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May 28th, 2010
Wright, The Detroit News/caglecartoons.com
Thirty-eight days ago, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, in a conflagration that killed 11 workers and was the result of poor decision making after nearly two days of arguments as to how to proceed. — More
May 17th, 2010
Bill Schorr/caglecartoons.com
You are a Gulf State emergency manager and you need to have a plan in place to protect your community in the event of a disaster. Your job is to do a hazard vulnerability analysis of your community and determine the perils and hazards that could become threats. You would then need to determine which hazards you are most vulnerable to and make an assessment of the community’s identifiable risk exposure. — More
May 7th, 2010
Jeff Cagle/For The Klaxon.com
The Music City has fallen flat—into water.
Nashville still is drenched a week after torrential storms dropped more than 20 inches of rain over two-thirds of the state. The damage to the Nashville area is estimated at $1.5 billion as of Friday. The 28 lives lost are not recoverable. And life as it was, may not be either. — More
May 1st, 2010
Parker, Florida Today/caglecartoons.com
The explosion on the BP oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico April 20 has left 11 dead. Five thousand feet below the site where the rig eventually sank, the outlet vent is gushing 210,000 gallons of oil per day into the Gulf. — More
April 25th, 2010
A system of violent thunderstorms left a trail of devastation across Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama and Georgia Saturday. The storm system spawned several tornadoes, the worst of which killed 10 people in Mississippi and clobbered Yazoo City. The tornado left a path of destruction nearly a mile wide that covered several counties. — More
April 20th, 2010
A hyped-up health care scare. A government conspiracy. A vaccine nightmare. One year later, mention swine flu to any health worker and they cringe. — More
April 14th, 2010
A 6.9-magnitude earthquake rocked China’s Qinghai province late Tuesday night, killing at least 600 and leaving more than 10,000 people injured and buried under rubble. — More
