Published: August 18, 2007, 00:05
Riyadh: Two Saudis were beheaded by the sword on Friday after one was convicted of murdering a compatriot and the other was found guilty of raping a young girl, the interior ministry said.
Aaed Bin Ajab Al Qah'tani was convicted of shooting dead Moataz Shagmoom Al Shibani during a fight with a friend of the victim, the ministry said in a statement carried by the official SPA news agency. Fahed Abdullah Al Bureidi was found guilty of "sexual assault in a repulsive manner" against an underage girl, it said in a separate statement.
Saturday, August 18, 2007
I strongly suggest that Fallujah seek autonomous assistance from Saudi Arabia along with funding from The World Bank.
By THOMAS WATKINS 08.16.07, 10:47 PM ET
RIVERSIDE, Calif. -
A former Marine sergeant has been charged with voluntary manslaughter in the killings of two captured Iraqi insurgents in Fallujah in 2004.
Head shaven and wearing a black suit with an American flag pin on the lapel, Jose Nazario, 27, answered procedural questions before U.S. Magistrate Judge Oswald Parada. Bail was set at $50,000.
"I would just like to say, I'm a United States Marine who fought honorably for this country and I'm innocent of these charges," Nazario said outside court.
Defense attorney Emery Ledger told The Associated Press before the hearing that Nazario was charged last week and will enter a not guilty plea.
Nazario faces 10 years in prison if convicted of voluntary manslaughter, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Jerry Behnke. A preliminary hearing was scheduled for Sept. 5....
RIVERSIDE, Calif. -
A former Marine sergeant has been charged with voluntary manslaughter in the killings of two captured Iraqi insurgents in Fallujah in 2004.
Head shaven and wearing a black suit with an American flag pin on the lapel, Jose Nazario, 27, answered procedural questions before U.S. Magistrate Judge Oswald Parada. Bail was set at $50,000.
"I would just like to say, I'm a United States Marine who fought honorably for this country and I'm innocent of these charges," Nazario said outside court.
Defense attorney Emery Ledger told The Associated Press before the hearing that Nazario was charged last week and will enter a not guilty plea.
Nazario faces 10 years in prison if convicted of voluntary manslaughter, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Jerry Behnke. A preliminary hearing was scheduled for Sept. 5....
The propaganda is amazing from the USA media for the short lived memories they have. Hard to believe widespread killing by the military is encouraged and allowed, while so much suffering is witnessed in this country.
The region has to solve it's own problems.
Up to now Bush/Cheney have reigned in any fashion they wanted including a detainment facility at Gitmo where torture was a matter of experimentation.
The USA has nothing to offer Iraq except more exploitation of it's resources and more suffering for it's people.
The illegal war in Iraq isn't making the USA any safer, just the opposite. The region has to solve it's own problems which, they can do without our help or our treasury. Staying in Iraq means compromising national security for the USA.
The USA has become 'guns for hire' for mayors and government officials that can't find enough confidence among their own people to take up their own security.
With willful killing in towns left unsecure after the invasion is there no wonder there is and has been an insurgency.
First the American military has no post invasion strategy to secure Iraq which results in anarchy. The locals set up their own militias to cope with the lawlessness. Then the USA military calls the militias enemies of the Iraq government when they provide more protection than the Iraqi government could ever provide. So the Iraqi government now in charge of the USA military send in heavy artillary to destroy militias attempting to protect citizens. Then when the militias are either arrested or killed the Americans are left to secure the areas where the militias once secured the area. When that occurs, because the militias were killed or jailed, the communities turn on the Americans to rid them of their neighborhoods so it doesn't happen again. While the Americans are now saying, "You all need to come up with enough loyal men to the Iraqi Central Government to protect yourselves as we won't allow anyone without loyalities to the Prime Minister into the NEW police and military of which we supply official uniforms."
And the chaos goes on and on and on and on...
Now, The New York Times wants the American people to continue to be 'the guns' for the nation building in An Albar while all those that were once securing the area are dead or in prison, because the USA never had a post war invasion strategy .
NO MORE, USA tampering with authority in Iraq, because Iraq is not going to remain a sovereign nation as it is today. It is dividing into provincial governments according to the Iraqi Constitution. It is simply a matter of time before all that has occurred to date won't matter anyway.
The ethnicity of An Albar is interesting and is portrayed as a neglected province by the Iraq government. The Shi'ite leadership is being marginalized by the author to it's bigotry against Sunnis. By blaming the Shi'ites for failure to stabilize An Albar to the 'specifications' of perfection demanded within this article, it lends bigotry to Shi'ites. It is well known the Shi'ites and the Kurds are the people with their backs against the wall because the Sunnis have invited al Qaeda to participate in ethnic/sectarian killings of the Kurds and Shia as well as attacks against the American forces. There is a real push to promote the 'good Sunnis' against the 'bad Shi'ites' in this article. Why do I believe an attack against Iran is in here somewhere? Must be my imagination.
The Sunnis aren't even represented in the Iraqi Central Government anymore. They don't want it. They want to be their own province and should have it.
By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press WriterBAGHDAD Aug 16, 2007 (AP)
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The Iraqi prime minister and president announced a new alliance of moderate Shiites and Kurds in a push to save the crumbing government Thursday, saying a key Sunni bloc refused to join but the door remained open to them.
The political pact came amid a grim backdrop: more bodies being pulled from the rubble of the most deadly suicide bombing assault of the war. The Interior Ministry spokesman set the death toll in northwestern Iraq to at least 400 from Tuesday's attacks against a small religious sect. Earlier, some authorities outside the government said at least 500 people died....
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The Iraqi prime minister and president announced a new alliance of moderate Shiites and Kurds in a push to save the crumbing government Thursday, saying a key Sunni bloc refused to join but the door remained open to them.
The political pact came amid a grim backdrop: more bodies being pulled from the rubble of the most deadly suicide bombing assault of the war. The Interior Ministry spokesman set the death toll in northwestern Iraq to at least 400 from Tuesday's attacks against a small religious sect. Earlier, some authorities outside the government said at least 500 people died....
In all honesty, it's the Kurds and Shi'ites that are the most aggrieved by the circumstances they face now in Iraq. Each ethnicity was victimized by Saddam. The USA has not helped in that they were unable to secure the nation post invasion and to that end, the Sunnis allowed and encouraged al Qaeda's presence.
It's wrong to promote further the Iraq war. It's not conducted well. People continue to suffer and die. Why continue to fail the Iraqi people when neighboring countries can do better? Sometimes discretion is the best part of valor in realizing when one has failed and accommodate a solution whereby people are given relief rather than continued failures. It's time the USA seek better solutions for Iraq.
...tomorrow is another day...
I'll put some articles up tomorrow from around the globe, probably afternoon and then address an issue Sunday night. Basically, anyone paying attention knows the USA and it's role in the world is in shambles. the exception might be it's role in providing support for the fight against HIV/AIDS in Africa. No matter the subject, where the benevolence of the USA lacks it's obvious and under a Neocon executive branch that means benevolence lacks at every turn.
There isn't anything going well in Iraq. The USA is failing miserably to provide for the stability in the region, is making enemies with most of the nations there, while those naitons take extremist positions in confusion as to what to expect next.
A full 11 million people of Iraq, nearly half the country is in poverty, refugee status or dead, while Bush and his generals wonder why the area countries are opposed to the continued involvement there.
The USA response to the crisis in Iraq is never a 'Cease Fire' to benefit the people and a chance the violence will quell with lack of USA aggression or the American presence of overwhelming force. As a comparison, Vietnam was a guerilla war, yet 'Cease Fire's' were arranged and honored many times. Never once has that been attempted by Bush/Cheney or their generals. They have not even begun a peace process with any entities in Iraq and the result is unrelenting and escalating violence begun by USA Commanders killing innocent civilians from the very beginnings of the war in March 2003. Bush/Cheney and their USA commanders caused this war, it's 'civil' nature and it continues to grow. This has to be the USA's 'final hours' in Iraq for the lack of competency that is obvious.
The response to recent frustration by the USA leadership in Iraq is to send 'sorties' with bombing runs to every reach of Iraq that Bush's Surge cannot influence for it's lack of effectiveness. Iraq is about the size of Texas and there are huge amounts of bombs, bullets and munitons used in that country, including those tipped with 'depleted uranium' that sends Geiger Counters off the scale and White Phosphorus causing devastating injuries of civilians. That is another issue, the USA knows full well the condition of their living troops returning home with missing appendages, rattled brains, traumatized thought processes; but the reality is there are longer term effects of this war yet to be realized because of the use of depleted uranium in Iraq. Those long term effects are also a reality for the people of Iraq.
The USA does not belong in that country. It does nothing to improve the humanitarian crisis as increases in war methods only escalates the Civil War and suffering. The 'victory' to nation building the Republicans are seeking has to come last to realize the profound suffering and humanitarian crisis this illegal war has brought to the populous of Iraq. That is daughting compared to the casualities of the civil war and Bush's political warring. The Patreaus 'insurgency' approach is far too late and far too insufficient to justify continued war against the people.
The humanitarian crisis outweighs anything else and to realize there is containment of this crisis to primarily Iraq without dramaticly desperate exporting to neighboring countries is a statement of sincere leadership of Iraq's neighbors and their ability to oppress and stop instability within their own borders. That screams at me as an authority the USA has never been able to match and the primary reason the region has to be 'in control' of Iraq and it's resolve.
The leaders of neighboring nations have been able to insure their populous internal peace and prosperity while huge chaos reigns in Iraq. The American presence in Iraq is completely out of control and profoundly deadly. It's an outrage the Bush/Cheney administration isn't asked one question by the media regarding the humanitarian crisis and it's priorty as well as any candidate for president. The ONLY focus about Iraq's future is 'the state of war' and not the condition of the populous of Iraq and it's genocidal characteristics. The 'complaining' of Bush/Cheney, their administration and generals is always about the questionable roll of others crossing the borders that kill Americans rather than how to end the suffering of Iraqis. This executive branch sees an unrelenting war for profit so long as there are no dead Americans. "W"rong again. Besides the wide spread and unconscionable humanitarian crisis, the USA treasury and it's burden to 'bad leadership' cannot continue to oppress the opportunity of Americans of future generations with 'no vote' in this matter.
To move on, the weather patterns around the globe are toxic to life and currently there are processes at work in the Atlantic that will reach as far as Seattle, Washington before they dissipate. Tropical Storm Erin never stopped it's dumping of storm waters until nearly half the country was effected, the result ceased in the northwest where drought and fires still blaze.
Every nation and state needs to prepare for the effects of a hurricane known today as "Dean." Floyd had a diameter of 500 miles bringing torrential rains and flooding to land an entire 24 hours before the 'eye' arrived. That reality has to be adhered to as well by the people that are supposed to protect lives anywhere coming close to the path of "Dean."
Well, with that said there is much ground to cover tomorrow. Until then...
There isn't anything going well in Iraq. The USA is failing miserably to provide for the stability in the region, is making enemies with most of the nations there, while those naitons take extremist positions in confusion as to what to expect next.
A full 11 million people of Iraq, nearly half the country is in poverty, refugee status or dead, while Bush and his generals wonder why the area countries are opposed to the continued involvement there.
The USA response to the crisis in Iraq is never a 'Cease Fire' to benefit the people and a chance the violence will quell with lack of USA aggression or the American presence of overwhelming force. As a comparison, Vietnam was a guerilla war, yet 'Cease Fire's' were arranged and honored many times. Never once has that been attempted by Bush/Cheney or their generals. They have not even begun a peace process with any entities in Iraq and the result is unrelenting and escalating violence begun by USA Commanders killing innocent civilians from the very beginnings of the war in March 2003. Bush/Cheney and their USA commanders caused this war, it's 'civil' nature and it continues to grow. This has to be the USA's 'final hours' in Iraq for the lack of competency that is obvious.
The response to recent frustration by the USA leadership in Iraq is to send 'sorties' with bombing runs to every reach of Iraq that Bush's Surge cannot influence for it's lack of effectiveness. Iraq is about the size of Texas and there are huge amounts of bombs, bullets and munitons used in that country, including those tipped with 'depleted uranium' that sends Geiger Counters off the scale and White Phosphorus causing devastating injuries of civilians. That is another issue, the USA knows full well the condition of their living troops returning home with missing appendages, rattled brains, traumatized thought processes; but the reality is there are longer term effects of this war yet to be realized because of the use of depleted uranium in Iraq. Those long term effects are also a reality for the people of Iraq.
The USA does not belong in that country. It does nothing to improve the humanitarian crisis as increases in war methods only escalates the Civil War and suffering. The 'victory' to nation building the Republicans are seeking has to come last to realize the profound suffering and humanitarian crisis this illegal war has brought to the populous of Iraq. That is daughting compared to the casualities of the civil war and Bush's political warring. The Patreaus 'insurgency' approach is far too late and far too insufficient to justify continued war against the people.
The humanitarian crisis outweighs anything else and to realize there is containment of this crisis to primarily Iraq without dramaticly desperate exporting to neighboring countries is a statement of sincere leadership of Iraq's neighbors and their ability to oppress and stop instability within their own borders. That screams at me as an authority the USA has never been able to match and the primary reason the region has to be 'in control' of Iraq and it's resolve.
The leaders of neighboring nations have been able to insure their populous internal peace and prosperity while huge chaos reigns in Iraq. The American presence in Iraq is completely out of control and profoundly deadly. It's an outrage the Bush/Cheney administration isn't asked one question by the media regarding the humanitarian crisis and it's priorty as well as any candidate for president. The ONLY focus about Iraq's future is 'the state of war' and not the condition of the populous of Iraq and it's genocidal characteristics. The 'complaining' of Bush/Cheney, their administration and generals is always about the questionable roll of others crossing the borders that kill Americans rather than how to end the suffering of Iraqis. This executive branch sees an unrelenting war for profit so long as there are no dead Americans. "W"rong again. Besides the wide spread and unconscionable humanitarian crisis, the USA treasury and it's burden to 'bad leadership' cannot continue to oppress the opportunity of Americans of future generations with 'no vote' in this matter.
To move on, the weather patterns around the globe are toxic to life and currently there are processes at work in the Atlantic that will reach as far as Seattle, Washington before they dissipate. Tropical Storm Erin never stopped it's dumping of storm waters until nearly half the country was effected, the result ceased in the northwest where drought and fires still blaze.
Every nation and state needs to prepare for the effects of a hurricane known today as "Dean." Floyd had a diameter of 500 miles bringing torrential rains and flooding to land an entire 24 hours before the 'eye' arrived. That reality has to be adhered to as well by the people that are supposed to protect lives anywhere coming close to the path of "Dean."
Well, with that said there is much ground to cover tomorrow. Until then...
Zaca Fire latest and a look at how we are paying for the Zaca Fire
August 17, 2007
USA Large Incident Fires
August 14, 2007
Zaca Fire, Santa Barbara, California
Photographer states :: Run for your lives. Smoke from the Zaca fire north of Santa Barbara looms over the ridgeline. The fire is actually miles away, and burning to the north and east through uninhabited mountains. At last count, it had burned more than 300 square miles.
Friday, August 17, 2007
Reported by: Melissa Mecija
SANTA BARBARA COUNTY
Zaca Fire costs are now reaching the 77 million dollar mark. Many are now asking, how are we paying for this?
The latest:
Almost 2,900 firefighters are on scene.
The fire is 59 percent contained, down from 63 percent yesterday.
The fire has burned more than 143,200 acres.
It is now the eighth largest wildfire in California history.
A warning for weekend travelers: Highway 33 between Ojai and Cuyama and the Lockwood Road may close tomorrow. That depends on how the fire moves overnight.
Incident commanders are working with the California Highway Patrol on a traffic closure plan.
About 70 percent of this fire is paid through federal funds.
Initial estimates by fire crews showed they would contain the fire at the 30 million dollar range. But as mother nature proved time and again, they were wrong.
Wishes of encouragement fill a makeshift bulletin board at base camp. Elementary school students tell firefighters to keep faith.
One child's request, "I hope you guys get more money."...
Almost 2,900 firefighters are on scene.
The fire is 59 percent contained, down from 63 percent yesterday.
The fire has burned more than 143,200 acres.
It is now the eighth largest wildfire in California history.
A warning for weekend travelers: Highway 33 between Ojai and Cuyama and the Lockwood Road may close tomorrow. That depends on how the fire moves overnight.
Incident commanders are working with the California Highway Patrol on a traffic closure plan.
About 70 percent of this fire is paid through federal funds.
Initial estimates by fire crews showed they would contain the fire at the 30 million dollar range. But as mother nature proved time and again, they were wrong.
Wishes of encouragement fill a makeshift bulletin board at base camp. Elementary school students tell firefighters to keep faith.
One child's request, "I hope you guys get more money."...
Storms leave 'disaster area' in wake - clean up funds sought - video
August 16, 2007
East Chicago, Illinois
Photographer states :: EXTREME STRONG THUNDERSTORM RAKE EAST CHICAGO, INDIANA - HEAVY RAIN >1.5, STROND WINDS, LARGE HAIL. ROOFS BLOWN OFF APARTMENT BUILDINGS, BUSINESSES, AND LARGE TREES UPROOTED
August 15, 2007
2030z
Enhanced Infrared Satellite by UNISYS
The 'inland' hurricane.
August 17, 2007
Kouts, Indiana
Photographer states :: Storm Damage, severe thunderstorms blasted lake and porter counties in northwest indiana wed. august 15. the storm reached maximum intensity where these pictures were taken. 21 metal truss towers for power lines were toppled. winds were estimated to be between 100-120 mph.
New Watches Posted After Storms Leave Damage (click here)
Storms Target Parts Of Indiana
POSTED: 6:26 am EDT August 16, 2007
UPDATED: 8:44 pm EDT August 16, 2007
Severe thunderstorm watches were scheduled to be in effect for some southeastern and far south-central Indiana counties until 9 p.m. Thursday.
Counties included in the watches were Crawford, Dearborn, Dubois, Harrison, Ohio, Orange, Perry, Ripley, Switzerland and Washington. Earlier Thursday, a watch including much of Indiana's southern half, but the watch was trimmed by 5:45 p.m.
Storms Target Parts Of Indiana
POSTED: 6:26 am EDT August 16, 2007
UPDATED: 8:44 pm EDT August 16, 2007
Severe thunderstorm watches were scheduled to be in effect for some southeastern and far south-central Indiana counties until 9 p.m. Thursday.
Counties included in the watches were Crawford, Dearborn, Dubois, Harrison, Ohio, Orange, Perry, Ripley, Switzerland and Washington. Earlier Thursday, a watch including much of Indiana's southern half, but the watch was trimmed by 5:45 p.m.
Storms are also expected in the Indianapolis area, but those should be more scattered.
A line of thunderstorms moved across northern Indiana early Thursday with strong winds and hail, causing damage, downpours and leaving behind scattered flooding.
Two tornadoes touched down late Wednesday near the town of Argos, about 30 miles south of South Bend, according to the National Weather Service. A factory had roof damage and a police car was picked up and turned around, Argos police said. No injuries were reported.
The weather service said both tornadoes rated an EF1 on the Enhanced Fujita scale, with estimated winds of 86 mph to 110 mph.
The storm front first swept through northwestern Indiana, where large hail in Lake and Porter counties was reported to the weather service. Numerous instances of downed trees and power lines occurred in those areas and elsewhere as the storm moved southeast.
Some 36,500 homes and businesses in Lake County remained without electricity Thursday evening, with Northern Indiana Public Service Co. estimating it would be Monday before all power would be restored in Gary.
The weather service issued tornado warnings for much of the area between Logansport and Fort Wayne. Wind gusts of 50 mph to 60 mph were reported from the storms, with flash flooding happening in Valparaiso and Merrillville.
Cooler conditions are expected over the weekend, with highs in the low-80s.
Next week, warmer weather returns with sporadic chances of showers and thunderstorms.
A line of thunderstorms moved across northern Indiana early Thursday with strong winds and hail, causing damage, downpours and leaving behind scattered flooding.
Two tornadoes touched down late Wednesday near the town of Argos, about 30 miles south of South Bend, according to the National Weather Service. A factory had roof damage and a police car was picked up and turned around, Argos police said. No injuries were reported.
The weather service said both tornadoes rated an EF1 on the Enhanced Fujita scale, with estimated winds of 86 mph to 110 mph.
The storm front first swept through northwestern Indiana, where large hail in Lake and Porter counties was reported to the weather service. Numerous instances of downed trees and power lines occurred in those areas and elsewhere as the storm moved southeast.
Some 36,500 homes and businesses in Lake County remained without electricity Thursday evening, with Northern Indiana Public Service Co. estimating it would be Monday before all power would be restored in Gary.
The weather service issued tornado warnings for much of the area between Logansport and Fort Wayne. Wind gusts of 50 mph to 60 mph were reported from the storms, with flash flooding happening in Valparaiso and Merrillville.
Cooler conditions are expected over the weekend, with highs in the low-80s.
Next week, warmer weather returns with sporadic chances of showers and thunderstorms.
200 millimeters converts to about 8 inches of rain. Erin was the storm no one thought was coming. Ha.
Published: Aug. 15, 2007 at 11:49 AM
T.S. Erin forms in Gulf, Dean strengthens
MIAMI, Aug. 15 (UPI) -- A tropical depression in the Gulf of Mexico surprised Miami forecasters by strengthening into Tropical Storm Erin on Wednesday.
Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Miami said at 11 a.m. the depression was poorly organized but soon after received data from a hurricane reconnaissance aircraft that sustained wind speeds had surpassed the 39 mph threshold and the depression became the fifth named Atlantic storm of the year.
A tropical storm warning was issued for the Texas coast from Freeport southward, while a tropical storm watch was in effect for the northeast coast of Mexico from Rio San Fernando northward.
At 11 a.m., Erin was about 250 miles east of Brownsville, Texas, moving toward the west-northwest around 14 mph, forecasters said.
Further east in the Atlantic Ocean, Tropical Storm Dean strengthened about 1,045 miles east of the Lesser Antilles. The system had sustained winds of 60 mph, and was moving westward at 20 mph.
"Dean could become a hurricane tomorrow," the forecast said.
August 16, 2007
Corpus Christi, Texas
Photographer states :: Erin rolls in.
Tropical storm Erin claims four lives
17/08/2007 - 6:28:23 PM
Recovery efforts were in full swing today as water-logged Texas dealt with the rainy remnants of Tropical Storm Erin, which authorities blamed for at least four deaths and said could be a prelude to
Hurricane Dean as it gathered strength in the Atlantic.
Erin dropped up to 10 inches of rain in parts of San Antonio and Houston, and officials throughout central and southern Texas braced for the possibility of more rain this morning.
Overnight rain prompted the evacuation early Friday of three areas in Texas’ Bandera County, officials said.
While there were no serious injuries in that area, a man was swept away yesterday in San Antonio after apparently getting out of his vehicle in floodwater, a police spokeswoman said.
Three people died in a head-on collision on a rainy highway in Comal County, but Department of Public Safety Trooper Rick Alvarez said the cause of the crash was still under investigation.
http://www.eveningecho.ie/news/bstory.asp?j=97861590&p=9786y89z&n=97861970
Tropical Storm Erin Cause of Several Deaths
Heavy rains in the wake of Tropical Storm Erin are blamed for the deaths of at least five people in Texas.
At least eight inches of rain have been dumped on the state. In San Antonio a man was swept away when he got out of his car in floodwater, three died in a traffic accident and another person died when a waterlogged roof collapsed.
http://www.wbko.com/news/headlines/9216761.html
Crude ends 3% lower in broad commodities sell-off
By Polya Lesova, MarketWatch
Last Update: 4:25 PM ET Aug 16, 2007
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Crude oil tumbled 3% Thursday in a broad commodities decline, as traders rushed to sell amid a global stock rout fuelled by exacerbating troubles in the credit and subprime markets.
Crude oil for September delivery fell $2.33, or 3%, to close at $71 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The action in crude was a sharp turnaround from the previous trading session, when the contract rose 95 cents, or 1%, to close at $73.33 a barrel. Read more.
"You're facing a serious and under-appreciated global liquidity crisis," said Zachary Oxman, senior trader at Wisdom Financial, in emailed comments.
"Right now, parties are all running for the door to get any and all the cash that they possibly can on their books to cover calls and redemptions."
Reformulated gasoline and heating-oil futures also sold off. Metals futures tumbled.
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/oil-energy-futures-fall-sharply/story.aspx?guid=%7BFBAFAAB4-135C-47AA-9E53-E218E22B0909%7D
Tropical Storm Erin comes and goes almost unnoticed
Aug 16, 2007
ARANSAS COUNTY - Tropical Depression Erin pelted parts of the Coastal Bend with rain and wind as she came ashore Thursday morning. Over in in Aransas County, officials and emergency personnel had spent days preparing for the worst.
Erin took them by surprise, but not in the way a storm would typically. The storm reached Rockport Beach as quietly as the sun does every morning - a relief for Aransas County workers.
"We're very pleased that it was just a rain event because we've been having so much rain over the last few months," Harbor Master Keith Barrett said. "Another miss for the Coastal Bend."
http://www.kristv.com/Global/story.asp?S=6943834&nav=menu192_2
continued...
San Antonio slowly recovers from aftermath of Erin
August 16, 2007
Tropical Storm Erin moves into San Antonio, Texas
After being deluged by the effects of Tropical Storm Erin on Thursday, city crews and relief organizations are spending Friday assessing the damage and clearing out debris.
City staff from the departments of Community Initiatives and Public Works, in coordination with the American Red Cross, are forming teams to determine the extent of the damage.
As of Friday morning, emergency crews continue their search for a missing 22-year-old woman swept away by floodwaters at Dorset and Thames on the North Central Side Thursday night at 11:30 p.m.
There were also 87 homes impacted by Tropical Storm Erin, located mostly in the Southwest and South Sides of the city....
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