Sentences with phrase «as damage from storms»

These damages often happen off the road including theft and vandalism as well as damage from storms, hurricanes, heavy hail, etc..

Not exact matches

President Donald Trump visited Texas on Tuesday to survey damage from the first major natural disaster to test his leadership in a crisis, as record rainfall from Tropical Storm Harvey lashed Houston and tens of thousands of people fled deluged homes.

As citizens flee for the mainland from the storm damage, output will likely fall and further decelerate the economic recovery.

Homeowners insurance policies can cover minor incidents including a leaking roof and faulty plumbing; and, catastrophic damage, as from a storm.

With this sort of exposure in Naples alone, we can expect damage from Irma in Florida alone to be in the tens of billions if the hurricane hits SW Florida as a Category 4 storm as predicted.

Even as cleanup from this summer's devastating storm continues, fundraising to permanently replace the damaged glass roofs is under way.

As the cleanup from Friday night's storms continued, Cuomo toured Cambridge to see the damage, and announced that the state had mobilized the National Guard to help with downed trees and debris in southern Washington County.

According to a release from the NIC, the compulsory insurance will cover fire and allied perils like flood, earthquake, the collapse of buildings, storm and as well, legal liabilities of an owner or occupier of premises in respect of loss of or damage to property, bodily injury or death suffered by all users of the premises and third parties.

A limited state of emergency was declared in the City of Niagara Falls on Saturday as clean - up from Friday night's damaging storms continued.

The counties — Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie, Genesee, Jefferson, Lewis, Orleans, St. Lawrence and Wyoming — together had more than $ 46.6 million in response costs and infrastructure damage verified as a result of the storm that rocked the region from Nov. 18 - 26, dumping just over seven feet of snow in some areas.

The legislation also provides up to $ 10 million to reimburse Chautauqua, Cattaraugus, and Allegany counties for damages sustained as a result of the severe storms and flooding in July 2015, and for Monroe County for damages resulting from the severe storm of March 2017.

Electric service has been restored to nearly 95 percent of customers affected by Wednesday's winter storm, as crews from Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corp. and mutual aid forces continue to repair damage caused by fallen trees and limbs.

As the clean - up continues in Tompkins County from flooding and storm damage over a week ago the cost

A Puerto Rico dam damaged by heavy rains from Hurricane Maria was in danger of failing, posing a risk to communities downstream, as people across the U.S. territory sought to dig out from the deadly storm.

As the clean - up continues in Tompkins County from flooding and storm damage over a week ago the cost of the damage is being tallied.

The incumbents in the town board race are Peter J. Friedel of West Shokan and Donnie VanBuren of Boiceville, who last ran four years ago as the town was still reeling from major flood damage from tropical storms Irene and Lee, with preparedness and town response the key issues at the time.

Late Friday, Governor Cuomo declared a state of emergency in New York as a precaution and to clear the way for local government to tap state resources in the event of major damage from storms next week.

Though towns and villages have largely completed the storm debris cleanup, with help from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, many residents are still waiting on flood insurance inspectors kept busy with the devastation to the west, said Town Supervisor Scott Russell in early December, as Southold agreed to continue to allow residents to dispose of flood - damaged household belongings through early 2013.

CSEA President Danny Donohue said union members should follow all appropriate safety guidelines as they recover from the storm, which caused widespread flooding, damage to homes, businesses and infrastructure and downed trees and power lines.

In addition, volunteers will give advice about issues arising from storm damage, such as insurance claims, debt deferral, consumer protection issues, landlord - tenant issues and applying for help from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

«Scientists get early look at hurricane damage to Caribbean coral reefs: Storms act as an interesting «natural experiment» — a rare chance for researchers to study how corals recover from disasters.»

Moreover, potential flood defense measures like dikes or sea walls can be included into the calculations as they prevent or mitigate damages from storm surges.

From the earliest days of Hurricane Maria, a Category 5 storm that made landfall in Puerto Rico on September 20, the analysts and staff of PRSN were assessing damage to the network and serving as a vital link in the island's emergency communications, said Elizabeth Vanacore, a PRSN assistant research professor.

In addition to flooding infrastructure due to sea level rise, coastal cities are vulnerable to damage from storm surge, wave action, and / or inundation of their transportation infrastructure such as roadways, ports, bridges, rail, tunnels, shipyards, and navigational aids.

It featured commemorations of the area's history and storm damage such as the insertion in the ceiling of restored planks from the historic Coney Island boardwalk, which was destroyed by Sandy.

This increase in demand — up 58 % since 2009 — combined with antiquated infrastructure has resulted in an increasing number of brownouts and blackouts, such as the one resulting from the 2013 ice storm that caused 27 deaths, loss of power to over a million residents and more than $ 200 million in damages.

That is different from an actual insurance event such as damage from hail or storm winds.

Home insurance (also called building insurance) covers the cost of rebuilding or repairing your home and helps protect you against things that are out of your control, such as damage from natural disasters like storms, floods and bushfires.

Your personal belongings should also be insured against theft or damage from a covered event, such as a storm.

Sarasota households will want to look at comprehensive storm and water damage coverage, as well as different kinds of liability, where owning some breeds of dogs will bump up the Sarasota insurance quotes they receive from insurers.

Much of the island was damaged from the storm, businesses were closed, and the water wasn't as clear as usual.

Sadly, Hurricane Maria's projected path includes the Leeward Islands, which were badly hit by Hurricane Irma, as well as Puerto Rico, which also sustained damage from the recent storm.

the tax will be used for «tourism - related infrastructure» — which can include anything from the upkeep of seaside boulevards or the rebuilding of beaches after they have been damaged in storms, to payment of salaries for extra police man hours during such events as Blanes» famous annual international fireworks festival.

Gunnar Davis is a heavy weapons specialist with an assault rifle as a primary weapon and a pistol for a secondary weapon, while his special abilities include Shockwave which sends a powerful electrical impulse that knocks down enemies; Stasis projects a stasis field that stops time for enemies albeit while simultaneously protecting them from incoming fire, but could still be useful to strategically change position, finding cover or running past a large group of enemies; Barrier creates a protective energy bubble that prevents damage from being received by Gunnar; and Storm hits enemies with a lightning strike.

Kurt Schwitters's Merzbarn granted # 25,000 «lifeline» After suffering considerable damage as a result of the storms that hit North West England earlier this year, Kurt Schwitters's «Merzbarn» at Elterwater, Cumbria, has been granted crucial funding from a Swiss art gallery.

Texas and Louisiana's state humanities councils will receive $ 250,000, and the Texas Cultural Emergency Response Alliance and the Heritage Emergency National Task Force will also get money from the NEH as they continue to assess damage resulting from the storm.

As Kerry Emanuel of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology put it in a email not long ago: «One has to recognize that the human toll from hurricanes results from the most intense wind and rain events; the vast majority of storms do little or no damage.

Sea level rise has already cost governments and private landowners billions of dollars as they have pumped sand onto eroding beaches and repaired the damage from storm surges.

As I wrote while covering the extraordinary flooding damage from Floyd in 1999, «Coast - skirting tropical storms often dump their heaviest load of rain to the north and west of the eye.»

As I read reports about the release of more than 11,000 tons of radiation - laced water into the sea from the damaged nuclear plant in Japan, I recalled reporting I did more than a decade ago on the many uses of silt barriers — essentially curtains suspended in water — to hold back everything from oil slicks to the bursts of polluted runoff flowing into coastal waters from city storm drains after heavy storms (the water can be pumped and treated once the system is not overloaded).

Mid-latitude islands, such as islands in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and off the coast of Newfoundland (St. Pierre et Miquelon), are exposed to impacts from tropical, post-tropical, and extra-tropical storms that can produce storm - surge flooding, large waves, coastal erosion, and (in some winter storms) direct sea ice damage to infrastructure and property.

Apart from the loss of the corals, damage to the tourist industry and fishing, it also increases flood risk, because healthy reefs act as a storm barrier for many islands and low - lying coasts.

As Hurricane Sandy battered the East Coast last month, tens of thousands of landowners with oil and gas leases faced an especially acute concern: would they get help from FEMA if their properties were damaged or destroyed by the storm?

The costs of these disruptions, as well as the physical damage from the storm, are projected to cost the U.S. economy $ 20 billion.

The ice sheet is the focus of scientific research because its fate has huge implications for global sea levels, which are already rising as ice sheets melt and the ocean warms, exposing coastal locations to greater damage from storm surge - related flooding.

Alabama suffered more than $ 9 million in damage as a result of Tropical Storm Ida in 2009 and $ 14 billion in damage from Hurricane Ivan in 2004.

The logic makes sense (increased SST's increase hurricane intensity which increases damages from any given storm), but logic is not the same as scientific evidence.

This allows time for preparation for such things as higher sea levels, more intense storms — so that the level of damage from weather events might remain constant (i.e., limited to levels for which preparation is not economically justified).

When tropical cyclones — storm systems ranging in strength from tropical depressions to major hurricanes — form over the Gulf of Mexico's warm waters, they have a high chance of causing many deaths as well as widespread property damage in coastal communities.

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