Shell to announce ‘09 hurricane updates on Twitter
The News Review:
- Shell to announce ‘09 hurricane updates on Twitter
- ffshore industry improves hurricane readiness
- Repair work begins on hurricane levee
- Tornado’s a rarity on the Western Slope
- Tornado hunters roam the Plains
- Hurricane season start good reminder to prepare for unexpected
Shell to announce ‘09 hurricane updates on Twitter
Reuters
L) said Wednesday it will use instant messaging system Twitter to announce hurricane updates during the 2009 storm season. The innovation is aimed at the news media in an effort to keep journalists.
ffshore industry improves hurricane readiness
Houston Chronicle
• Platforms destroyed: 60 • Platforms damaged: 124 • Number of • platforms • in Gulf: 3800 • Production still shut in: 58000 barrels per day of oil 590 million cubic feet per day of natural gas Source: U. Minerals Management Service Less than two weeks from the start of the 2009 Atlantic hurricane season the offshore oil and gas industry is still addressing weaknesses exposed by Ike Gustav and other hurricanes that ripped through the Gulf of Mexico in recent years. But an improved record in 2008 suggests the industry has made progress since 2005 when Hurricanes Rita and Katrina did extensive damage to offshore facilities and is better positioned to weather major storms than in the past the federal agency that regulates the industry said Tuesday. “I would characterize this year’s preparations as building on improvements and lessons learned from the 2005 and 2008 seasons” Lars Herbst director of the U. Minerals Management Service’s Gulf of Mexico region said during a conference call with journalists.
Repair work begins on hurricane levee
Galveston County Daily News
AuldsThe Daily NewsPublished May 20 2009TEXAS CITY Work is under way to fix about $2 million of damage Hurricane Ike caused to the Galveston Bay section of the Texas City-La Marque hurricane levee. While crews hired by the U. Army Corps of Engineers will replace the rock and earth washed away by the storm some of the levee’s more attractive features must be removed. About 100 trees that had lined the part of the levee that rings Texas City near the dike and Bay Street Park have to go federal officials told the city.
Tornado’s a rarity on the Western Slope
KJCT8.com
Garfield north of I-70. It spawned from a small isolated thunderstorm that rolled off the high country that was for a short period of time a severe storm prior to tornadogenesis. The twister fit the mold of most tornados of the Western Slope in the fact that is was a small EF 0 on the enhanced Fujita scale and short lived in fact as quickly as it spawned it was gone. It happened so quickly and was so small a warning was not issued and the NWS actually had to look back and examine radar data to confirm such a sighting.
Tornado hunters roam the Plains
USA Today
The tornado hunters are part of VRTEX2 the largest-ever research project aimed at finding out more about what causes these killer storms — and how to give people earlier and more accurate warnings says Karen Kosiba a senior research meteorologist with the Center for Severe Weather Research in. n average about 1000 tornadoes form in the.
Hurricane season start good reminder to prepare for unexpected
AgNews
edu CLLEGE STATIN The official beginning of the 2009 hurricane season on June 1 should serve as a reminder for Texans and others to make preparations to protect themselves their families and their property said a Texas AgriLife Extension Service expert. “While hurricanes have a season most disasters don’t” said Janie Harris housing and environment specialist for AgriLife Extension. “Still the start of hurricane season is a good time to remind people to take steps to prepare themselves for the unexpected. “Initial forecasts predict an “average” hurricane season with about 10 named storms six of which are expected to develop into hurricanes. Additionally the 2009 forecast from the Weather Research Center suggests a 40 percent chance of a tropical storm or hurricane making landfall in Texas this year.
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