Australia introduced sweeping new gun laws after 35 people in Port Arthur, Tasmania, were shot dead in 1996.
The 32-year-old was riding along a forest road near historic Port Arthur when he collided with a four-wheel-drive vehicle.
For a longer-term solution, they decided to send a catering rig from food services company Aramark to Port Arthur.
Incredibly, the video was of Valero's (nyse: VLI - news - people ) 250, 000-barrels-a-day Port Arthur refinery.
That morning, 56 calls had come in from employees at Port Arthur.
As if that wasn't enough, there was Port Arthur to deal with.
He attended an all-black high school growing up in Port Arthur, Texas, where he still remembers what it was like to be a minority.
He was riding a bicycle along a road near historic Port Arthur when he collided with a four-wheel drive vehicle at 1240 local time.
They had just received news that the Port Arthur refinery, near Rita's landfall, had sustained major damage to two cooling towers and a flaring stack.
Incredibly, the video was of Valero's 250, 000-barrels-a-day Port Arthur refinery.
The main road to the Tasman Peninsula, south-east of Hobart, has been cut off, stranding thousands of people, many of them tourists in the historic site of Port Arthur.
Motiva Enterprises' new 325, 000-barrel-per-day (bpd) crude distillation unit at its Port Arthur, Texas, refinery will likely not be repaired before Friday or Saturday, sources familiar with operations said on Tuesday.
In 1904, the Russian Fleet took heavy losses when the Japanese fleet blocked them as they were trying to escape from Port Arthur in the battle of the Yellow Sea, part of the Russian-Japanese War.
The command center was reassured that despite some flooding, most Port Arthur homes had weathered the storm well, and the 40 families sheltered at the nearby Rayburn Country Resort would likely be able to return soon.
The list of towns which have been hit by such tragedies comes readily to mind - Hungerford, Port Arthur, Dunblane - with dozens more incidents where the death toll is not large enough to confer such notoriety.
The offsetting of refinery shutdowns in the Northeast by, for instance, the expansion of Motiva Enterprises a joint venture between Shell (RDS.A) and Saudi Refining of its Port Arthur, Texas refinery to 600, 000 barrels a day, may also help prevent supply-constraint driven gasoline prices spikes.
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