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Six Flags | Bankrupt
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As Hurricane Idalia caused flooding, some electric vehicles exposed to saltwater caught fire
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As Idalia hit Florida, all of NOAA’s hurricane-hunting planes were grounded
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Hurricane Hilary could dump over a year’s worth of rain on parts of the Southwest US
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Hurricane Hilary is expected to bring significant flooding to Baja California, southern California, and the southwest US
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How Tabasco fills up to 700,000 hot sauce bottles a day | Big Business
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This 100% solar community endured Hurricane Ian with no loss of power and minimal damage
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Photos: Hurricane Ian leaves path of destruction
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Guy on doomed planet mostly concerned with skin color of people in movies
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US civil engineers bent the rules to give New Orleans extra protection from hurricanes
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Hurricanes and typhoons moving 30km closer to coasts every decade for the last forty years
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Climate change will force a new American migration - Life is becoming increasingly untenable in the hardest-hit areas, which could cause millions of people to relocate
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Clouds of mosquitoes have been so thick in southwest Louisiana since Hurricane Laura that they’re killing cattle and horses
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Louisiana’s weak environmental laws are keeping residents in the dark about health risks in the wake of Hurricane Laura's path through dozens of major petrochemical plants and oil refineries
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National Hurricane Center nailed track forecast for Laura within a mile and three days in advance
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Why one expert predicts a major hurricane hitting Houston would be "America's Chernobyl"
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Preparing for the next hurricane: Storm trackers and other survival tools
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The Atlantic hurricane season is off to a record fast start and is likely to get worse
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Floodlines - An eight-part narrative podcast thoroughly reassessing Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, fifteen years later
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Bahamas: Hurricane hell
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The disappearing schools of Puerto Rico: The island's vicious cycle of poor governance, neglect by Washington, and environmental catastrophe
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Bahamas death toll from Hurricane Dorian reaches thirty, with thousands still missing; 70,000 people in need of food, water or shelter; and estimated $7 billion in damage
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The wreckage left by Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas
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Hurricane Dorian: Storm inches north west, leaving devastation in Bahamas
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Preparing for Hurricane Dorian: Storm trackers and other survival tools
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Worst weather experience?
Since it's the peak of tropical storm season again, this thread is open for all to share stories and thoughts about weather experiences. Not necessarily concerns about climate change, but the...
Since it's the peak of tropical storm season again, this thread is open for all to share stories and thoughts about weather experiences. Not necessarily concerns about climate change, but the incidents you've had personally, and whatever you've learned about preparation, resilience, and recovery.
I'm no longer a Florida resident, but my contacts are blowing up with concern over Hurricane Dorian.
I've been watching the storm on this nifty site, which has great tools and visualisations to satisfy the most avid weather geeks.
Dorian is likely to be another devastating, small-region, high-intensity buzzsaw, like last year's Hurricane Michael, which practically erased towns in the Florida panhandle, or the 1935 Labor Day hurricane. [I'm not really a good person - I'm having more than a little schadenfreude that Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort is near the center of the storm's predicted path. But I'm not the only person who thought of that.]
According to the Insurance Information Institute, Florida has nearly $600 billion dollars of single family housing at risk from a Category 5 hurricane, leaving aside loss of life and injury.
My stories, compressed for those who've read this before
Some of my friends and colleagues have families still recovering from the impacts of 2017's Hurricanes Irma, Harvey, and Maria.
While I had to deal with these storms' impacts to infrastructure professionally, the hurricanes didn't have enormous personal impact. I was mainly supporting friends or covering for colleagues struggling to help family in Texas, Puerto Rico, and the Caribbean Islands. Our house was eight miles from the coast, so we only dealt with a downed tree and other cleanup, a few hours without power, and some blocked roads.
Because I have dumb hobbies, the most extreme weather dangers I ever encountered were while kayaking and canoeing. Five years ago, I was on a guided ocean kayaking trip that ran into an unpredicted storm squall. Perfect blue skies and calm one minute; near darkness, huge waves, practically solid rain, and 40-knot winds the next. The party got scattered all over half a dozen of the 10,000 Islands. I struggled to get off the windward side of a long isle, so the wind banged my kayak into mangroves for an hour, then I was paddling furiously to avoid being swept into the Gulf of Mexico. But we all survived without major harm, the guide managed to reconnect us without calling for rescue, and we arrived at our destination with good stories. I can only imagine what it's like to be exposed to worse conditions in a hurricane.
Up to that time, the most dangerous weather I'd run into was snow and ice storms. When I was a kid, the Blizzard of 1978 left my family stranded, without phones, power or heat, for five days. We had a fireplace, plenty of hardwood, and an ample store of dried and canned provisions, so it felt more like a rustic adventure than the dire situation it could have been. My brother and I thought 10-foot snowdrifts were the greatest fun ever - we spent more time outside than in, "helping" to dig out by making snow forts and tunnels with the neighbors' kids. Of course, it was followed with a spring of chores like putting up half a kilometer of snow fences, learning to drive a 40-hp farm tractor, and setting up a ham radio antenna and generator, as my city-raised parents had come to grasp what rural life really entailed.
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After Katrina, a priceless musical archive was thought lost. It showed up in Torrance
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Hurricane forecasts may be running headlong into the butterfly effect
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The town fighting the climate crisis to stay afloat, one hurricane at at time
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Tropical Storm Barry expected to landfall as hurricane; Mississippi River rising faster than expected
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It takes years to fully recover from big storms like Sandy
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Nearly eight months after Hurricane Michael, Florida Panhandle feels left behind
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Young Puerto Ricans are leaving the island to escape the territory's debt
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Hurricane Center reclassifies Michael to category 5, the first such storm to make landfall since 1992
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Hurricane Michael showed how woefully unprepared the military is for extreme weather
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How Hurricane Michael could affect Florida’s high-stakes midterms
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Photos: What Hurricane Michael’s destruction looks like on the ground
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The aftermath of Hurricane Florence
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South Carolina’s inmates are stuck in Hurricane Florence’s path. Here’s what happened to prisoners who've been abandoned in previous hurricanes.
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Frying Pan Ocean Cam: Hurricane Florence
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Hurricane Florence, worries grow over half dozen nuclear power plants in storm's path
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North Carolina didn't like science on sea levels…so passed a law against it
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Hurricane Florence isn't alone: Four powerful storms seen from space in one day
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Hog farmers scramble to drain waste pools ahead of Hurricane Florence
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South Carolina officials won’t evacuate prison ahead of Hurricane Florence
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Hawaii braces for Hurricane Lane, now a category 5
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Puerto Rican government acknowledges hurricane death toll of 1,427
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Tropical cyclones are forming further from the equator as the planet warms, bringing new regions into the zone of the intense storms including parts of eastern Australia, new research has found
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Recently published study in Nature shows that tropical storms have slowed by 10% over seventy years
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