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Shell said production ramp-ups at each platform will vary, but resumption of the company's Gulf production to prestorm levels may take three to five days.

Shell, BP Resume Gulf Platform Operations Isabel Ordonez 2011

I take out my notebook and write: Vehicle has been abandoned for at least twelve hours, prestorm.

HOUSE RULES JODI PICOULT 2010

The swamp cooler was off again, and the room was sweltering, the humid prestorm air augmented by the sour odor of mingled sweat and breath.

Baby Games Chelsea White 2010

They crossed the main street just in time to avoid a prestorm deluge when an irritable and whitened old possum dumped out a bucket of slops from a second-floor porch into the central stream, barely missing the pair below.

A Corridor in the Asylum 2010

Throughout nearby St. Bernard Parish, where the prestorm population of about seventy thousand now had fallen to less than twenty-five thousand, you could drive along the curving streets of devastated subdivisions and occasionally come upon a ranch home that had been renovated.

The Lampshade Mark Jacobson 2010

The virtual elimination of family child-care shifted demand to more institutional child-care centers, whose numbers also have plummeted from 275 prestorm to 86 today.

Archive 2007-05-01 2007

Returning residents have pushed the population to 76% of its prestorm total of about 455,000.

Grass Roots Put New Orleans Back on Its Feet 2009

An overhauled Federal Emergency Management Agency has made prestorm planning and preparation a top priority in an effort to avoid a repeat of its 2005 mishandling of Katrina.

Gulf Coast Braces for a Bad Storm 2008

Gasoline Refining While refineries along the Gulf Coast escaped significant damage from Hurricane Gustav, power outages in the region could linger for weeks, slowing efforts to bring gasoline production back to prestorm levels.

Power Outages Hamper 2008

Even in Jefferson Parish, the student population is at thirty thousand, down from a prestorm enrollment of fifty-one thousand.

Hurricane Season Neal Thompson 2007