Sentences with phrase «damaging storm events»

To combat repeated, damaging storm events, which strip agricultural land of soil and nutrients, farmers are already adopting measures to conserve these assets where they are needed.

Not exact matches

• Commercial property insurance covers everything related to the loss and damage of company property due to events such as wind and hail storms, fire, smoke, civil disobedience, and vandalism.

At a campaign event for state Senate Democratic candidate Shelley Mayer, Cuomo responded to criticism over not getting out to survey the damage caused by the nor» easters that walloped the lower Hudson Valley and speak with those affected by the storms.

Before the region has fully recovered from last week's damaging wind storm, the National Weather Service is cautioning about another severe weather event.

The mayor compared holding the marathon Sunday — less than a week after the storm hit causing widespread damage — to then - Mayor Rudy Giuliani's decision to hold the event after the Sept. 11 attacks.

Schumer and Gillibrand said the 15 counties suffered extreme damages to residential homes, small businesses, public facilities, roads and bridges, and that it is impractical to expect state and local governments to plan and budget for the impacts of storm events lasting 25 days.

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.

When an extreme event collides with continually rising seas, it takes a less intense storm, such as a Category I hurricane, to inflict as much coastal damage as a Category II or III storm would have had when the seas were lower.

«Storm surges globally lead to considerable loss of life and billions of dollars of damages each year, and yet we still have a limited understanding of the likelihood and associated uncertainties of these extreme events both today and in the future,» said Thomas Wahl, an assistant engineering professor in the University of Central Florida who led the study.

More than 20 stairwell covers have already been installed in lower Manhattan as part of the New York City subway system's Super Storm Sandy recovery efforts,» said Fortune, «With the RTP, we are capable of controlling the vastness of danger, damage and even inconvenience to the public due to flooding events.»

«If the solar storm of 1921, which has been termed a one - in -100-year event, were to occur today, well over 300 extra-high-voltage transformers could be damaged or destroyed, thereby interrupting power to 130 million people for a period of years,» Joseph McClelland, director of the Office of Electric Reliability at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, said at a May 31 House Energy subcommittee hearing on the issue.

Its author, Charles Kerpelman, says the number of storms and other potentially disastrous events has probably remained constant, but the world's growing population means the chances of large numbers of people being killed, or of serious economic damage, have increased.

In addition, stronger storms may also lead to greater coral damage due to increased flooding events, associated terrestrial runoff of freshwater and dissolved nutrients from coastal watersheds, and changes in sediment transport (leading to smothering of corals).

According to a National Research Council Report (See «Severe Space Weather Events — Understanding Societal and Economic Impacts: A Workshop Report» [2008]-RRB-, damages from the most extreme solar storms could range between $ 1 trillion - $ 2 trillion within the first year and four to 10 years for full recovery.

The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) will provide a total of $ 319,710,818 from its emergency relief program to 28 states, Puerto Rico and American Samoa to reimburse them for damages caused by storms, flooding, hurricanes and other natural events.

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For those living in areas that experience consistent severe weather events, adding storm - protection upgrades like storm - proof windows or wind - resistant garage doors to your house can decrease your premiums while shielding you from more damage.

Additionally, comprehensive, or «other than collision» insurance can help you recover financially if your bike is damaged by a fallen tree, a severe storm, or other event.

Renters insurance can also provide compensation for alternative living arrangements in the event that your rental unit or rented home becomes uninhabitable due to storm damage or an apartment fire.

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

Like homeowners insurance, your policy will cover the structure in the event that it is damaged due to storms, fire or malicious acts.

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

Renters insurance will protect your belongings in the event of fire, theft or storm damage, or if a water pipe breaks and water damages your furniture or other belongings.

Simultaneous Events The most common simultaneous event that could be problematic for homeowners is a storm that causes both wind and flood damage.

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.

We are already seeing more intense storms and more heatwaves and higher extreme rainfall events, all at damaging levels so it can only get worse over the next 30 years imho.

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.

But in imagery we've obtained for the latter part of the summer, it's also clear that episodic storm events can do a lot of damage, as well.

The danger from storms that occur relative to volcanic events, on the other hand, with high SOx emissons is wind damage.

It will display current storms and their projected tracks, along with damage from events starting at the same location.

While many studies of the effects of global warming on hurricanes predict an increase in various metrics of Atlantic basin - wide activity, it is less clear that this signal will emerge from background noise in measures of hurricane damage, which depend largely on rare, high - intensity landfalling events and are thus highly volatile compared to basin - wide storm metrics.

Overwash accumulating each year will also damage the infrastructure on these islands, making it much harder for potable water resources to recover from storm events.

These authors show that resistance of trees to hurricane damage is not only correlated with individual and species characteristics, but also with past disturbance history, which suggests that individual storms can not be treated as discrete, independent events when interpreting the effects of hurricanes on forest structure.

LONDON, 19 March — Extreme storm events on the scale of Hurricane Katrina which caused widespread damage in the Gulf of Mexico in 2005 will occur far more often because of climate change, a new study says.

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.

If Sandy causes $ 20 billion in damage (in 2012 dollars), it would rank as the 17th most damaging hurricane or tropical storm (out of 242) to hit the U.S. since 1900 — a significant event, but not close to the top 10.

He says average rainfall for Australia will decrease, but the extreme weather events will be on the rise, so while you might get less rain over the year it will come in the form of damaging storms and stronger winds which feel like so - called freak events.

In one, a 1998 planning document carrying the acronym TINA (for «there is no alternative»), the company even imagined events in the year 2010 after violent and damaging storms wreaked havoc on the East Coast of the U.S.

In the last 20 years, there have been 6,457 floods, storms, heatwaves, droughts and other climatic events that meet the UN definition of a disaster − that is, they killed people, displaced communities, or caused damage calculated in millions.

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).

(134) Other chances to mention global climate change came in stories about heat waves, floods, and coastal storms, especially when the events were more damaging than anything in recent memory.

Extreme weather events (storms, floods, droughts) will occur more frequently, and related risks and damages may become more significant.

Economic damage from climate - related events − ice storms, drought, flood, windstorms and heatwaves — has been on the increase for decades, but one explanation for this is population growth and economic development, even in the poorest regions.

New York City, Chesapeake Bay and Houston are very vulnerable to similar events where the bulk of the damage results from storm surge.

«Poorly constructed, badly maintained, and aging infrastructure and housing — a legacy of both the Soviet era and the transition years — are ill - suited to cope with storms, heat waves, or floods, let alone protect people from such extreme events,» said the study headed by Zeljko Bogetic, the World Bank's lead economist for Russia... Floods or other «extreme events» can cause far greater damage in Russia than would be the case in other parts of the world, the World Bank report said.

From a drought that covered 60 percent of our nation to a super storm that caused over $ 65 billion in damages; from wildfires spreading across the West to severe flooding in cities all across our country, we've seen how extreme weather events are made worse when we fail to act.

Climate impact concerns include environmental quality (e.g., more ozone, water - logging or salinisation), linkage systems (e.g., threats to water and power supplies), societal infrastructures (e.g., changed energy / water / health requirements, disruptive severe weather events, reductions in resources for other social needs and maintaining sustainable livelihoods, environmental migration (Box 7.2), placing blame for adverse effects, changes in local ecologies that undermine a sense of place), physical infrastructures (e.g., flooding, storm damage, changes in the rate of deterioration of materials, changed requirements for water or energy supply), and economic infrastructures and comparative advantages (e.g., costs and / or risks increased, markets or competitors affected).

Comprehensive insurance covers damages to your vehicle in the event of fire, flood or a storm.

A covered event is defined as a single named storm which causes property damage to policyholders of the insured company.