Hurricane Bay to celebrate renovation
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- Hurricane Bay to celebrate renovation
- Forecaster warns Treasure Coast residents to be ready for …
- Ike proves importance of hurricane preparedness
- Isolated T-Storms Bring Tornado Warnings
- Prepare for hurricane
- BRIAN DICKERSN Property tax saga: A likely story
- Pryor praises FEMA over tornado response
Hurricane Bay to celebrate renovation
Bizjournals.com
The relaunch of the club on West Bell Road marks completion of an extensive months-long renovation. The 10000-square-foot tropical-themed club has a new bar VIP area upgraded light and sound systems a new cocktail menu and a lineup of live DJs. Now spinning the tracks weekly at Hurricane Bay is DJ Soulman. Soulman arrives in Phoenix from Las Vegas where he rocked Wasted Space inside the Hard Rock Hotel.
Forecaster warns Treasure Coast residents to be ready for …
TCPalm
Does that mean an “average” amount of angst as we track the “cone of possibility” across the Atlantic?An “average” number of just-missed-us sighs of relief?An “average” number of Florida Power & Light Co. trucks driving past as we wait for power to come back?fficially an “average” hurricane season from June through November has 11 named tropical storms including six hurricanes with two becoming major (category 3-5) hurricanes. Prognosticators ranging from the National ceanic and Atmospheric Administration to Colorado State University’s William Gray and Philip Klotzbach to Storm Tropical Risk in London are predicting anywhere from seven to 14 tropical storms this season with from four to eight of them becoming hurricanes and from one to three of them growing to major hurricanes Category 3 to Category 5. “The differences in the numbers reflect the different techniques used in making the forecasts” said Gerry Bell lead seasonal hurricane forecaster at NAA’s Climate Prediction Center. “Some use statistics some use computer models. We use both which I think gives us a much better ability to synthesize data.
Ike proves importance of hurricane preparedness
Jacksonville Daily Progress
comFollowing a 2008 hurricane season whose effects devastated the Gulf Coast in addition to reaching all the way to Cherokee County in addition to devastating the Gulf Coast the wisdom of being prepared for the worst can’t be overstated. Hurricane season officially begins June 1 and runs through Nov. 30 and the Texas Governor’s Division of Emergency Management has named this week — May 24-30 — as Hurricane Preparedness Week. Texans are encouraged to use this week as an opportunity to prepare an emergency supply kit devise an evacuation plan and learn how to minimize their chances of catastrophic loss or death. Hurricanes are nature’s most powerful storm and the greatest dangers presented by a hurricane to an in-land community like Jacksonville are high winds tornadoes and heavy rains.
Isolated T-Storms Bring Tornado Warnings
WHItv.com
The tornado warning has now expired but the flash flood warning is still in effect for far northeastern Mercer county. Wednesday May 27 2009.
Prepare for hurricane
WALA-TV FX10
write(ads[tile]); Prepare for hurricane seasonUpdated: Wednesday 27 May 2009 1:06 PM CDTPublished : Wednesday 27 May 2009 1:06 PM CDTPENSACLA Fla. – The month of June marks the beginning of hurricane season. In living on the Gulf Coast your family should be prepared in the case a hurricane should strike. “Having a plan for hurricane season is a must this time of year” said Norman Wright president and CE of your BBB serving northwest Florida. “You always want to be prepared. The last thing you want to do is wait until the last minute to make a plan for your family.
BRIAN DICKERSN Property tax saga: A likely story
Detroit Free Press
” Watson purchased her own two-story Tudor for $40000 in 1990 but noted that the city property assessor’s office accurately valued it at just $1656. “It’s a pretty house” the councilwoman conceded. “But how much can any property be worth in a city where official corruption is universally acknowledged to be rampant?”She said her own cursory inspection of property records revealed that many homes on her street had been assessed for 25 to 50 times their actual value and speculated that many of those assessments had never been adjusted to reflect the catastrophic damage inflicted by “the Great Tornado of nineteen-or two-thousand-something-or-other which we all remember so well. ”Watson conceded that city officials who were at the grocery store or in the shower might have missed the historic storm and faulted the media for failing to record its awful devastation. Still she said it was the responsibility of city officials to take note of a natural disaster she said had reduced many homes on her street to vacant lots even if most homeowners had overlooked any damage themselves. Reminded that her own home had been privately appraised for $60000 as recently as 2002 Watson rejoined that any comparison between that appraisal and the official valuation listed in city records was “apples and oranges. ” “That $60000 assessment was for a mortgage” she explained.
Pryor praises FEMA over tornado response
Arkansas Democrat Gazette
Mark Pryor told Mena officials Tuesday he wanted to know about any problems with the federal government’s response to the April 9 tornado that destroyed much of the city. heard few complaints during his visit to the western Arkansas city Tuesday. “FEMA’s been great” Mayor George McKee said. He and other city officials in the Polk County town of about 5700 offered Pryor nothing but praise for the Federal Emergency Management Agency which was much-criticized after Hurricane Katrina nearly four years ago.
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