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September 28th, 2005 | 
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This even affects us, all the up here in Wyoming, where gas in Riverton has danced near $3 a gallon for weeks. It cost me over $30 to fill up the Town Car with just HALF A TANK….
…which is why I’m now, and have been, riding my mountain bike all over campus, rain and shine.
You gotta do what ya gotta do…
Rich
This Week In Petroleum
Released on September 28, 2005
(Next Release on October 5, 2005)
A Significant Blow, But Not a Knockout
With Hurricane Rita making landfall near the Beaumont/Port Arthur, TX and Lake Charles, LA refining centers, 7 refineries, amounting to 1.7 million barrels per day of refinery capacity (10 percent of U.S. refinery capacity), were directly in the path or very near the path of the hurricane. Damage to some of these refineries, and the lack of electrical power supply to others, is preventing their immediate return to service. Combined with the 5 percent of refinery capacity near the New Orleans area that was still out following Hurricane Katrina, as much as 15 percent of U.S. refinery capacity could be out for at least another couple of weeks.
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From Charles S Thomas, Managing director for CACH International, to the IAEM list today…
(note from Rich…I repost this here simply because NO ONE has said it better, when it comes to national, and local, preparedness. Please read, share, and understand.)
In the many conversations and threads on the list, what I read is there are many who have not had to deal with the devastation wrought by the hurricane (regionally) and subsequent flooding in NO. Individuals yes, generally no. No surprise given the extent of devastation…these kinds of events happen rarely. However, this is similar to discussions following the World Trade Center/Pentagon attacks – discussions of catastrophe, the lack of communications and planning, and the difficulty of people (responders and recoverers) to deal with the devastation, the stress, and the moral issues associated with an event of considerable magnitude.
Many (though not all) in our immediate group (IAEM) and extended readers (emergency managers, planners, first responders, etc.) have never had to deal with this kind of reality or a truly significant disaster. Further, the realization that planning was imperfect, that worst case scenarios were overlooked, that the storm or the terrorist event “would not happen here” put a new twist on what they have always done.
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Report Warns of Terrorists’ ‘Great Ramadan Offensive’
By Sherrie Gossett
CNSNews.com Staff Writer
September 08, 2005
(CNSNews.com) – Al Qaeda’s plans for a series of spectacular terrorist strikes in October, targeting American interests as well as U.S. allies in Europe and the Middle East and said to be coordinated by Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenant in Iraq – Abu Musab al-Zarqawi — are the subject of a non-public report issued by terrorism experts this week.
The attacks, planned to coincide with the Muslim observance of Ramadan and dubbed the “Great Ramadan Offensive,” are designed to create a “fateful confrontation” with the U.S. and Israeli forces in the Middle East, according to a May 30 letter from Zarqawi to bin Laden. The contents of the letter are referenced in the report written by Yossef Bodansky, the former director of the U.S. Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare.
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Some disturbing truth…or, why it was as bad as it was….
Rich
Money Flowed to Questionable Projects
State Leads in Army Corps Spending, but Millions Had Nothing to Do With Floods
By Michael Grunwald
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, September 8, 2005; A01
Before Hurricane Katrina breached a levee on the New Orleans Industrial Canal, the Army Corps of Engineers had already launched a $748 million construction project at that very location. But the project had nothing to do with flood control. The Corps was building a huge new lock for the canal, an effort to accommodate steadily increasing barge traffic.
Except that barge traffic on the canal has been steadily decreasing.
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James Wesley Rawles, a long time author and writer, produced a book many years ago called
“Patriots: Surviving the Coming Collapse”. It was an excellent book, and incredibly full of very useful, and technical, survival information.
J.W. has come back to the forefront of survival discussion on the web, with a new blog he just put online, at the link above.
Already getting massive hits, James has a LOT of fans of his book, and seems to have plans to share quite a bit of thoughts, ideas, letters, and more via his blog system in the coming future.
I’d recommend that if you are inquisitive about being ahead of the pack when it comes to knowing more than the next guy, to put SurvivalBlog on your list of daily web visits.
Rich
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The following books are all in my library, having been purchased for school, for personal projects, or for entertainment. I’ve read them the past spring, either again, or for the first time, and share them with you here because I can highly recommend them for knowledge in MANY areas. If you have any questions or comments, be sure to use the COMMENT link below.
Single Combat by Dean Ing
SINGLE COMBAT – Dean Ing writes some pretty darn good action adventure books, and this one is part of a series. Highly recommended.
