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It's report card time for electric companies, for their performance during Hurricane Sandy
Watchdog with Paul MuschickThe state Public Utility Commission issued a report today to state lawmakers about how electric companies performed during Hurricane Sandy. Overall, the commission gave utilities high marks, but suggested areas for improvement. Utilities turned to... -
Airlines and Irene
Consumer File - Orlando SentinelFrom a recent study…… Average call hold times of ten largest airlines during Hurricane Irene (hours:minutes:seconds) 1. U.S. Airways 0:02:38 2. Southwest Airlines: 0:08:10 3. Continental: 0:08:15 4. United ... -
Hot as heck last year, says feds.
Planet Florida - Orlando SentinelNOAA: 2010 Tied For Warmest Year on Record According to NOAA scientists, 2010 tied with 2005 as the warmest year of the global surface temperature record, beginning in 1880. This was the 34th consecutive year with global... -
Part 1: Antoine's next course
Tribune senior correspondentThe maitre d' is dead. He perished at home, along with his son, sometime after the levees broke and the floodwaters rushed in and his tiny house in northern New Orleans filled to the ceiling with fetid water. Most of the rest of the restaurant's staff...Tags: Restaurants, Dining and Drinking, Rentals, Mardi Gras, Corporate Officers
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Still adrift after the storm
First Hurricane Katrina took John Hoffmann Jr.'s home, which flooded, then exploded, and then burned. Next the storm took Hoffmann's job of 23 years washing dishes at Antoine's Restaurant, a position that vanished when the heavily damaged New Orleans...Tags: Personal Data Collection, Theft, Bodies of Water, Interior Policy, Rentals
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Insurance stalls revival
There were 11,256 bottles of wine in the cellar of Antoine's Restaurant on the morning of Aug. 29 when Hurricane Katrina struck, some of them rare, most of them expensive and all of them ruined when the power failed, the air conditioning died and the...Tags: Premature Birth, Renovation, Floods, Bodies of Water, Rentals
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Suspicions fire racial tensions
Gina Blandin has a theory about what caused the flooding disaster that befell New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina struck last August, an idea that has little to do with engineering studies or physical evidence and everything to do with the poisonous...Tags: Engineering, Ku Klux Klan, Politics, Houston Chronicle, Social Issues
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Reopening Night
Scaffolding still surrounds a huge hole in the southeast wall, the staff is a shadow of its former size, only two of 15 sprawling dining rooms are functioning, half the specialty dishes have been lopped off the menu and there was a last-minute scramble to...Tags: Restaurants, Dining and Drinking, Hurricane Katrina (2005), Mardi Gras, Restaurant and Catering Industry
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Workers' plea: Gimme shelter
Home for Chuck Wonycott these days is a cramped metal bunk with a thin foam mattress deep in the bowels of an old merchant marine ship docked at the Port of New Orleans. His closet is a narrow locker. His dining room is the ship's mess hall. His...Tags: Restaurants, Rentals, Career and Workplace, Unemployment Rate, French Bread
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The Big Uneasy
The lavish Carnival banquets already are under way at Antoine's Restaurant, the parading clubs are finalizing their ornate processions and the reviewing stands are in place along St. Charles Avenue. Everything, in other words, looks to be ready for the...Tags: Restaurants, Dining and Drinking, Minority Groups, Festive Events, Mardi Gras
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New uneasiness settles on broken city
The food, a timeless presentation of French gourmet classics, is as savory as ever. The service is attentive and flawless. The dining rooms, freshly polished and filled with historical artifacts, promise a luxuriant meal. The veteran waiters are hard at...Tags: Restaurants, Dining and Drinking, Renovation, Customs and Tradition, Mercedes-Benz Superdome
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Rugby-Wellington Hurricanes 12 Waikato Chiefs 17 - Super Rugby result
ReutersWELLINGTON, May 17 (Reuters) - Waikato Chiefs (New Zealand) 17 beat Wellington Hurricanes (New Zealand) 12 (halftime 12-9) in their Super Rugby match at Wellington Regional Stadium on Friday. Scorers: Waikato Chiefs - Try: Tanerau Latimer; Penalties:...Tags: New Zealand, Wellington (New Zealand), Natural Disasters
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