Over the coast range, up and down the shore, the evening was a pea souper, the mini-fjords at the mouths of the Navarro and Albion rivers glimpsed through gauze.
Tempers are running high over the Coast Guard's belated effort to recover thousands of old batteries, containing toxic materials, which it dumped between the 1920s and the 1970s in waterways all over the country.
As we flew here today, I also asked the pilot to fly over the Gulf Coast region so I could see firsthand the scope and magnitude of the devastation.
Given the continuing row over the West Coast mainline franchise, and some strong criticism about the level of public subsidy to the railways, this will be a hot topic.
Why prioritise that line over the West Coast mainline, wondered committee member Lucy Powell.
On the return trip from his ranch in Crawford, Texas, Air Force One flew over the Gulf Coast.
The force was engaged over the Kent coast by Defiants, Hurricanes and Spitfires.
The Transport Committee (at 10am) still has its teeth firmly sunk into the debacle over the West Coast Main Line.
You can only imagine Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin's reaction when he discovered there had been a catastrophic cock-up over the West Coast franchise.
We took over the west coast, which was 30 year old track, 30 year old trains, that was almost completely run, run down and not, not performing.
The target distance of 22 miles was now within sight for MacCready's team, which brought the Albatross over to the English coast ready for the prize attempt on June 12, 1979.
They are believed to be 60 million to 80 million years old, made of sand pushed inland over the eons from the coast by Atlantic Ocean winds that sweep onshore 80 kilometers to the west.
Rachel Weisz (the scientist who designs Cross's meds) puts on a wig and glasses making her look even more like a nerdy scientist and nobody at JFK airport recognizes her, even though there is an APB for a nerdy scientist out all over the East Coast.
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Patrick's Day last year, was again making the holiday a jumping-off point for an extended trip to the U.S., with stops in Washington and on the West Coast over the ensuing several days.
Franklin Electric's chief financial officer, John Haines, said the company had shipped nine truckloads of water pumps to the East Coast over the past week and may ship more this week, weather permitting.
Globs of thick, gooey petroleum have washed ashore along the south Louisiana coast over the past week, landing on beaches and washing into marsh reeds.
"It was amazing to be flying so fast over the forest, with the coast off to the horizon -- something I'll never forget!"
He is trying to use the disaster to bypass co-operatives, whose priority rights over fishing along the coast, he claims, often put off private enterprise.
That the storm gathered strength in the Gulf over the weekend and hit the coast early on Monday could also have limited trading activity--there might have been more trading had the storm gathered strength and remained headed in an uncertain direction during trading hours.
Judging by the trailer, the same level of detail that was brought to Liberty City will be carried over to the west coast.
The area where the oil was found lies over 248 miles off the coast of New Orleans and is one of the newest discoveries in the Gulf since it opened for business again in March, post-BP oil spill of 2010.
If the storm does strengthen to hurricane strength and move up the Florida west coast or over the west half of the Florida Peninsula hangering aircraft will be a necessity.
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Then the market went strange, gold was all over the place, Sandy hit the coast etc. and the trades went bad.
But before I get started, given what has happened over the past few days on the coast, I just want to take a few moments to say that our thoughts and prayers are with everyone affected by Hurricane Sandy.
Palo Alto Online reports that California highway 92, which starts at Half Moon Bay on the Pacific Coast and runs east over the Santa Cruz mountains, this morning was lined with hundreds of parked cars moved by coastal residents trying to keep their vehicles out of the way of any damaging waves.
FORBES: Some Flee Northern California Coast After Tsunami Warning
Nasa says its six-tonne UARS satellite plunged to Earth over the Pacific Ocean, off the US west coast.
GDP, and the west-coast ports carry over half of the cargo that is shipped in and out of America in containers.
One of three civil servants suspended over flaws in the West Coast Main Line franchise competition has criticised the Department for Transport.
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Geologists think the Monterey Shale, which stretches from the coast near Santa Barbara clear over to the San Joaquin Valley, holds 15 billion barrels.
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