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E.G RADIO ONLINE (Free subscription) | yesterday
Check out this very interesting story I found: There is no doubt that Hurricane Katrina was a storm of colossal proportions, a rarity even in the current climate of super-charged storm fronts, but it is the ruling of a judge that has given a target for all of those affected my the damage left in its wake. In a monumental ruling, U.S. District Judge Stanwood R. Duval declared that the government, via...
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Market Pipeline (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Posted on Reuters by Sarah Hills: European derivatives exchange Eurex will this week launch contracts for hurricane futures on wind damage for the risk period of January to December 2010. Eurex, jointly operated by Deutsche Boerse ( DB1Gn.DE ) and SIX Swiss Exchange, was the first European exchange to offer hurricane futures in June 2009 [ID:nLG71891], but as yet has not traded any futures because...
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NewsInferno (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
A major Hurricane Katrina flooding trial ended with a win for plaintiffs yesterday, as a federal judge ruled that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ failure to properly maintain the Mississippi River Gulf Coast Outlet (known popularly as MRGO) was partly to blame for the flooding that followed the historic storm. Judge Stanwood R. Duval, [...]
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GayandRight (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
More errors in his new book... Former vice president Al Gore has always been one of the more divisive figures in the debate about manmade climate change. As one of the most visible people sounding the alarm on climate change, he is quick to come under fire. His new book “Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis” provides plenty of ammunition for global warming skeptics without them...
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SEO Blog and Entertainmet Blogger (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
Tropico & Tropico Paradise Island | Simulation | English | 1,01 GB Tropico is a construction and management simulation computer game The game sees the player taking the role of “El Presidente,”the ruler of an island in the Caribbean during the Cold War era from the 1950s onward. Tropico Paradise Island Features * A total of 12 or more new buildings. * More than 20 new scenarios, including...
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Weather & Earth Science News (Free subscription) | yesterday
All news reports concerning flooding in Britain and Ireland are in the entry below Mini tornadoes spotted on Humber As the Australian heatwave continues, temperature records fall and fire burn Mysteriously warm times in Antarctica - were previous interglacials 6c warmer there than they are today? SOFIA seeks secrets of planetary birth Army Corp of Engineers blamed for for Hurricane Katrine levee breaches...
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The Washington Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
NEW ORLEANS (AP) | A landmark court ruling blaming the Army Corps of Engineers' "monumental negligence" for some of the worst flooding from Hurricane Katrina could lead to a new deluge: billions of dollars in legal action from thousands of storm victims. The federal judge's harshly worded decision also served as vindication for residents of St. Bernard Parish and the Lower 9th Ward in New...
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Spectator - The Magazine (Free subscription) | yesterday
Tourists in New Orleans’ French Quarter and Garden District would be hard pressed to see Hurricane Katrina damage if they didn’t go looking for it. On a recent visit to attend a wedding between a Glaswegian brewer and a Louisiana law professor, I ate gumbo, swayed to jazz and paraded behind a brass band between the ceremony and the reception. Not so different from a wedding I attended...
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CBC.ca (Free subscription) | yesterday
A landmark court ruling blaming the Army Corps of Engineers' "monumental negligence" for some of the worst flooding from Hurricane Katrina could lead to a new deluge: billions of dollars in legal action from thousands of storm victims.
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Examiner (Free subscription) | yesterday
A landmark court ruling blaming the Army Corps of Engineers' "monumental negligence" for some of the worst flooding from Hurricane Katrina could lead to a new deluge: billions of dollars in legal action from thousands of storm victims.
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Google News - Top Stories (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
National Post Katrina ruling could bring new deluge of lawsuits The Associated Press NEW ORLEANS — A landmark court ruling blaming the Army Corps of Engineers' "monumental negligence" for some of the worst flooding from Hurricane Katrina could lead to a new deluge: billions of dollars in legal action from thousands of storm victims. ... New Orleans mayor hails Katrina ruling CNN Army...
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LinknZona (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Picture 1 is the book cover Picture 2 is the world before the picture was altered Picture 3 is Gore's Deception Al Gore has a new alarmist book out. Gore keeps harping on global warming causing hurricanes. The data show the opposite, no large hurricanes hit US since Katrina. Oh well, Gore and the truth are as strange to each other as dogs and cats are. Three satellite views of the earth are shown above....
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Campaign For Liberty Blog (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
By Gary Howard Today, AP is reporting the news of a judge's decision against the Army Corps of Engineers in a case assessing its culpability in the destruction that followed Hurricane Katrina in 2005. I will make my disclaimer here, I am a native of New Orleans just one year removed from my hometown when the storm hit. I saw my family and everyone I knew displaced and affected by the disaster, and...
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GREENBRIER VIRTUAL AVIATION (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
As you know Tropical Storm Ida (formerly Hurricane Ida) was stalled over the mid Atlantic states most of last week, and of course as fate would have it, that's when we were flying back to Lynchburg from Massachusetts We took off from Beverly into clear beautiful sky's knowing that conditions would soon change. I had originally filed for 16000' and we were still climbing when we turned over Boston....
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Climateer Investing (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Hey thanks for the Hat Tip! From FT Alphaville: EIA US oil inventory data released on Wednesday surprised many investors by reporting unexpectedly large draws in crude, distillates and gasoline stocks last week. While on the surface this came might have come across as bullish for the energy complex, one factor more than others probably accounted for the pickup in demand. Via Reuters: Tropical storm...
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neilsamsung | 16/09/2009
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina’s wide path of destruction, the real estate marke t will be affected perhaps in ways not fully understood or expected. If recent hurricane recovery history holds true there will be several good things to come out of all destruction. Let’s hope so as those who live in the Delta region have suffered immensely. In September 1989, a strong category 4 hurricane by the name...
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