Hurricanes

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Judge Says Government Responsible For Hurricane Katrina

E.G RADIO ONLINE (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009

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...

Blame El Nino for 2009 tropical season (Part 1)

Gulf Coast Hurricane Tracker (Free subscription) | yesterday

This year has been a rather unusual year in the tropics from what I was expecting. Hurricane in the Atlantic peaked in 2004 - 05 and while activity has been fairly high in the years since, there have been very few landfalling storms with gustav and Ike being major exceptions. 2009 was expected to be an average to slightly above average year with as many as 14 named storms. Before the season began the...

Al Gore does it again...

GayandRight (Free subscription) | yesterday

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...

Tropico & Tropico Paradise Island

SEO Blog and Entertainmet Blogger (Free subscription) | yesterday

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...

20th November - Today's News

Weather & Earth Science News (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009

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...

Court blames Army Corps for Katrina floods

The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009

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...

After Katrina: houses are still empty, but the Big Easy weathers the latest storm

Spectator - The Magazine (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009

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...

Katrina flooding blamed on 'monumental negligence'

CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009

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.

Katrina ruling could bring new deluge of lawsuits

Examiner (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009

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.

Katrina ruling could bring new deluge of lawsuits - The Associated Press

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...

Eurex launches new hurricane futures for 2010

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...

Al Gore’s Photoshop Work Violates Physical Laws

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....

Government is almost never the solution, but always the problem

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...

First MRGO Hurricane Katrina Flood Trial A Big Win For Plaintiffs

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, [...]

Hurricane Katrina And The Impact On Real Estate Prices

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...