Foreclosed homes could become hurricane shelters
The News Review:
- Foreclosed homes could become hurricane shelters
- Planning the ‘Ike Dike’ Defense
- A muted hurricane season this year?
- Red Cross in Dallas does “what if” tornado film
Foreclosed homes could become hurricane shelters
The Associated Press
The proposal would keep people close to their homes and communities instead of scattering them around the country which happened when Hurricane Katrina devastated New rleans nearly four years ago. Thousands never returned. But the idea is still in its infancy and many questions remain unanswered including whether the banks that own the foreclosed homes would agree to such a plan. “It makes all the sense in the world” said Jack McCabe a South Florida real estate analyst who has watched tens of thousands of homes go into foreclosure.
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Planning the ‘Ike Dike’ Defense
Wall Street Journal
Dubbed the “Ike Dike” after the hurricane that ravaged the Houston area in September the 17-foot-high wall would straddle the narrow entrance to Galveston Bay with 1000-foot-long floodgates allowing access to the city’s port in good weather but swinging shut when a storm approached to block floodwaters. Most damage from hurricanes is usually caused by floodwaters.
A muted hurricane season this year?
Kansas.com
Why does this matter in landlocked Kansas? Because the remnants of hurricanes and tropical cyclones can reach the Sunflower State depending on where they come ashore. The record-setting rain that fell on Wichita last September came from what was left of Hurricane Lowell a Pacific hurricane. Because of prevailing jet stream patterns the leftovers of Pacific hurricanes and tropical storms reach Kansas more often than named storms that come up through the Gulf of Mexico. ther Pacific hurricanes whose remnants doused Kansas were Kiko in 1989 Paine in 1986 and Waldo in 1985.
Red Cross in Dallas does “what if” tornado film
Houston Chronicle
The 18-minute movie called “F5″ refers to the designation for the most powerful tornadoes. The film uses fictional characters to show how lives change and what the community can do to help during tornado disasters. The film premieres Thursday night at the Studio Movie Grill in Dallas then will be posted on the Internet. Red Cross spokeswoman Anita Foster said Wednesday that volunteers produced the film with help of the Southwest Community of Motion Picture Artists.