General news: September 2008 Archives

Here are my notes from the Mayor's news conference Sunday. Lots of info in somewhat random order.....

Mayor Abramson took to the podium at 5:12pm in the Mayor's Gallery, calling the windstorm "significant" and "horrendous."

Three times more families lost power in the Ike wind storm than compared with the power outages after the devastating 1974 tornados in Louisville.

LGandE: 237,000 customers without power - 60% of c...

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I have spent the last week and a half covering the Gustav evacuees. During that time I have gotten to know many of them by name and hear their stories. Some of their experiences are heartbreaking and inspiring.
I know there were some arrests at the Expo Center and toward the end, stress was beginning to get the best of some of the evacuees. But I have to say, it was a room filled with a good number of resilient, positive, and kind peo...

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