Tornado outbreak for the South; More snow in the Northwest
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- Tornado outbreak for the South; More snow in the Northwest
- Live WWII Grenade Found in Texas Attic
- House committee approves hurricane insurance bill
- New storm barrage causes train collision in South
Tornado outbreak for the South; More snow in the Northwest
USA Today
Storms are expected to become more intense and widespread as the day progresses. The Storm Prediction Center has defined a moderate risk area for severe thunderstorms that includes western Tennessee most of Mississippi and Alabama parts of central and southern Georgia and northern Florida. Storms that are already firing along the Gulf Coast have prompted a.
Live WWII Grenade Found in Texas Attic
FXNews
Nobody was injured in Thursday’s incident. Johnson told the Galveston County Daily News that he bought the house in 1992. Johnson believes the grenade was in the attic since the more than half century-old house was built. He says the only access to that particular area was by removing the roof which was damaged during Hurricane Ike.
House committee approves hurricane insurance bill
MiamiHerald.com
comp –> TALLAHASSEE Fla. — With less than four full weeks left in the 2009 session lawmakers started moving legislation Friday aimed at reducing a multibillion dollar property insurance risk politicians have laid on Florida consumers and taxpayers. After running through more than a dozen amendments the Insurance Business and Financial Affairs Committee approved a bill to make the state-backed Citizens Property Insurance Corp. a last-resort insurer. The measure would also draw down the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund obligations by several billion dollars. “We’ve got a problem” Catastrophe Fund manager Jack Nicholson told the committee. “Solvency could be an issue.
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New storm barrage causes train collision in South
The Associated Press
(AP) — Another barrage of storms hit the southeast Thursday causing a collision between a passenger train and a tree and sending at least one person to the hospital after lightning struck a home. Flood warnings as well as tornado watches and warnings were in effect around the region. In south Mississippi an Amtrak train hit a tree the storm knocked onto the tracks south of McComb in Pike County injuring the conductor said Carlene Statham assistant director of Pike County Civil Defense. The train was headed from Chicago to New rleans with 71 passengers aboard when it hit the tree Amtrak spokesman Marc Magliari said. The only report of an injury was the conductor who complained of back pain. nly the engine lost contact with the tracks and the “the train is powered lit and heated” Magliari said.