Sentences with phrase «hurricane irene»

When Hurricane Irene pounded toward Puerto Rico this summer, Royal Caribbean and Carnival cruise ships stranded hundreds of travelers in San Juan.

I don't know all the details of your case, but I'd like to point out that travel insurance is designed to cover a wide range of unforeseen events, and Hurricane Irene became a foreseeable event on August 22.

When in fact the island was hit by hurricane Irene, the Representatives at Travel Guard told me I was not insured for money spent on plane tickets or anything other than the house rental.

Due to Hurricane Irene, Atlantic City was being evacuated.

Last year, well over 100 passengers were stranded in San Juan, Puerto Rico when their cruise ship got orders to get out to avoid oncoming Hurricane Irene.

Hurricane Irene washed out NC 12, the road to the island, at the end of August.

Many travelers had a bad experience trying to get to re-opened areas of the Outer Banks after Hurricane Irene in 2011.

Last year, after Hurricane Irene passed, the only way for travelers to get to Hatteras, North Carolina was by ferry — but the ferries were completely full!

my trip was cancelled due to hurricane irene.

When hurricane Irene showed up we were FORCED (we live in mandatory evac site) to leave our home.

Our trip to Peru was cancelled due to hurricane Irene leading to Newark int.

Hurricane Irene that devastated parts of Vermont in 2011 brought the need for flood and hurricane coverage to the forefront of many renters and homeowners» minds, and the proximity of Burlington to Lake Champlain makes the peril of flooding likely.

Represented shorefront property owner in its application to the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection for a permit to rebuild a house damaged by Hurricane Irene.

The insured's claims, which involved losses allegedly caused by Hurricane Irene, power interruption, and copper thefts, were denied on summary judgment on the grounds that the damages claimed were fraudulently inflated and exacerbated by the actions of the insured.

The claims, which involved losses allegedly caused by Hurricane Irene, power interruption, and copper thefts, were denied on the grounds that the damages claimed were fraudulently inflated and exacerbated by the actions of the insured.

NHC director Bill Read stated in a interview this week that had Hurricane Irene come along before the recent improvements in track forecasting, hurricane warnings would have been issued for the entire Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina coasts.

The flooding that resulted from Hurricane Irene followed a week later by tropical rains that re-flooded farms in NY and VT was devastating.

Common concerns are fighting for GMO labeling in VT, reducing and cleaning up plastics, composting, and restoring the riparian zone damaged by Hurricane Irene.

WASHINGTON — Unless Hurricane Irene interrupts his travel, renowned NASA climate scientist James Hansen will join demonstrators today at the White House to protest the controversial Keystone XL pipeline.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said 2.4 million households in his state were without power Tuesday, twice the number left in the dark by Hurricane Irene last year.

The previous record was for a 25 - foot wave kicked up by Hurricane Irene in 2011.

If you thought the flooding in the northeast in the wake of Hurricane Irene and subsequent storms dropping heavy rain, thank your lucky stars you're not in Pakistan.

Are East Coast Cities Prepared for Impacts of Hurricane Irene?

In October, Hurricane Irene and extreme weather, strengthened by global warming, destroyed hundreds of pumpkin patches in the Northeast, posing a near existential threat to Halloween celebrations.

More on Hurricanes 18 Resources For Preparing and Responding to Hurricanes Hurricane Irene Heading to East Coast & New York (LIVE - ish Blog)

A small town in upstate New York rallies in the face of environmental disaster I was away from home on Aug. 29, 2011, when Hurricane Irene cut a devastating path inland through New York state and into Vermont, leaving a deep, impassable ditch across my road, south of Woodstock, N.Y..

With events like Hurricane Irene, the Texas drought and the Midwest floods, 2011 has already set a record for billion dollar weather disasters.

«Devastating floods like those caused in upstate New York by the remnants of Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee are among the climate change effects predicted in a new report written by 50 scientists and released Wednesday by the state's energy research agency,» the Associated Press reported on November 16.

Only a year ago, they point out, the city shut down the subway system and ordered the evacuation of 370,000 people as Hurricane Irene barreled up the Atlantic coast.

Last year, the prospect of Hurricane Irene reaching landfall in Manhattan caused the city's mayor to mandate the first complete shutdown of the city's mass transit system, bringing the Big Apple to a near standstill.

NOAA research flights have already provided researchers with dozens of radar case studies of tropical storms and hurricanes, including Hurricane Irene.

«During Hurricane Irene, for example, the word «threat» was used much more often within climate tweets,» the authors write, «suggesting that climate change may be perceived as a bigger threat than the hurricane itself.»

Last year highly unusual Hurricane Irene devastated large parts of the US eastern seaboard with estimated damage of $ 15.6 billion.

Two recent events contrast existing vulnerability to extreme events: Hurricane Irene, which produced a broad swath of very heavy rain (greater than five inches in total and sometimes two to three inches per hour in some locations) from southern Maryland to northern Vermont from August 27 to 29, 2011; and Hurricane Sandy, which caused massive coastal damage from storm surge and flooding along the Northeast coast from October 28 to 30, 2012.

Hurricane Irene is very likely to be the 10th billion - dollar disaster of 2011, breaking 2008's record for number of billion - dollar disasters a year, according to preliminary estimates.

Dr. Ryan Maue does an excellent fisking of Bill Nye's TV performance / science regarding Hurricane Irene.

The predictions of alarmist scientists are frequently hysterical, and most often wrong, as was globally witnessed with the Hurricane Irene forecasts.

And, true to form, climate change is being blamed for super storm Sandy, as well as last year's hurricane Irene.

The United States has suffered from a record number of billion dollar natural disasters this year, from the Mississippi and Missouri River flooding to Hurricane Irene and the Texas drought.

North Carolina experienced seven billion - dollar weather events in 2011 and 2012, including Hurricane Irene and Superstorm Sandy.

One thing that does seem clear is that warmer oceans (a la global warming) mean more evaporation, and that likely leads to storms with more and more dangerous rainfall of the kind we saw with Hurricane Irene last year.

The storm could exceed the impacts of Hurricane Irene, in August 2011, which brought record rainfall and cost nearly $ 10 billion in damage.

Global warming's heavy cost — According to the hysterical Methodist alarmist, Bill McKibben, hurricane Irene is a result of global warming.

6:49 p.m. Updated The video of Hurricane Irene above was shot by astronauts aboard the International Space Station, 230 miles overhead.

Here's a fresh view showing how computer simulations are converging on a disastrous trajectory for Hurricane Irene, which is almost assuredly bound for the densely populated corridor from Washington, D.C., through New York City:

Roger A. Pielke, Jr., of the University of Colorado, who has spent years analyzing hurricane damage patterns, noted that a tool he helped create to anticipate hurricane damage projects a substantial risk of big losses from Hurricane Irene:

The National Hurricane Center's final 3 - day projected track for Hurricane Irene keeps the powerful storm centered on the populous metropolitan corridor from the suburbs of Washington, D.C., through New York City — showing the storm still maintaining hurricane strength as it approaches the New York coastline.

The damage from storms like Sandy — and Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee, which all caused devastating flooding in northeastern states --- was, and continues to be, so severe and complex that two years later recovery efforts are still underway.

(In the last few days, the trend in storm tracks for Hurricane Irene has been ever more to the east, leading to a chance the storm will end up skirting the East Coast.

For instance, after flooding from Hurricane Irene washed out many culverts in Vermont last year, many towns built bigger culverts to handle future floods.