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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) | 11/19/2009
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) | 11/19/2009
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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NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
You could call it progress in media bias. For years, liberal journalists have blamed Team Bush for the death of hundreds in Hurricane Katrina. The major media found that theme of fatal incompetence simply irresistible. Time’s Michael Grunwald, who has written in-depth articles and a book about the Army Corps of Engineers, is bringing the focus back to long-standing government policies over decades....
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Bossip (Free subscription) | yesterday
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 effected by the damage left in its wake. In a monumental ruling, U.S. District Judge [...]
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The Nation Blogs (Free subscription) | yesterday
Hurricane Katrina is often called a natural disaster, as if it was all nature's fault, not man's. The reality, of course, is that federal, state and local governments ignored warnings from scientists for years, both that climate change would lead to increased storm activity, and that destruction of wetlands outside of New Orleans had hurt the city's natural defenses against a storm surge. Calls for...
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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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Spectator - The Magazine (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
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...
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Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
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.
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LinknZona (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
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) | 11/19/2009
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) | 11/19/2009
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) | 11/19/2009
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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Market Wire (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
NEW ORLEANS, LA (MARKET WIRE) Levees.org, a New Orleans-based non-profit formed after Hurricane Katrina with a mission of raising awareness about the nation's levee systems, released today its second in a series of book reviews by its founder Sandy Rosenthal that address the metro New Orleans flooding of August 2005.
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Thanks, Katrina (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Could not find on the LOCAL news website, NOLA.com. Imagine that. found at Bloomberg dot com Hurricane Katrina Victims Win $719,698 From U.S. in First Trial A A A By Margaret Cronin Fisk and Leslie T. Snadowsky Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Hurricane Katrina victims were awarded $719,698 in damages by a judge in a lawsuit claiming a canal dredged by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from New Orleans to the...
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mamun2336 | 10/30/2009
Another typhoon in the northern Philippines really is something to be scared about, and Mirinae is expected to make landfall there in the mid-morning hours on Halloween, October 31. Mirinae will be the fourth major storm to hit the Philippines in one month bringing more rain to an already flood-weary region. NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite is already hard at work analyzing...
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guruagent | 09/28/2009
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tamilselvan1 | 09/27/2009
At least 51 people have died and at least 21 others are missing after torrential rains and subsequent flooding pummeled the Philippines on Saturday, the government said.
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