Updated: More intense storms expected Thursday Friday
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- Updated: More intense storms expected Thursday Friday
- Tornado warnings to convey danger more urgently
- Disaster: Homestead Fla. hit by foreclosures
Updated: More intense storms expected Thursday Friday
Shreveport Times
damaging winds and possibly tornadoes. “So called super cell thunderstorms slammed northwest Louisiana about 6 p. today leading to several tornado sightings including ones spotted just south of Benton in Bossier Parish in DeSoto Parish and near Center in Shelby County Texas. No injuries were reported. Nine Shreveport Fire Department units were dispatched to the Henry C.
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Tornado warnings to convey danger more urgently
The Tennessean
Verbiage is suggestedThe report suggests general phrases that might be used but doesn’t set out a new script for warnings. Strongly worded warnings have been used to make people take past emergencies more seriously Buchanan said. As Hurricane Ike barreled down on Texas last September the agency warned Galveston residents to take cover “or face certain death. “The warnings should sound dire Vanderbilt’s English said. “You want to capture the attention of the listener. I’m not sure the way they do things now always captures that attention. ” But even the most serious of warnings may fall on deaf ears if the alerts are sounded too frequently he said.
Disaster: Homestead Fla. hit by foreclosures
The Associated Press
hit by foreclosuresBy TAMARA LUSH – 14 hours ago HMESTEAD Fla. (AP) — Seventeen years after Hurricane Andrew leveled much of southern Miami-Dade County a different kind of storm is devastating households here: foreclosures. In certain ZIP codes in places like Homestead and Florida City around 25 percent of the homes are in one stage of foreclosure or another. Countless others were built by developers and sit vacant in ghostly subdivisions with not a buyer in sight. In the days after Andrew then-Dade County Emergency Management Director Kate Hale famously said on national TV: “Where the hell is the cavalry on this one?”The same could be asked now in this new disaster. People in south Miami-Dade — just like people in foreclosure-strewn cities across the nation — are wondering: How did we get here?And what’s next?___UNDERWATER AND ANGRYHere’s what Jose Reina thought in 2006 when he bought the two-story 3-bedroom 2.