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PSC: Don't bury all power lines
Louisville :: KY :: USA | 3 days ago
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But, the PSC said, electric utilities should consider using stronger lines and placing poles closer together in some areas; cell phone companies should look to generators to keep their towers operating; and residents should be better prepared to face...
Tags: Kentucky Public Service Commission, wind storms, Louisville, Atlantic hurricane season, Hurricane Ike, Ice storm, Disaster Accident, Electric power, Storm, Failure, Power outage
State school abuse case postponed; state's Ike plan rejected
Odessa :: TX :: USA | 4 days ago
Credibility State school abuse trial delayed A former state juvenile jail official won't face trial in a sexual abuse case until April. State District Judge Jay Gibson this week postponed the trial of former West Texas State School administrator Ray Edward Brookins...
Tags: Texas Digest State, West Texas, Texas Youth Commission, abuse case, school abuse, Edward Brookins, plan rejected, Odessa, Texas hurricanes, Atlantic hurricane season, Hurricane Ike, Galveston Texas, Greater Houston, Ward County Texas, Galveston County Texas, Social Issues
Ike victims claim pressure to leave trailers
Galveston :: TX :: USA | 4 days ago
Credibility Alida and Tom Duggan are fighting contractors, their insurance company and the bank in a struggle to rebuild their home in Bayou Vista, destroyed by Hurricane Ike. “Our life has been a nightmare in hell the last year,” Alida Duggan said. The trailer in...
Tags: FEMA, Galveston County, fema caseworkers, fema trailers, trailers resident, housing programs, High Island, temporary housing, ike victims, Yvonne VanZandt, Galveston, Hurricane Katrina, Trailer park, Caseworker, Disaster Accident, Federal Emergency Management Agency, FEMA trailer, Hurricane Ike
Hundreds ticketed for trespassing on Texas City Dike
Texas City :: TX :: USA | 5 days ago
Credibility Nearly 400 tickets have been issued to people who can't seem to stay away from a Hurricane Ike-damaged dike in Texas City. The 5-mile-long fishing pier is closed over safety concerns since the September 2008 storm. Repairs are expected to be done by next...
Tags: Texas City, Atlantic hurricane season, Hurricane Ike, Stanton, Texas City Texas, Pasadena Texas, Greater Houston, Galveston County Texas, Harris County Texas, Disaster Accident
Ice storm, wind storm cost more than $1.2 billion
Frankfort :: KY :: USA | 5 days ago
Credibility January�s ice storm and the wind storm a few months earlier did more than $1.2 billion in damage in Kentucky, the Public Service Commission says in a new report. The PSC acknowleges its figure doesn�t cover all the costs of the two storms that left hundreds...
Tags: ice storms, Kentucky Public Service Commission, winds storms, Frankfort, Ice storm, Types of insurance, Storm, Insurance, Disaster Accident, Weather, Environment, Atlantic hurricane season, Texas hurricanes, Hurricane Ike, Power outage
Small business: They still answer the call
Houston :: AK :: USA | 8 days ago
Credibility At the height of Hurricane Ike last September, while most of Houston struggled with downed power lines and blank computer screens, one company says it was so well connected it handled overflow calls for the American Red Cross. Rite Response, which has...
Tags: Vonda Tackett, Rite Response, called centers, Houston, Business Finance, Telephony, Call centre, Hurricane Ike
Q&A: The lady behind Three Brothers
Warsaw :: NY :: USA | 8 days ago
Credibility Janice Jucker knows all about the domestic arts. The San Antonio native's career ranges from lobby manager and hospitality expert at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York to the manager of a contract sewing factory in Houston. And now, she's the president...
Tags: Sigmund Jucker, Greater Houston Chapter, breast cancer, Janice Jucker, hurricane ike, Warsaw, Baking, Bread, Baker
Billion-dollar blow shook us a year ago
Wilmington :: OH :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility Vehicle owners filed 20,000 claims for damage after the remnants of Hurricane Ike roared through Ohio a year ago today. The driver of this truck escaped injury. A mighty wind pummeled Ohio and several other states a year ago today. The remnants of Hurricane...
Tags: Hurricane Ike, Ohio, Wilmington
Labor of love restores widow's home damaged by Ike
Galveston :: TX :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility Leonor Rodriguez beamed Sunday as she got her first look at the interior of her home, rebuilt by volunteers and donations a year after it was severely damaged by Hurricane Ike. “I couldn't believe it,” said Rodriguez, 79, who raised seven children in...
Tags: Texas, hurricane ike, Galveston
Insurance regulators say windstorm group unfair
Austin :: TX :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility State insurance regulators have accused the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association of deceptive and unfair practices in an enforcement complaint that seeks penalties. The association and the Texas Department of Insurance have clashed for at least a month...
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