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Motorists and residents left stranded in heavy flood waters had to be rescued with motorboats on Friday as heavy rains poured down on the north eastern part of Oklahoma. More than a dozen roads have been closed off as seven inches of precipitation fell over the counties of Cherokee, Delaware, Rogers, and Mayes. Roads with closures included U.S. Highway 412, U.S. 69 and State Highways 28 and 29.

FEMA has been creating and improving upon disaster housing solutions in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and the highly criticized trailers that caused people to fall ill. The new and improved trailers feature an adhesive with less formaldehyde in them. They also come in several varieties of beige colors. The travel-trailers are also clean and do not have shutters.

President Obama assured everyone on Friday that preparing for Flood Season 2009 is not a complicated thing, but it is critical.

The term, “El Niño,” refers to the unpredictable phenomenon that occurs over the Pacific Ocean that causes a warming trend. This trend makes thunderstorms stronger and increases rainfall over Asia, Australia, and North and South America. When it is an El Niño year, the US typically sees fewer hurricanes make landfall.

Check out this picture of our equipment that was used on the Seabrooke, one of the crabbing boats on the “Deadliest Catch” TV show in Alaska. Standing by the unit is the Captain, Scott Campbell Jr. They used the DH at Seward Ship and Drydock to expedite the coating on their tanks, so they can get out there and get back to crabbing that much faster!