Hurricane

No Hurricane Worries? Not So Fast

Joseph B. Treaster | Posted 12.21.2009 | Green

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Joseph B. Treaster

Here's the bad news about the quiet, almost peaceful hurricane season in 2009: Right away, people start thinking this is the norm. They start to relax and maybe even make fun of hurricanes.

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Judge: Hurricane Katrina Flooding Was Caused By Army Corps Of Engineers' Negligence

AP | CAIN BURDEAU | Posted 11.19.2009 | Home

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NEW ORLEANS — A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the Army Corps of Engineers' failure to properly maintain a navigation channel led to massive...

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New Jersey Gov Declares State of Emergency

Joe Territo | Posted 11.16.2009 | New York

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Joe Territo

New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine this past weekend declared a state of emergency in six counties slammed by a nor’easter from hurricane remnants and ...

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Hurricane Rick: Storm Becomes Category 5 Hurricane Off Mexico

AP | Posted 10.18.2009 | World

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MIAMI — Forecasters say Hurricane Rick is the strongest hurricane in the eastern north Pacific Ocean in more than a decade. The U.S. National H...

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12 Ways The World Could Be Destroyed

James Altucher | Posted 11.23.2009 | Business

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James Altucher

We live in a world of nightmares. But understanding these worries -- the myriad ways the world could end -- and hedging against them is the way to turn the fear into greed, the nightmare into a dream.

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Mexico Tries To Evacuate Thousands Ahead Of Jimena

AP | MARK STEVENSON | Posted 10.17.2009 | World

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LOS CABOS, Mexico — Heavy winds, battering waves and intense rain pummeled residents and tourists in this vacation resort as dangerous Hurricane...

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Hurricane Jimena 2009

Huffington Post | Posted 10.16.2009 | Green

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UPDATE: 9/3/09, 9:18 AM EST LOS CABOS, Mexico (AP) - Hurricane Jimena pounded the middle of Mexico's Baja California Peninsula on Wednesday after la...

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Hurricane Erika 2009

Huffington Post | Posted 09.23.2009 | Green

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Tropical Storm Danny 2009

Huffington Post | Posted 09.23.2009 | Green

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AP Update: Aug. 28, 07:49 a.m. EST Forecasters say Tropical Storm Danny has weakened over the Atlantic and is barely a tropical storm. But a tr...

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Hurricane Bill 2009

Huffington Post | Posted 09.18.2009 | Green

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UPDATE 8/21 (1:50 PM EST) -- From The AP: MIAMI - Hurricane Bill has weakened to a Category 2 storm over the Atlantic as it nears Bermuda on track to...

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Hurricane Claudette 2009

Huffington Post | Posted 09.17.2009 | Green

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Claudette became the first tropical storm to hit the U.S. mainland this year when it made landfall in the Florida Panhandle early Monday, August 17, ...

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Destroying Levees In Louisiana...On Purpose

NYT | Posted 07.23.2009 | Green

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In what experts are calling the biggest levee-busting operation ever in North America, the brothers plan to return the muddy river to its ancient floo...

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A Visit to Bangladeshi Regions Hit by Cyclone Aila

Nilopar Uddin | Posted 07.10.2009 | Living

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Nilopar Uddin

The raging floodwaters which have submerged the wells across the country have made the water undrinkable. However, some people have became so desperately thirsty that they have resorted to drinking the floodwater and are suffering from diarrhea and dysentery.

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Hurricane Hell: How To Start Picking Up The Pieces

abcnews.com | Emily Friedman | Posted 10.17.2008 | Living

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When Galveston, Texas, resident Martin Carroll returned home to assess the damage left by Hurricane Ike, what he discovered was devastating. "It don'...

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Sheltering Animals from the Storm

Michael Markarian | Posted 10.16.2008 | Politics

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Michael Markarian

Led by Senators Ted Stevens and Frank Lautenberg, and Reps. Tom Lantos and Chris Shays, the PETS Act set national policy on how to deal with animals in disasters in a post-Katrina environment.

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How Mean Can the Bush Administration Be?

Blake Fleetwood | Posted 10.09.2008 | Politics

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Blake Fleetwood

The Bush administration has offered $100,000 worth of aid to hurricane-battered Cuba; this is but a pittance compared to what is needed by one of our closest neighbors. Someone should remind Bush that the Cold War is over.

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Keys residents weigh evacuation, Gulf Coast next?

AP | BRIAN SKOLOFF | Posted 10.08.2008 | Home

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KEY WEST, Fla. — With powerful Hurricane Ike on an uncertain course toward the Gulf of Mexico, many on these low-lying islands took a wait-and-s...

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In the Wake of Katrina, Gustav...

Carl Pope | Posted 10.05.2008 | Politics

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Carl Pope

As the Gulf Coast picks itself up after Gustav, and the Atlantic coast gets ready for Hannah, Ike, and Josephine, I'm going to fall back on the adage ...

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After Gustav: Where's the Home in Homeland?

Linda Cronin-Gross | Posted 10.05.2008 | Green

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Linda Cronin-Gross

One would think that the relatively new federal department, Homeland Security, would be doing its best to defend our homes, to keep us where our heart and hearth reside.

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Gustav Raises The Question (Again): Is New Orleans Worth It?

AP | LARA JAKES JORDAN | Posted 10.03.2008 | Green

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WASHINGTON — Those who love New Orleans say Hurricane Gustav is proof that the billions of dollars spent to protect the city and bring it back t...

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Framing Sarah Palin

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.02.2008 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

Democrats should stay away from the baby stories. They must resist the urge to comment at all on it. Let the media do the muckraking.

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Gustav and Wild Turkey: New Orleans Hurricane Update by My Friend Jim Gabour

Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 09.30.2008 | Living

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Vivian Norris de Montaigu

"It has been three years and a day since Katrina violated this city. We are not yet safe, and the world has tired of our story."

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Superdelegates, Obama, Robber Drag Queens, New Orleans and the "Old White Guy," John McCain

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 05.27.2008 | Politics

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Georgianne Nienaber

You would think that all of Bush's follies in New Orleans would guarantee that the Crescent City would vote Democratic this November. Don't be too sure.

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Humberto The 'Instant Hurricane' Was Fastest-Growing Storm On Record

AP | JUAN A. LOZANO and MATT SEDENSKY | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

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Call it the instant hurricane. Humberto, which grew faster than any storm on record from tropical depression to full-scale hurricane landfall, surpris...

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