Governor declares state of emergency; reports of ice, flood damage everywhere

Iceberries photographed this morning by Kelly. But will Patrick show up on TV in a cardigan? ... : I suppose rain is 100% better than ice rain. but still. Winter coat now has 2 pounds of water ... to get to work to find out the office was closed. Also see: The T is not the Postal Service, so forget [more...]

Date: 2008-12-12 23:15:44

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Making Basement Waterproofing A Priority

by Cooper Waldstein If you are a homeowner, then it is your responsibility to make sure that you protect your investment by maintaining and ... thousands of dollars in water damage repair. Did you know that most basement waterproofing calls are made after a home has already had a flood? Don’t think that properly waterproofing your basement [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 11:43:58

After Ike: The Good News and The Bad

Look carefully at this picture. Although residents of Galveston are never more than 1 mile from the water, ... by now. Even with ventilation and moisture removal methods, mold damage remains a risk ... refrigerators, for removal. *Everything flooded must be removed.......plaster, drywall, studs (if soaked [more...]

Date: 2008-09-23 05:27:00

Saving Electronic Devices With Water Damage Repair

One common accident that could happen to your electronic devices is when it gets into contact with any form of liquid ... . A lot can happen that could cause them to get wet; from spilled water, juice or milk to accidents in the bathtub, pool or beach and the worse is flooding inside the home. Most of ... [more...]

Date: 2008-12-28 21:00:04

Infrastructure 2

Infrastructure - The Next Big Deal? #1 Reuters carries a report on an infrastrucutre concern: ... required by a growing population, nor the cost to repair damage inflicted by the recent Midwest floods ... , washed-out bridges, overwhelmed dams, failed levees, broken sewage systems, stunted crops and water [more...]

Date: 2008-07-02 12:05:20

Is Your Home In Need Of Basement Waterproofing?

by Cooper Waldstein If your area of the country experiences any significant amount of rainfall every year, ... thousands of dollars in water damage repair. Did you know that most basement waterproofing calls are made after a home has already had a flood? Don’t think that properly waterproofing your basement [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 22:27:58

Guyana: Flooding Controversy

Guyana has been experiencing severe bouts of flooding recently, causing damage to crops and livestock and outrage among bloggers ... to do instead of LIMING ON FACEBOOK? Like helping people bailing out water from their houses [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 14:23:25

Braley and Loebsack Go To Bat for Broken Railroad Bridges

Iowa Congressmen Bruce Braley and Dave Loebsack, both Democrats representing flood-ravaged eastern Iowa, are requesting federal support for state railroad bridges that were destroyed by flood waters ... and large throughout our state, and we must act quickly to repair the rail infrastructure damaged [more...]

Date: 2008-06-26 19:21:35

10 Flooded Basement Prevention Steps

Flooded basement can cost you thousands of dollars in cleanup and repair. If the collected water in your basement results in infestation of mold, then expect bigger costs. Keeping water damage from happening will help you avoid paying thousands of dollars on cleanup [more...]

Date: 2009-01-04 04:00:08

Water, water, everywhere - except Judge Senter’s Order

After reading Judge Senter’s latest Order in a Katrina claims dispute, ... are that Defendant failed to conduct an adequate investigation of damage to his home caused by Hurricane Katrina ... of the mantra that Plaintiff accepted full benefits under his flood policy does not foreclose damage [more...]

Date: 2008-12-05 19:54:44

DNR faces $10 million in losses

This year’s flooding and tornadoes may cause the Iowa Department of Natural Resources to cut jobs and services due to $10 million in lost revenue. The Associated Press reports that the agency saw 33 of its 48 parks damaged by wind and water ... the state might not be able to afford regular park cleanup, might have to cut 100 summer positions [more...]

Date: 2008-11-24 17:18:44

Icy roads have Seattle schools starting two hours late today & it's getting colder...

Holy ice pops it's cold out there!Due to concerns about hazardous road conditions, all Seattle Public Schools will start two hours late today, Monday, ... and huge repair bills for flood damage."And, he said, while your leak is being repaired, at your own ... we had in 1990," said Joe Mickelson, SPU's director of water operations. In 1990, Mickelson said [more...]

Date: 2008-12-15 14:40:00

Open Thread for Night Owls, Early Birds & Ex-Pats

Michelle Hunter and Richard Rainey at The Times-Picayune write: Compared to Katrina, ... but hardly battered Monday, the damage mostly limited to downed utility wires, toppled trees and fallen limbs. Jefferson Parish officials logged no reports of water in houses, and even notoriously flood [more...]

Date: 2008-09-02 05:13:05

Ithaca swamped

-after sluice door breaks Ithaca residents  suffered major losses when a sluice door broke away and flooded the community yesterday, ... residents were under inches of water following the high tide. Within hours of the swamping the damage ... village slept unawares. Officials in the region rushed to the area to oversee repair works being [more...]

Date: 2008-12-17 09:45:33

Cleaning Up Sewage After A Flood

Cleaning Up Sewage After A Flood When your home is flooded by a natural disaster, there are likely to be all types of things in the waters. How will you clean it up what it leaves behind? ¶ Posted 18 November 2008 † Aydan Corkern § Home ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cleaning, damage, Home, house, mold, restoration, sewage, water [more...]

Date: 2008-11-18 20:45:21

Agriculture production still paralyzed after flood

VietNamNet Bridge – Vegetables and other crops have been lost because of the flood ... No. 21, were seen 30-50 cm under water on November 9. From a distance, one would only see a vast sea ... would damage the produce. Yen decided to bring vegetables to sell in the inner city [more...]

Date: 2008-11-11 22:25:23

Worst Bush Moments #3: Strumming While New Orleans Flooded

As the 9th Street Levee was gushing forth a torrent of water, water that was filling up New Orleans like a soup bowl, our president was doing this: ... , but even minor hurricanes do tens of millions of dollars in damage, and a hurricane of Katrina’s size ... , and that the damage might not be catastrophic. But it was cautious optimism, optimism that would [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 00:25:13

Up to Your Ankles in Water? Call Water Restoration 911

Not long after I bought this house, I went downstairs after a bath to find that my kitchen was flooded ... on your furniture; it can eventually cause mold to grow, including the toxic type. To minimize the damage ... smell wasn't a lot worse. If you have ever had a pipe burst, seen your house flood during a storm [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 20:40:02

Louisiana sees flooding

(CNN) — Louisiana — for once spared a direct hit by a Gulf Coast hurricane — still saw its share of damage Friday as areas still soaked from ... s Office of Coastal Protection and Restoration said. In Plaquemines Parish, hard-hit by Hurricane ... . Floodgates throughout New Orleans were closed and officials reported water levels rising in Lake [more...]

Date: 2008-09-12 19:55:33

Leave

If every one of you read back all my previous posts especially about my part-time job, I have edited about where am I working now… for some reasons of my own safety, I have to do so…. Honestly speaking, I have being feeling so unsafe since a few days ago… I think every one should know I felt awkward this few days… people might say this is only my [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 14:37:08

Who do you trust to pick the next Treasury Secretary?

As we digest the news that John McCain, who has missed more votes in Congress over the last two years than any other Senator, is suspending his campaign and wants to duck Friday's debate, in order to offer his help crafting a bailout plan, now is as good a time as any to mull over what could be one of the first significant early tests for the [more...]

Date: 2008-09-24 23:20:38

Monckton’s mocking reply to an email from a “Thermista” in the Canadian Civil Service

Lord Monckton read classics at Cambridge so he enjoys his Latin and Greek but I doubt that “Thermista” will replace “Warmist” any time soon. There may be some American readers who do not recognize the salutation “Sir Humphrey” in the letter so maybe I should note that it is an allusion to a dyed-in-the-wool bureaucrat in the BBC comedy “Yes [more...]

Date: 2008-09-30 14:05:20

New England Climate Change: More Rain on Snow Will Challenge Stormwater Management

Stormwater modeling calculations, such as those found in the Kohl condo proposal for North Street, typically leave out a number of common scenarios ... ground doesn't absorb water well. Snow can plug up pipes and grates and interfere with landscape grading that directs water towards catchment systems. Unfortunately, more rain on snow is what New [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 11:06:04

Strange times in the newspaper business get even stranger

January 15, 2009 Everything happens for the world to see Today's remarkable plane crash in New York City -- in which no one was ... of the earthquake, and it apparently holds back enough water to flood a city of half a million people ... the plane to make sure everyone had escaped, after putting the aircraft down on the water so well [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 22:14:02

Ike brings flooding, fires to Texas coast

HOUSTON, Texas (CNN) — Here’s a breakdown of areas in Texas affected by Hurricane Ike as it roared ashore early Saturday: ... district with 7 feet of water. Hours later, that had subsided to 4 feet. The storm also sparked a couple of fires and knocked out power, but the extent of the storm’s damage may not be known until later [more...]

Date: 2008-09-13 14:00:47

About putting SA wine on the global map

I read with interest about the initiative to beef up our wine marketing effort in the US. It’s called USAPA (United States Producer Association) ... -country-but-flood-the-foreign-markets-mostly-with-foul-tasting-plonk” contradiction. The message ... , bottled by strangers (who adds water…or maybe not…no-one knows) and sold in discount supermarkets [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 12:18:21

Oh No! Not Again!

Rain is nothing more than an inconvenience to most people’s plans, but to the residents of Freuchie it is a cause of concern and sleepless nights ... rainfall. John A Thomson, Chairman of Freuchie Flood Action Group checked the culvert entrance ... hours. The photograph below shows the high water levels at Freuchie Mill. Freuchie Mill culvert [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 14:23:54

It is what they don't tell you ...

As we watch the newspapers - and media generally - turn themselves into proxies for the Hamas publicity machine, the flood of stories from Gaza is driving out other news. As important, the focus specifically on one main aspect of the current conflict, to the exclusion of much else, is completely distorting perception of the crisis [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 01:29:00

It is timely to reprint what is arguably Dr. Martin Luther King’s greatest speech ever.  Those who give lip service to Dr. King today need to take note of this speech and see if they will still speak so highly of him.  As for me, this man was way ahead of his time here and these words definitely ring loud and true [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 08:03:04

How To Use Safe Deposit Boxes

When I was a kid, there was always this mystique about safe deposit boxes. My parents never had one so the only experience I had with them involved television shows or movies. The scenes were always of bank robberies, of masked men and women running into a smoke filled room filled (after they blew open the door of course!) [more...]

Date: 2008-09-24 16:20:02

Dear Making Memories customer,   I just want to take the opportunity to tell you how grateful we at Making Memories are for the opportunity we ... the winds had died down, it caused wide-spread flooding and massive property damage. My boys and I volunteered with a church group to help the flood victims clean out their homes and recover anything [more...]

Date: 2008-12-24 16:58:25

California Bleedin’

California Bleedin’ January 20th, 2009    by Bill Steigerwald California has apparently turned itself into Pennsylvania ... their devalued houses) for the same reason they and their ancestors moved out West in the first place — ... was a booming, upbeat utopia with lots of good jobs, cheap housing, low taxes and relatively few economic [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 15:06:34

The Truth About Cars, the Potential of Cities

This article was written by Alex Steffen in January 2008. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. Today's cars are costly, dangerous and an ecological nightmare. What if the solution to the problems they create, though, has more to do with where we live than what we drive? [more...]

Date: 2008-09-26 22:09:40

Hurricane Ike Ravaged The Environment: Investigation

WASHINGTON — Hurricane Ike's winds and massive waves destroyed oil platforms, tossed storage tanks and punctured pipelines. The environmental damage only now is becoming apparent: At least a half million gallons of crude ... substances into the air and water and onto the ground in Louisiana and Texas. The hardest hit places [more...]

Date: 2008-10-06 01:39:09

Fiji Floods: ‘The Village Drowned'

The rains in Fiji began falling Wednesday, January 7 and didn't let up for more than a week ... rains = no good for my area. Concerning my house…My host mom called to tell me reluctantly that “Emi ... my house. So, in what I imagine to be a ridiculous caper, my family members broke my windows to unlock [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 05:19:12

How To Avoid A Flood-Damaged Car [Flood Car]

Given the flooding in the upper Midwest earlier in the year, and the fact that many folks likely chose not to escape recent hurricanes by car, ... vehicle market. Sellers are generally required to disclose flood damage, but unscrupulous retailers ... of things to look for when checking out a used car that point to possible previous flood damage [more...]

Date: 2008-09-29 17:20:00

Beyond Vietnam

Just read it. (Or listen.) Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered 4 April 1967, at a meeting of Clergy and Laity Concerned About Vietnam at Riverside Church in New York City You can also click here to listen to Dr. King delivering the speech and download an MP3 file to replay any time [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 21:58:58

The Weekly Carboholic: carbon dioxide lifetime 50-100x longer than generally reported

Carbon dioxide lifetime 50-100x longer than generally reported Improvements in CO2 monitoring British plan for “floodable” towns New technology enables electricity from slower water currents First “solar rooftop” completed, others in jeopardy Distributed book publication and printing, anyone? There is a great deal of confusion [more...]

Date: 2008-12-04 05:35:47

Mekong Delta set for high tides during festive season

Deputy Chairman of the HCM City People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Tai on Wednesday urged district authorities to complete ongoing protective works against storms and flood tides on schedule.He ordered them to form teams to monitor important ... Thanh Liem, deputy head of the city Flood and Storm Prevention and Control Committee, said the work [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 23:36:00

10 Steps to a Healthy Ocean: Protecting our Oceans from Pollution

Photo courtesy of Webzer at Flickr.com. The ocean covers more than 70% of the earth’s surface, and it’s a major part of the ecosystem that we rely on. Phytoplankton are responsible for about half of the oxygen produced worldwide. More than 1 billion people rely on fish for a significant part of their diet [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 11:48:27

DrumBeat: October 25, 2008

Crisis could trigger big public transit payments WASHINGTON (AP) — Transit agencies around the country may have to come up with billions of dollars to repay investors as long-term financing deals disintegrate, a result of the global credit crisis that could eventually affect millions of commuters [more...]

Date: 2008-10-25 14:00:26

DrumBeat: October 13, 2008

Growth Economics on a Finite Planet Over the weekend, I asked Herman Daly, the specialist in “ecological economics” at the University of Maryland, about the recent financial turmoil. He pointed me to a short piece he wrote that was posted on the Oil Drum blog a few days ago and that he gave me permission to post below [more...]

Date: 2008-10-13 13:20:00

Basement Waterproofing Is Essential For Your Home

by Cooper Waldstein Have you had your home inspected recently to make sure that it isn’t in need of basement waterproofing repairs? ... t necessarily expensive. There are always more affordable options for stopping water damage ... , and experienced contractors can work within your budget to protect your home from water damage. Always [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 11:43:49

Disease — is it just a state of mind and bad energy?

The bigger story’s been missed. No one has put the pieces together. Two medical news stories this month may have appeared to be completely unrelated, but they had everything to do with each other. What they forewarn may be the most important message of all for the future of our healthcare [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 05:02:00

UN DAILY NEWS DIGEST - 19 January

UN DAILY NEWS from the UNITED NATIONS NEWS SERVICE19 January, 2009 =========================================================================SECRETARY-GENERAL RELIEVED AT CEASEFIRES CALLED BY ISRAEL, HAMASVoicing relief at Israel’s unilateral decision to halt its 22-day military offensive in Gaza and Hamas’ announcement of a temporary ceasefire, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 23:14:00

Is Your Home In Need Of Basement Waterproofing?

by Cooper Waldstein Have you had your home inspected recently to make sure that it isn’t in need of basement waterproofing repairs? ... company, but rather many ways to stop flood and water damage in a home. Depending on your budget ... construction, newer homes can experience flooding and water damage, too. Unfortunately, it’s almost [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 12:11:12

News from the Hive

Performancing Hive is an active problogging community where members can interact, make friends and contacts, develop ideas, learn and get support. And it has become a HUGE success and a very dynamic way to get ahead in blogosphere. Via Performancing itself, you can get news on the weekly buzz, for example- as James Mowery reported: [more...]

Date: 2008-09-22 06:58:14

Two ‘Lepto’ deaths, 12 confirmed cases for 2009

-Chief Medical Officer says Leptospirosis is a potentially serious bacterial illness that can affect many parts of the body ... contract the disease by contact with water, wet soil, or vegetation that has been contaminated ... by minimizing contact with water and mud that might be contaminated with the urine of infected animals [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 09:41:57

WITH MALAYSIAKINI: immaculate, the hero of Hudson

Immaculate,unflappable andow the hero of Hudsonby James Bone Chesley B Sullenberger and family The unflappable pilot who landed his US Airways jet ... of landing a commercial airliner on water without any loss of life has been dubbed “The Miracle ... , Captain Sullenberger glided the powerless jet down into the water intact, less than 300m from George [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 00:03:00

Beware of Flood Damaged Cars

Shortly after Hurricane Katrina, hundreds of thousands of refugees poured into the Houston area ... at first glance whether or not a car has flood damage. So you need to be diligent with your inspection ... that a car has flood damage because the outside of a car is remarkably easy to clean. Here you want [more...]

Date: 2008-10-17 12:02:35

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