Archive for July 21st, 2008

tropical storm dolly - national hurricane center

Tropical storm Dolly will be making landfall over the Yucatan Peninsula near Punta Allen, Mexico late Sunday night. “Tropical storm Dolly” watches are in effect for parts of the Yucatan. But bigger problems come into play as the Tropical storm Dolly moves into the Gulf.
As tropical storm Dolly emerges into the Gulf of Mexico, this […]

wachovia wholesale mortgage implode

We are hearing about the shutdown of wachovia wholesale mortgage operations, with a Press Release due out at 1:00pm EDT. This morning, we received the following:
“Wachovia wholesale is shutting down today. Press release at 1PM.”
“All us reps were told this morning by top managment that wholesale will be completely shutdown by August 31st and a […]

houston deep south crane and rigging accident kills 4 victims

Deadly crane accident in the making today at Houston, Texas. A crane collapsed leading to the death of 4 workers during a routine maintenance at a chemical plant.
As many as 4,500 people, including thousands of contract workers, were at the plant at the time of the “crane accident“.
“Periodically, we take our operating units down to […]