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Near-disaster in La. raises questions about evacuations – USA Today Tangipahoa, La. narrowed avoided major catastrophe during Hurricane Isaac after reports flooded in that the Percy Quin Dam was close to breaching from rainfall overburdening Tangipahoa Lake. Concern over the dam prompted Tangipahoa’s parish president to call a mandatory evacuation for half of the parish’s […]
Hurricane Isaac Drenches Gulf Coast and High Water Cuts Off Many – N.Y. Times The effects of Category 1 Hurricane Isaac surprised many residents in the Gulf Wednesday, including the Biloxi, Miss. mayor, who later admitted he wished he had called for a mandatory evacuation before the storm. Plaquemines Parish, La., Â the hardest hit in […]
Hurricane Isaac first test of $14 billion flood defense system – New Orleans Times-Picayune Hurricane Isaac made landfall early Wednesday as a Category 1 storm in Plaquemines Parish, La., testing levee systems and causing flooding and widespread power outages. The Army Corps of Engineers is closely monitoring the improved $14 billion flood barrier system as the […]
Opinion: Should US insist UN solve Haiti’s cholera disaster? – McClatchy / Tribune The Center for Economic and Policy Research is joining the call for the United Nations to take responsibility for the cholera epidemic that was caused by UN peacekeepers during the international response to the deadly Haiti earthquake. “This is gross negligence that would […]
Photo by U.S. Geological SurveyThe world’s governments and relief organizations are responding to a 7.0 (7.3) earthquake, with multiple aftershocks, that struck Port-au-Prince, Haiti, just before nightfall yesterday.  CNN, which broadcast coverage of the disaster through the night, has early photos of the earthquake’s impacts.Poverty, weak infrastructure and few resources will pose challenges for Haiti’s recovery. However, some international relief […]
With temperatures hovering around 20 degrees, U.S. Airways Flight 1549 took off this afternoon from New York’s LaGuardia Airport.  Minutes later, the Airbus carrying 155 people crashed into the Hudson river near the Lincoln Tunnel. A flock of birds, possibly, flew into the jet’s engines and caused them to fail.  Thanks to a stellar response by the pilot, emergency […]
A week-long search has been going on in Shenandoah National Park for a missing man.NBC 29 TV, “Search for missing man expands,” (Oct. 5, 2008); Charlottesville Daily Progress, “Search for Staunton man continues,” (Oct. 5, 2008). The Appalachian Search & Rescue Conference (ASRC) has been providing volunteers to assist local police and the National Park […]
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