Sentences with phrase «by powerful hurricane»

According to a 2010 Pinellas County emergency management report, the county is vulnerable to storm surge, a dome of water pushed ashore by powerful hurricane winds.

As discussed at a recent meeting hosted by the Heinz Center and Ceres in Boston kicking off their Resilient Coasts project, a similar coast - hugging blow by a powerful hurricane along the U.S. coast could result in $ 300 - 350 billion in insured damage.

In 1780, the town was completely destroyed by a powerful hurricane, now known to history as Savanna - la - Mar hurricane.

Most sites had been hit by a powerful hurricane every 200 to 600 years, on average.

Not exact matches

Many of the islands that are currently in Maria's path were directly affected by Hurricane Irma earlier this month, so another hit from such a powerful storm is almost unthinkable at this point.

WASHINGTON, Sep. 14 / CSRwire / - The suffering of millions displaced by powerful megastorms like hurricanes Harvey and Irma underscore the critical significance of finding solutions to the worlds greatest challenges and the need for countries and the private sector to work in collaboration...

That was the finding by the powerful Moreland Commission following its investigation into the response by utility companies in the wake of Hurricane Sandy.

Arkema said the company had no way to prevent fires because the plant is swamped by about 6 feet (1.83 m) of water due to flooding from Harvey, which came ashore in Texas last week as a powerful Category 4 hurricane, knocking out power to its cooling system.

Powerful hurricanes such as Harvey, Irma and Maria are also providing a testing ground for new tools that scientists hope will save lives by improving forecasts in various ways, from narrowing a storm's future path to capturing swift changes in the intensity of storm winds.

«The human deaths and the powerful landscape - altering destruction caused by Hurricane Sandy are a stark reminder that our nation must become more resilient to coastal hazards,» said Kevin Gallagher, associate director for Core Science Systems at USGS.

By the morning of the latter, the center expects the hurricane to reach Category 4 intensity — it's at Category 3 currently — and remain «large and powerful» for the next five days.

The slow - moving storm, a rare and powerful hybrid of hurricane and nor'easter fueled by an influx of Arctic air, is expected to make landfall in New Jersey later today.

Others argue that global warming brought on by the increased production of greenhouse gasses will lead to larger hurricane zones and more powerful storms.

Battered by two intensely powerful storms with sustained wind gusts of more than 150 miles per hour last year — first by Hurricane Irma and then by Hurricane Maria — Puerto Rico suffered widespread and catastrophic damage to its urban infrastructure.

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If homeowners affected by Hurricane Irene or its less powerful incarnation, Tropical Storm Irene, experienced wind and flood damage, they could be in for a rude awakening when they file insurance... more

As was the case with Hurricane Irma, the French island of Martinique did not experience a direct hit by this second powerful storm and was spared after the close encounter with Hurricane Maria, according to the CTO.

Due to the direct impact from Hurricane Irma on his home in the Lower Florida Keys, his recent projects are calling attention to the massive physical destruction and catastrophic environmental damage left behind by increasingly powerful storms due to climate change.

Battered by two intensely powerful storms with sustained wind gusts of more than 150 miles per hour last year — first by Hurricane Irma and then by Hurricane Maria — Puerto Rico suffered widespread and catastrophic damage to its urban infrastructure.

A 1987 study sponsored by the electric utility industry warned that climate change could one day fuel more powerful storms, some thirty years before hurricanes Harvey and Irma.

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The destruction caused by natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina and human activities such as mountaintop removal mining are powerful examples of how the environment and society are tightly interwoven.

Now one of the points made earlier by Gavin was that the ocean is able to retain heat, and thus if a given season fails to produce hurricanes one season, then the next season that there is less windshear should see more powerful hurricanes due to the increased heat reserve.

In his accompanying book, An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It (Rodale Books, May 2006), Gore noted a July 31, 2005, study by MIT climatologist Kerry Emanuel that Gore said «supported the scientific consensus that global warming is making hurricanes more powerful and more destructive» [An Inconvenient Truth, p. 92].

With continued warming, sea level is likely to rise by one to four feet globally by the end of the century, enabling the powerful surge associated with hurricanes to penetrate further inland than today.