PM Modi instructed officials to remain vigilant, closely monitor developments, and continuously evaluate the safety of Indian nationals in Sudan, providing all possible assistance.
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When Hemingway Took the Government to Task for a Hurricane Disaster that Cost Hundreds of Lives News at Home by Melissah J. Pawlikowski
Ms. Pawlikowski is a graduate student in history at Duquesne University and an HNN intern. On September 2, 1935 what became known as the Great Labor Day Hurricane ravaged the Florida Keys with winds of 160 miles per hour and gusts up to 200 miles per hour. Soon after the clouds had cleared, leaving a crystal blue horizon, the dead were counted. Between 400 and 600 people perished. What made this storm all the more tragic was that among the dead were 265 World War I veterans. At the height of the Great Depression these veterans had been sent to build a road on the low lying islands of the Florida Keys as a part of the Public Works for Veterans programs. While working, they were housed in inadequate tent-like structures provided by the Roosevelt administration. When the National Weather Bureau issued warnings fo
there were a few things that may be done to shore up that bend in the river. they concluded that any fix would likely be temporary. it s almost impossible from a practical standpoint to stabilize this slide. the slope will continue to slide. that was in the 1950s they said that. fast forward 50 years. in 1999, again, a report prepared by the u.s. army corps of engineers warned the potential for a large catastrophic failure at this location. the following year, the year 2000, another expert offers a similarly dire warning for the army corps of engineers, saying the slide area posed a significant risk to human lives and private property since human development of the flood plane in this area has steadily increased since the last major slide in 1967. then again, warned again in 2010, which was four years ago, a report prepared for the county, for snohomish county itself, warned that again this specific hillside area was one of the highest risk places in
potential for a large catastrophic failure in your report in 1999, obviously you re speaking as a scientist and you mean that in the technical sense. i look at this as a laymen and think that s a large catastrophic failure. are you saying you weren t imagining something on this scale? analysis that we did for that project suggested that there was a potential for very large volume of soil to fail from the western margin of the landslide. it suggests that it wasn t currently completely unstable, but that if conditions continue to evolve, that could be stabilized and fail. for that study, we were looking solely at the potential for sediment to the river. we didn t translate that then to an assessment of risk. that information was available. we just didn t take it to the next step. one of the things that has been raised by some of the residents of this area has