Does any body know anything about the eastland disaster?
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The Eastland was a passenger ship based in Chicago and used for tours. In 1915 the new federal "Seaman's Act" required retrofitting of a complete set of lifeboats. The new gear made the ship unstable. On July 24, 1915, the Eastland and two other cruise ships, the Theodore Roosevelt and the Petoskey, were hired to take employees from Chicago's Western Electric Company to a picnic in Michigan City, Indiana. Passengers began boarding around 6:30 AM. By 7:10, the ship had reached its capacity of 2,500 passengers. It had also developed a list to the port, which the crew attempted to stabilize by admitting water to the ballast tanks. By 7:28, the Eastland began to roll over, coming to rest on its side in 20 feet of water only 20 feet from the wharf, on the south bank of the Chicago River between Clark and LaSalle Streets. The Kenosha came alongside the hull to allow some passengers to leap to safety. 841 passengers and 4 crew died in the disaster. Many of the passengers on the Eastland were Czech ("Bohemian') immigrants from Cicero, Illinois.\n\nWriter Jack Woodford witnessed the disaster and gave a first-hand account to the Chicago newspaper the Herald and Examiner. In his autobiography, Woodford writes:\n\n"And then movement caught my eye. I looked across the river. As I watched in disoriented stupefaction a steamer large as an ocean liner slowly turned over on its side as though it were a whale going to take a nap. I didn't believe a huge steamer had done this before my eyes, lashed to a dock, in perfectly calm water, in excellent weather, with no explosion, no fire, nothing. I thought I had gone crazy." \nAfter the Eastland was raised in October 1915, she was sold to the Illinois Naval Reserve and recommissioned as the USS Wilmette stationed at Great Lakes Naval Base. On June 7, 1921, the Wilmette was given the task of sinking the UC-97, a German U-Boat captured during World War I. The guns of the Wilmette were manned by Gunner's Mate J.O. Sabin, who had fired the first American shell in World War I, and Gunner's Mate A.F. Anderson, the man who fired the first American torpedo in the conflict.\n\nIn 1946, the Wilmette was offered up for sale. Finding no takers, the government sold her for scrap and she was demolished in 1947.
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i havent heared or read about that in any news site!!\ncheck http://www.elaph.com\n\nHuS
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Hey Blondey. You can find heaps of information just by using the Yahoo! search engine. Just type in "Hurricane Katrina".\n\nI just did a presentation on Katrina last week, myself. \n\nKatrina made landfall on Monday, August 29, 2005. It came ashore just east of Grand Isle, Louisiana, at 6:30 A.M. E.T. (eastern time). Katrina was a category 3 storm with 115 mph sustained winds on Saturday, Aug. 27th- but by Sunday, it had intensified to a Category 5 storm, with winds of 160 mph.\n\nThe president of the New Orleans city council estimated that more than 100 people in the city were stranded on their rooftops or in their attics, because there was up to 14 feet of floodwaters in and around their homes (reported by Dave Cohen of CBS radio affiliate WWL).\n\nSome facts that support the government response:\n\n1. Coast Guard, U.S. Navy, and other search and rescue units were in New Orleans or elsewhere in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama on Monday, after the storm passed out of the area. \n\n2. The full extent of the devastation to the Gulf Coast Region and the levee breaches in New Orleans were not known until Tuesday.\n\n3. A convoy of about 500 buses reached the Superdome late Wednesday.\n\n4. The first of 500 busloads of evacuees reached Houston early Thursday.\n\nThere was a lot of criticism towards the government's response to Katrina, as well. Do a little research, and you will find plenty of things to talk about. Good luck!
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As a part of my work, I went on a trip with the Mayor of our small town in Alabama, and all of the department heads for the city.  We visited Waveland, Mississippi.  \n\nWaveland had a population of about 8,500 people and was directly on the coast.  Waveland was covered by 25 foot waves, twice during Katrina.  The water traveled as far as 10 miles inland!!  The water was incredibly destructive.  A house that has been completely covered in water is a rubble pile.  The amount of debris still left to be cleared 6 MONTHS LATER  was mind blowing.  The Mayor of Waveland and all of the city employees were soldiering on in a crisis state every day.  They divided the town into north and south (south being by the beach) and the city oversaw clearing and re-constructing the South.  The North was to be delt with by the Corps of Engineers.  The Corps took over the six dump sites the city already had in place and permitted (the city had been through hurricanes before) and told them they had to find and permit other sites.  (Where DO you put 15 million tons of debris?)  The city got to it and had accomplished 10 TIMES what the Corps had been able to do!  \n\nWaveland complained that the response from the Federal Government was too slow,  the communication was terrible, and the rules changed constantly.  \n\nI don't think the Feds CAN respond to a  disaster like Katrina.  The process is toooooo sssllooooww.  Also the Department of Homeland Security (over FEMA) was never intended or structured to deal with a disaster like this.  They were put in place for invasions.  We need some major renovation or a new department!!\n\nFYI - the money is still there - it just takes them soooo long to distribute it.  We are still getting checks and funding from IVAN!!
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I hadn't heard that.  What on Earth could it be about?  It sunk.  End of story, right?
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Hope this helps...\n\nhttp://www.959theranch.com/news/?news_id=151
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Information about Flight 77:\n\nhttp://sadnews.net/ctz/0Mem/20010911/AA77-2001.htm
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How about doing a search on Hurricane Katrina.  the issues there were huge\n\ngood luck
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I actually saw a documentary on this, on the channel "Discovery Civilizations".\n\nBasically, it said the whole area is tectonically unstable and laced with pockets of underground gas.  There was an earthquake, that resulted in liquefaction of the sands, and the entire cities slid right into the sea.  The fires were the result of friction lighting the gas pockets on fire.   \n\nIt would have been horrifying to behold.
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Almost 80,000 people lost their life in this worst ever earthquake in this area.\nIt happened on 8th of October 2005.\nIt was of 7.6 megnituide.\nThese days earthquake hit areas are under very very cold weather. Snow is falling their and they people dont have homes still living in camps n tants provided by Gov. and UNO. they dont have schools, hospitals, clean water.\nCauses told by some geologists were the movement of plates under that area.
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Bath School disaster:\n\nThe New York Times, May 20, 1927\nhttp://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~bauerle/nyt520.txt\n\nClinton County Republican-News June 2, 1927\nhttp://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~bauerle/ccrn2a.txt\n\n Parker, G. (1980) Mayday, History of a Village Holocaust 27. Liberty Press
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http://home.att.net/~thehessians/disasterwatch.html There you go!! Hope you like it.
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No one withing the general public knows the answer to this question. There has been a lot of conspiracy around that incident. According to the locals who were directly involved in the "crash", they said yes. According to the military, they say no. \n\nRight now, it will have to be left up to your personal belief. Do you believe that there is undocumented life beyond our solar system? If so, do you belive it is intelligent life? If so, do you believe that life is capable of coming to Earth? \n\nSince the Government will not or cannot confirm either way, there is no real answer to this question.
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I don't know what happened but I would contact the owner of the stadium or the team owner and maybe write a letter to be published in the Plain Dealer\nIf you feel comfrotable explaining what happened please do
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East lake, Florida?\nCan you clarify this for me please?\n\nIf it is East Lake in Florida, this link may be of some help:\nhttp://www.eastlakefirerescue.com/\n\nThe site says it is Charles Dedman or does that need to be updated after recent elections?\nEither way you can email to the address below and ask:\nmwayne@eastlakefirerescue.com
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What exactly are you seeking? I am an emergency mgmt specialist and there are tons of places to get info. The first place I would suggest would be www.ready.gov.\nAlso, try www.fema.gov or your state's emergency management office.  Good luck!
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Info may be found here:\n\nhttp://www.swrfi.org/news/news%20021906.htm