Visiting europe in the summer months will present greater targets for terrorists planning attacks in public locations, especially at large events. The alert notes that europe will host the european soccer championship from june 10 through july 10 in many cities and venues. It will host also the Catholic Churchs world youth day in krakow between july 26 and july 31st. 2. 5 million visitors are expected to attend that. The alert cautions that the local polish infrastructure will be challenged with such a huge crowd. Despite polands plan to impose border controls at all crossings. State Department Spokesman john kirby said there is no specific threat which led to todays travel alert. He tried to tamp down any alarmism about it. We issue alerts all the time that arent based on specific credible attacks. I think we would and should come under a greater scrutiny if we had not issued a travel alert as the summer begins there in europe. We absolutely dont want to discourage travel or tourism t
Christopher “Chris” Lowery
Chris was born and raised in Tracy, CA and moved to Manteca in 1996.
Early in life, Chris showed a unique aptitude for taking apart, fixing, and putting back together any piece of machinery (his mother feared for her clocks and toasters!).
Chris started his plumbing career working for Bud’s plumbing. In the mid 1990’s he started his own business, Lowery’s Plumbing. He worked the business for several years performing service and repair and new construction. He then went to work for American Construction as a plumber and after two decades he was running multiple commercial construction projects.