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Rare Illness And Steelers Ryan Clark
Monday night game Steelers and Broncos will have to played without Ryan Clark. Clark fell ill in a prior game at the location of the Denver Broncos. He was diagnosed as having the rare Sickle - Cell Disease. Clark was hospitalized and...
Tags: steelers, ike, taylor, broncos, monday night football
Tracking Hurricanes
As a child living on the eastern coast of the United States on the Atlantic Ocean, I remember each year my parents would pick up the annual hurricane map that was given away freely at many local businesses. The map was large - it covered most of...
Tags: hurricanes, Katrina, Camile, Donna, Rita, David, Andrew, Ike
Six months after Ike, thousands unable to return home
Galveston :: TX :: USA | 8 months ago
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The destruction wrought by Hurricane Ike is as visible as the increasing signs of recovery, but unseen are the thousands driven from their homes who so far are unable to return. Nearly 16,000 families in the Galveston-Houston area are living in temporary...
Tags: hurricane ike, hurricane, galveston, ike, recovery, storm, coast, after, 000
NBC 2 Houston (KPRC): Regents Want To Keep UTMB In Galveston
Galveston :: TX :: USA | 8 months ago
Credibility The proposal outlines a $1 billion plan over the next decade to rebuild the trauma center and create about 500 patient beds on the island. Funding would come from a combination of federal, state, and philanthropic funds...Rep. Craig Eiland, who spearheaded...
Tags: hurricane ike, ike
Ike wreck rips hull of oil tanker, but Gulf spared from slick
Galveston :: TX :: USA | 8 months ago
Credibility Wider than a football field and almost two-thirds as long, Ensco 74 — a jackup oil rig positioned off the Louisiana coast — would seem a hard thing to lose. But, knocked off its moorings by Hurricane Ike’s surging tide, lost it was...The 159,000-ton Norwegian...
Sky-high price to bury power lines
Houston :: TX :: USA | 8 months ago
Credibility Widespread hardening of the power grid along the Gulf Coast is too expensive a solution to prevent another blanket blackout like Houston experienced in the weeks following Hurricane Ike, according to a report commissioned by the state’s Public Utility...
Economy forces Waverly factory to close for 30 days
Waverly :: MI :: USA | 8 months ago
Credibility A Waverly factory that manufactures heavy construction equipment and cranes will close from the middle of March through the middle of April, said Ike Ackerman, Waverly mayor. Terex Corporation told city officials today that the worsening national economic...
Tags: ike
Oman crude rises after Saudi Arabia hikes prices
Singapore :: Singapore | 9 months ago
Credibility Cargoes of Oman for loading in April were offered at a discount of 50 cents (Dh1.84) a barrel to benchmark Dubai, up from a discount of $1 a barrel last month, said three traders who participate in the market. Oman crude was at a premium of 18 cents a...
Story of the Song - River Deep, Mountain High, Ike & Tina Turner (1966)
London :: United Kingdom | 10 months ago
Credibility Ike and Tina Turner's Archive Series, a six-CD round-up of studio takes and alternative cuts, goes behind the wall of sound on one of the pair's enduring classics. Written in the spring of 1966, "River Deep, Mountain High" originated from the pen of...
Tags: Tina Turner, ike, r&b
Buried box yields Texas treasures after hurricane
Galveston :: TX :: USA | 10 months ago
Credibility A contractor helping clear debris from Hurricane Ike is looking for the owner of an ammunition box he found buried in sand that contained keepsakes, including an 1863 Confederate $50 bill, war medals and diamond earrings. The green steel Army ammunition...
Tags: treasure, galveston, hurricane ike, ike, Galveston Island
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