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You also probably don't need to worry about hurricanes in New York, but it's an annual concern in Florida.

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[There is still significant uncertainty and scientific debate about hurricanes in a warming world.]

Being outside the hurricane belt, you don't have to worry about hurricanes in the fall ruining your plans.

He adds, «There has been a lot of news about hurricanes in the Caribbean and earthquakes in Mexico.

I suppose I would have to worry about hurricanes in Florida, but at least I wouldn't be cold and I wouldn't have to shovel.

Even the scientists arguing for a climate connection tended to underscore that they weren't talking about Katrina but, rather, about hurricanes in general.

Not exact matches

By Aug. 31, Home Depot had sent about 700 truckloads of supplies to its Texas stores in the path of the hurricane.

Burt Flickinger, managing director of retail consultancy Strategic Resource Group estimates it cost the retailer about $ 50 million to deal with hurricanes Rita and Katrina in 2005 and expects Harvey's costs to top that.

When the social scientist and derivatives trader sat down at the same table at a friend's wedding in 2011, they got to talking about their shared interest in «epic failures,» like the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the Fukushima nuclear disaster and Hurricane Sandy.

The slow - moving storm's center was in the Gulf of Mexico about 70 miles (150 km) southeast of downtown Houston by Tuesday evening and Harvey was expected to move inland again early Wednesday, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center.

«This story is about the tens of thousands of people who have lost their homes and their livelihoods,» he wrote in his blog post, «Recovering from Hurricane Irma.»

One person in particular who has been quite vocal about the hurricane is Virgin Group founder Richard Branson.

Adding a million users every day in the week that Hurricane Harvey was active and still at the top of the charts, Moore says that the company has learned a great deal about what is required to support rapid growth, especially in urgent situations.

Hurricane Jose, moving west - northwest and last located about 415 miles off the Northern Leeward Islands, was updated to an «extremely dangerous» Category 4 storm and is expected in the northeastern Caribbean on Saturday.

The storm activity comes after Hurricane Harvey claimed about 60 lives and caused property damage estimated at as much as $ 180 billion in Texas and Louisiana.

American Airlines CEO Doug Parker speaks with CNBC's Phil LeBeau about the company's outlook and what they are doing in Puerto Rico following the devastation from Hurricane Maria.

Adweek applauded Duracell's «Island Without Power» ad talking about Puerto Rico's struggles in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, saying,» «Island Without Power» is an example of a brand doing activism right in the wake of political upheaval and natural disaster in a year when many brands got it very wrong.»

With President Trump and the mayor of San Juan in a war of words this weekend over the relief efforts in hurricane - battered Puerto Rico and a stream of harrowing images coming out of the island and its neighbors in the Caribbean, it's easy to feel gloomy about the response to the disaster.

Given the approach American political leadership has taken to the aftermath of the devastation in Puerto Rico, Musk provided a rare a glimmer of hope when he talked about rebuilding the destroyed electrical grid using solar power — though some have argued that his comments in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria may serve as a distraction from the enormous challenges the island faces.

The hurricane is about 35 miles (55 km) southeast of San Juan, Puerto Rico with maximum sustained winds of 155 miles per hour (250 km per hour), the NHC said, adding that it is moving in a north - westerly direction at 10 mph (17 km / h).

The strong Santa Ana winds — reaching near hurricane force — have helped the fire spread across over 60,000 acres, mostly in Ventura County, which is about 70 miles outside of LA.

Stanley Holdorf, an NLG attorney, told me, «There are a sufficiently large number of discrepancies and inconsistencies to raise credible concerns about the veracity of TDCJ claims that these photos and video were, in fact, shot on a single day in hurricane - affected units post-Harvey.»

Add in Hurricanes Jose and Maria, and the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season is estimated to have inflicted about $ 200 billion worth of damage.

But there is something profoundly troubling about speculators in Puerto Rican debt reaping windfalls even as estimates of hurricane damage are revised up, tax reform legislation undermines Puerto Rican competitiveness, out - migration increases, political cleavages increase, layoffs from the public sector are set to increase and outside observers become more pessimistic about Puerto Rico's economic prospects.

The storm was particularly costly for the agriculture industry: «In a matter of hours, Hurricane Maria wiped out about 80 percent of the crop value in Puerto Rico,» the New York Times reportIn a matter of hours, Hurricane Maria wiped out about 80 percent of the crop value in Puerto Rico,» the New York Times reportin Puerto Rico,» the New York Times reports.

People in Palm Beach stopped talking about the local destruction the Madoff storm caused only when Hurricane Trump came along.

Smith points to the threats the pipeline poses to British Columbia's tourism industry, rising floodwaters in Bangladesh and the Maldives, drought in sub-Saharan Africa and Mexico, the homes that will be lost in future forest fires, respiratory health impacts in communities from Vancouver to Kamloops and Quesnel, and future hurricanes in the Caribbean and Gulf states as climate impacts that are left out of the narrative about the project.

For example, the largest storm surge recorded before Katrina was about 22 feet, during Hurricane Camille in 1969.

They thought about canceling it after the hurricane, but decided to do it anyhow, fitting it in between work and volunteering at the relief center.

«Given the substantial amounts of taxpayer dollars that will be invested in Puerto Rico for rebuilding after Hurricane Maria, these findings raise grave concerns about PREPA's ability to competently negotiate, manage, and implement critical infrastructure projects without significant independent oversight,» they wrote in a memo Monday to committee chair Rep. Rob Bishop (R - UT).

She's been on phone calls with partners in Puerto Rico twice a day since the hurricane hit checking in with them and has begun to hear worry about what will happen when portable water and food runs out.

An administrative law judge will hold a multi-day hearing in January about a state move to revoke the license of a Hollywood, Fla., nursing home where residents died after Hurricane Irma.

It's quite a daunting challenge, given that the average hurricane's wind energy equals about half of the world's electricity production in a year.

JONESBORO, Ark. (AP)-- Arkansas State has sued Miami and is seeking $ 650,000 in damages for failing to reschedule the football game in Jonesboro that was canceled in September because of concerns about Hurricane Irma.

And those who wish to think about the government's responsibility and actions in the hurricane - damaged parts of Florida or Texas or Virgin Islands or Puerto Rico or Cuba or elsewhere in the Caribbean, this program is for you.

Last week, when I heard my colleagues talking about Hurricane Harvey, I did not think much of it beyond the typical flood warnings that come with any bout of heavy rain in Houston.

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The fiercest hurricane to hit the U.S. in more than a decade came ashore late Friday about 30 miles (48 kilometers) northeast of Corpus Christi as a mammoth Category 4 storm with 130 mph (209 kph) winds.

Scott West, co-owner of Tom West Blueberries in Ocoee, talks about the 2018 harvest after recovering from Hurricane Irma, Thursday, April 26, 2018.

Hurricane Katrina, in 2005, caused $ 160 billion in damage, and the remnants of Hurricane Sandy in 2012 caused about $ 70 billion in damage, according to inflation - adjusted figures provided by the federal government.

The three major hurricanes that struck in August and September and the continuing effects of the pilot dispute combined to depress revenue by about $ 40 million last quarter, according to Spirit's management.

This Friday December 29th at 6:00 PM members of more than two dozen New York City and other community groups who are seriously concerned about the situation in Puerto Rico, now that more than 100 days have passed since the devastation that hurricane Maria brought to the island, will converge on the south side of Union Square to have their voices heard.

And in crisis — notably during Puerto Rico's 2017 bankruptcy, and the federal response to the devastation of the island by Hurricane Maria — the inequality of Puerto Rico is often exposed, and questions are asked again about the Jones Act.

There were several possible catalysts suggested for this spike in concerns about a favorable outcome of the debt ceiling negotiation, which has to be concluded ahead of the Treasury's X Date, now expected as early as October 1: some cited Steven Mnuchin's interview on CNBC, in which the Treasury Secretary said that the additional spending needed to help Texas recover from Hurricane Harvey may reduce the amount of time Congress has to increase the federal debt limit; another possibility was month - end liquidity needs and relative positioning across the curve.

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Initially, investors were skeptical about any further tightening of monetary policy in coming months, amid escalating tensions between North Korea and the United States, further soft inflation data and uncertainty about the potentially negative effects of hurricanes Harvey and Irma on the economy.

«People on TV news shows spoke significantly fewer sentences about Hurricane Maria than about Hurricanes Harvey and Irma,» he writes, and «the spike in conversation about Puerto Rico right as the hurricane hit was also much smaller than the spike in mentions of Texas and FloridHurricane Maria than about Hurricanes Harvey and Irma,» he writes, and «the spike in conversation about Puerto Rico right as the hurricane hit was also much smaller than the spike in mentions of Texas and Floridhurricane hit was also much smaller than the spike in mentions of Texas and Florida.»

Stone estimates that before Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico was seeing -2 percent net annual migration: About 1 in every 50 people was leaving every year.

Puerto Ricans in Action's community outreach is focused on raising awareness about Puerto Rico, the effects of Hurricane Maria, which hit on September 20, 2017, and the ways everyone can help.