Ike’s potential impact
The Department of Homeland Security provided this assessment of the potential impact of Hurricane Ike to NBC News on Friday:
Storm surge
• 572,000 people within storm surge area
• 6 drinking water plants affected by storm surge
• 34 wastewater treatment facilities affected by storm surge
• 54 police stations, 89 fire stations and 32 ambulance services affected by storm surge
• 10 hospitals with more than 10 beds affected by storm surge
• 47 nursing homes affected by storm surge
• 7 wire centers affected by storm surge
• 140 electric power substations affected by storm surge
• 48 non-nuclear generating units affected by surge
• 10 industrial plants including oil refineries and chemical plants are co-located with 41 generators affected by storm surge
Power failures
• 5.2 million customers may lose power in Texas
• 99 drinking water plants in outage area (only 14 plants serve more than 50,000)
• More than 1,500 wastewater treatment facilities are in outage area
• 799 police stations, 1,973 fire stations and 641 ambulance services within outage area
• 256 hospitals with more than 50 beds within outage area
• 1,263 Nursing Homes within electric power outage area
Petroleum, natural gas
• 95 percent of Gulf of Mexico oil and natural gas production suspended
• 1.25 million barrels per day of oil production (6 percent) of U.S. petroleum demand
• 6.9 billion cubic feet per day of natural gas production (11 percent of U.S. daily average natural gas demand)
Originally Posted By Gnome de Plume at 3:42 pmSupporting evidence that Palin was fully aware that Wasilla charged victims of sexual assault: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jacob-alperinsheriff/sarah-palin-instituted-ra_b_125833.html
And that the change occurred on her watch. Previously victims were not charged.
Oh, that is excellent. The story had already reached the MSM, Sarah had categorically denied it, and now the doc dump lights her pants on fire. And the underlying subject (sexual assaults) is sure to give it lots of coverage.
Mmmm, mmmm, mmmm, I love the smell of Repiglicans self-destructing.
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Texas braces for Ike, deadly storm surge
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