Tornado dances into SE
The News Review:
- Tornado dances into SE
- Tropical Storm Blanca forms off Mexico
- Additional Communities Receive Money for Rebuilding Efforts After …
- The 2009 Hurricane Season so far
- FEMA to help tornado flood victims
- Used tools to help repair hurricane damage in Cuba
- THAT REMINDS ME: Small tornado left trail of damage 25 years ago
Tornado dances into SE
KRQE
Shortly before 6 p. the National Weather Service issued a tornado warning based on radar indications and a spotter’s report for rural parts of eastern Lincoln County and western Chaves County. KRQE News 13 reporter Ian Schwartz recorded the tornado on the ground about 40 miles west of Roswell and also photographed a funnel cloud.
Tropical Storm Blanca forms off Mexico
The Associated Press
Blanca was located about 410 miles south of the southern tip of Baja California and was moving to the west-northwest at around 10 mph. Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Miami expect it to continue in that general direction away from land for the next couple of days. The storm’s maximum winds were near 45 mph and some strengthening was expected in the next 24 hours. After that Blanca is forecast to move into colder waters that should sap its energy. Copyright © 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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Additional Communities Receive Money for Rebuilding Efforts After …
KCRG
Dunkerton and Fairbank will each receive $50000 for rebuilding efforts. The money from the Rebuild Iowa ffice is part of one and a half million dollars awarded to seven communities. The tornado which destroyed homes near Dunkerton killed nine people in Parkersburg and New Hartford.
The 2009 Hurricane Season so far
ABC Action News
Six of these are expected to become hurricanes with two becoming major hurricanes with winds of 111 mph or more. As of July 6 no Tropical Storms have developed in the Atlantic. Forecasters monitored a tropical wave that had the potential to develop into a tropical storm but winds kept the wave at bay bringing severe weather to the Tampa Bay area instead. Meanwhile the Pacific has seen two named tropical storms with one becoming a hurricane.
FEMA to help tornado flood victims
Missourinet.com
Dennis Read with the Federal Emergency Management Agency says disaster recovery centers are being set up in several counties to assist victims of storms that rolled through the state May 8 through 16. Read says FEMA can offer small business loans assistance recouping losses insurance doesn’t cover unemployment and more. Read says residents who can’t make it to the disaster recovery centers can apply online or by phone as well. Counties affected are: Adair Barry Barton Bolligner Cape Girardeau Christian Dade Dallas Dent Douglas Greene Howell Iron Jasper Jefferson Laclede Lawrence Madison Newton zark Polk Reynolds Ripley St.
Used tools to help repair hurricane damage in Cuba
Brattleboro Reformer
outside the Dianich Gallery behind the Robert H. Gibson River Garden the Vermont-Cuba Solidarity Group will be packing up used tools to send to Cuban carpenters craftspeople and handymen. The tools will be used to help repair damage from Hurricane Paloma which struck the island nation last year. Donated tools should be of good quality but can be in need of some simple repairs said Dan MacArthur who with Judy Greenberg and Francie Marbury have coordinated the tool collection. Some of the tools that could be useful include hammers screw drivers pliers hand saws power tools such as circular saws and drills hand saws and pruning tools files and sharpening stones small electrical and plumbing tools wire cutters and pipe wrenches. “We have gotten the most wonderful eclectic bunch of stuff donated” said MacArthur. Recently he had to turn down a wood lathe because it was too heavy.
THAT REMINDS ME: Small tornado left trail of damage 25 years ago
Grand Forks Herald
Alexander Griggs founder of Grand Forks. The month of July was lively 25 years ago. What may have been a small tornado moved through northern Grand Forks on July 12 1984. It left a trail of damage in a four block area. Trees and branches were down along Hamline and Cambridge Streets. And a wall 145 feet long and 8 inches thick that was supported by wooden beams also went down. Leroy Sondrol director of plant services at UND said crews were working to get tennis courts back in shape.