Archive for the ‘Disaster Accident’ Category
ATLANTA -- With the latest major storm set to make its presence felt in Metro Atlanta, Arborist Robert Driskill is expecting a busy week. p div class="alignleft" style="align:left; padding:10px;" ...
Hurricane Irene is barreling down on the U.S., a monster storm packing winds of more than 100 miles per hour as it batters the Bahamas. In the next few days, the storm could hit the Outer Banks of North Carolina, or even the Mid-Atlantic and New England states. p ...
MANHATTAN, Kan., Aug. 23, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Communities struck by disaster of any kind now can count on the CivicPlus Cyber Recovery Team, along with the company's suite of instant communication and emergency notification products, to help their local government officials and citizens respond to the crisis and move into recovery mode. ...
Glenn Beck has developed something of a phobia about citizens receiving government aid -- and a propensity for overlooking the fact that some of the folks he likes to portray as living in his idealized America are receiving it anyway. ...
"I was in an awful building," he said. "I realized we got lucky in those circumstances. ... I had no way of getting out of that building if it started to collapse," said von Bereghy, 43, who moved to Bainbridge Island in 1997. ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo., May 23, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- To aid customers and recovery efforts in the aftermath of Sunday's devastating tornado, Verizon Wireless is sending three temporary cell towers to provide emergency wireless calling capacity and coverage in and around Joplin, Mo. ...
KINSHASA ; A boat carrying dozens of people collided with another vessel in a channel on the Congo River, leaving at least 11 dead, according to a Democratic Republic of Congo radio report on Wednesday. ...
As the Mississippi reaches its high point in Memphis and attention turns to a time-consuming clean up, farmers downriver built homemade levees to protect their crops and engineers diverted water into a lake to ease the pressure on New Orleans levees. ...
President Obama will visit New York City tomorrow to honor those killed at Ground Zero on September 11, 2011, following the slaying of Osama bin Laden. Politico reports he invited former President George W. Bush and former New York City Mayor Rudolph Guiliani to join him. Mr. Bush has declined the invitation; Politico says there's ...
POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. Powerful storms that swept through the nation's midsection have pushed river levels to dangerous heights and are threatening to flood several towns in Missouri and elsewhere. ...