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Rescue workers searched through the night Thursday into Friday to attempt to find residents presumed to be in the rubble and mangled debris of the massive Miami condo collapse. As of midnight on June 25, 2021, 99 residents of the Champlain Towers South remain unaccounted for despite intensive ongoing search and rescue efforts. The possibility does exist that at least some of the 99 missing residents were not in the building at the time of the collapse. With that said,…

With some regularity, we see and hear media reports about the state of the infrastructure system in the United States. Roads and bridges are in dangerous condition, in need of repair or replacement. The stark reality is that natural gas pipelines across the United States are in desperate need of upgrade or reconfiguration. Every year, aged or improperly installed pipelines result in gas explosion accidents that cause major property damage as well as serious and even fatal injuries. The major…

“Textured-Surface” Breast Implants and Cancer Each year thousands of women undergo breast implant surgery for a variety of reasons, with many such implant operations performed following mastectomy for breast cancer. In these operations, a pouch roughly the shape of the patient’s natural breast and containing saline, silicon or some other substance is inserted into the cavity left by the removed breast tissue and the remaining natural skin is over-sewn to recreate the normal size and shape of the breast. Regardless…

“Adverse Weather Conditions” and Truck Accidents As I write this post, I have one eye on the television reports of the damages in Florida and Alabama caused by Hurricane Sally. Many side roads and city streets are completely under water and portions of Interstate 10 are closed due to water accumulation and high wind. In fact, there has been a report of a semi truck that was overturned by high winds on the I-10 freeway near Pensacola. Thankfully, no injuries…

Bodies of Four Seamen Killed in Corpus Christi Explosion Recovered The Corpus Christi Caller-Times is reporting that the U.S. Coast Guard and private salvage drivers have recovered the bodies of all four seamen killed in last Friday’s (August 21st) sinking of the dredging vessel Waymon L. Boyd. The Boyd was lost after it struck an underwater pipeline near the intersection of Lantana and Up River Road, caught fire, and sank in the adjacent shipping channel. The accident occurred shortly before…