Rick Scott is an extremely unpopular governor — so much that he's made a point of doing hurricane work all week instead of showing up at the Republican National Convention in his own state.
Rick Scott is an extremely unpopular governor so much that he's made a point of doing hurricane work all week instead of showing up at the Republican National Convention in his own state.
The following day, Manuel curved westward and strengthened to a point just shy of hurricane intensity before making its first landfall at that intensity on September 15.
Sales of existing homes fell by 1.2% in October, 20.7% below their level a year earlier.Consumer confidence in America dived to its lowest point since the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
An unusual flash point in the coverage of Hurricane Sandy occurred on Monday afternoon, hours before the storm made landfall in New Jersey, when Lonnie Quinn, the lead weather anchor on WCBS-TV in New York, appeared on television screens with the sleeves of his blue shirt pushed up to the elbows, his red tie hanging slack, stripes going every which way as if to express his franticness.
When he unwrapped the thing at home, he found the needle obdurately pointing to "Hurricane" at one end of the dial.
He points to Hurricane Ike as one of many recent examples where insured losses far exceeded the payouts from the federal government and the insurance industry, creating, in the case of Ike, a $16 billion shortfall.
If Mr. Obama has gained a point or two nationally because of Hurricane Sandy or other factors, then polls taken before it may underestimate his standing in the individual states as well.
U.S. stocks are weaker this morning–one day after the Federal Reserve Board's decision to lift U.S. interest rates one quarter of a percentage point, despite the economic impact of Hurricane Katrina.
Van Iden pointed out that the second anniversary of Hurricane Sandy was coming up, and said that Lassie had just been in Far Rockaway, helping teach kids how to make a survival backpack.
