Tennis Center. The Hurricane (2-0) won all of its doubles matches and picked up five out six singles contests en route the win over the Knights. Tulsa’s fourth-ranked doubles team of Arnau Brugues and Philip Stephens made quick work of 60th-ranked Joe Delinks and Brock Sakey 8-4 in No. 1 doubles while Ross Cunningham and Victor Kolik bounced back from yesterday’s doubles loss against ral Roberts with an 8-4 victory over UCF’s Tarek Ben Soltane and Blaze Schwartz in No. Mark Ballok and Ashley Watling teamed up for the first time this season and picked up an 8-4 win over Johan Beigart and Eugene Dolgovykh in the No.