Memories of Ike weigh on Texas beach city’s summer
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- Memories of Ike weigh on Texas beach city’s summer
- Foreclosed homes could become hurricane shelters
- Hurricane READY!
- Hurricane relief? Maybe
- Hurricane-season forecast downgraded to normal
Memories of Ike weigh on Texas beach city’s summer
The Associated Press
LZAN – 7 hours ago GALVESTN Texas (AP) — Another hurricane season is the last thing Galveston wants to think about after last year’s devastation from Hurricane Ike. “Hurricane season got here a lot quicker than I thought it would. I’m still busy working on my own house trying to get back in there” said Steve LeBlanc manager of the island city 50 miles southeast of Houston. “But we are busy getting prepared for another season. “As the 2009 hurricane season began this week many of Galveston’s residents were still mired in repairs nearly nine months after the costliest disaster in Texas history came ashore with 110-mph winds and 12-foot storm surge on Sept.
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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Hurricane READY!
The Star-Ledger – NJ.com
orgAs the 2009 Hurricane Season approaches State Police Superintendent Colonel Rick Fuentes Director of the New Jersey ffice of Emergency Management (NJEM) advises all New Jersey residents to plan and prepare for potential tropical summer storms. The hurricane season usually.
Hurricane relief? Maybe
Dallas Morning News
Hurricane season is here. But the real test of this “fix” will come when Texas is hit by another Hurricane Ike or two. That’s when we’ll find out whether the ability to raise money through bonds industry assessments (and ultimately through consumer premiums) is going to work. Remember there’s no actual cash infusion into the fund just a promised new funding stream. nly then will we find out whether the state will have to go back to the rainy day fund for cash.
Hurricane-season forecast downgraded to normal
Philadelphia Inquirer
place_ad_here(“half”); Posted on Wed Jun. 3 2009 Hurricane-season forecast downgraded to normal By Anthony R. WoodInquirer Staff Writer The Gulf and Atlantic Coasts – and the nation’s taxpayers – might be getting a break this hurricane season. The updated forecast from the team at Colorado State University released yesterday calls for an unexceptional season with hurricane activity near normal even though the Atlantic Basin remains in an active hurricane era. In issuing their outlook for the season that began Monday and continues through Nov.