by Associated Press Published: November 29,2012
Tags: building, Commercial Real Estate, culture, demolish, Heritage, historic, histoy, hurricane, raze, satorm, tropical, Weather
PASCAGOULA — Hurricane Isaac has done irreparable damage to the Brumfield’s Building, a fixture in downtown Pascagoula since the 1920s. A spokesman for the family said a contractor has been selected and the building will be torn down, once the city has been consulted and all requirements and considerations met. Losing the building will knock [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: November 14,2012
Tags: agriculture, damage, farm, farmer, farming, grower, harvest, holiday, hurricane, producer, production, rain, storm, tree, tropical, Weather, wind, yield
ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — Christmas tree growers were thinking about the holidays when Hurricane Isaac made landfall Aug. 28, knowing the winds and rains would bring additional work before trees would be ready for the 2012 harvest. Stephen Dicke, Extension forestry professor at Mississippi State University’s Central Mississippi Research and Extension Center in Raymond, said storm [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: November 9,2012
Tags: contract, elevate, elevation, hurricane, pier, port, storm, storm surge, travel, traznsporation, tropical, Weather
GULFPORT — The state port commission board has reinstated a $19-million contract to elevate the first 37 acres of the West Pier for storm-surge protection, with the understanding the final elevation would be lower than previously intended. The Sun Herald reports W.C. Fore Trucking Inc. was hired yesterday to raise the acreage by about 10 [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: November 6,2012
Tags: construction, cost-share, federal agency, home, homebuilder, homebuilding, homeowner, house, hurricane, natural disaster, protection, residence, resident, retrofit, storm, tropical, wind
MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST — Residents in Hancock, Harrison and Jackson counties can now save more money to protect their homes from wind damage if they participate in the Coastal Retrofit Mississippi Initiative, according to the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency (MEMA). The Federal Emergency Management Agency lowered the homeowner cost-share for participants from 25 percent to [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: November 2,2012
Tags: agriculture, Chicken, economist, education, farm, farmer, farming, forecast, higher education, hurricane, poultry, prediction, public university, storm, tropical, Weather
WILMINGTON, Del. — The Delmarva peninsula’s poultry industry is up and running after emerging from Superstorm Sandy relatively unscathed. The Delaware Department of Agriculture said there was no significant flooding or poultry house damage, and that chicken farmers are generally in good shape. Feed trucks are back on the road, and poultry processing plants resumed [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: November 2,2012
Tags: disaster recovery, disaster response, engineer, engineering, flood, hurricane, natural disaster, rain, severe weather, storm, storm surge, tropical, wind
VICKSBURG — The Federal Emergency Management Agency has tasked the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to assist with the disaster relief mission underway in the areas affected by Hurricane Sandy. Three Vicksburg District employees, Jasper Lummus, Greg Williams and Lamar Jenkins are onsite serving as subject matter experts for debris removal efforts in Philadelphia, Pa., [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: October 30,2012
Tags: disaster preparedness, electricity, energy, flood, flooding, hurricane, light, lighting, natural disaster, nuclear power, power, Power plant, rain, storm, storm surge, tornado, tropical, wind
JACKSON — Entergy Nuclear reports its Indian Point Energy Center and James A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant in New York, Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Massachusetts and Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant in Vermont have all safely weathered Hurricane Sandy. Indian Point 2, FitzPatrick and Pilgrim remained at full power while Vermont Yankee reduced power [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: October 30,2012
Tags: commission, commissioner, elevation, export, exporter, exporting, goods, hurricane, import, importer, importing, meeting, natural disaster, port, raise, storm, transportation, tropical, Weather
GULFPORT — The state port’s five-member board has set a third special meeting because members were unable to decide in two previous sessions whether the port should continue elevation of the West Pier from 10 feet to 25 feet above sea level. Commissioner Jim Simpson told The Sun Herald port consultants indicated tenants will evacuate [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: October 30,2012
Tags: disaster recovery, electricity, emergency, emergency management, energy, first responders, hurricane, natural disaster, power, rain, rescue, snow, storm, storm surge, tornado, tropical, Weather, wind
NORTHEASTERN U.S. — The State of Mississippi is sending more aid to areas in the path of Hurricane Sandy, and a utility is sending more personnel to assist in restoring power. Three swift water rescue teams made up of task force members from all over the state are deploying to Maryland to assist with rescue [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: October 15,2012
Tags: beach, contact, environment, fish, fishing, flood, flooding, health, hurricane, outdoors, outside, pollution, public health, rain, sewage, sewer, state agecny, storm, storm surge, swim, swimmer, swimming, tropical, Weather, wind
MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST — The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) has lifted several post-Hurricane Isaac beach closures on the Coast, but issued a new one for a stretch of beach in Biloxi. MDEQ has lifted beach closures issued August 31 for the following monitoring stations in Hancock and Harrison counties: • Station 1 — [...] [...]
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