Sentences with phrase «damaging storms»

In 1980, for example, when total disasters barely reached 60, the number of damaging storms was just over 50.

However, after this extremely damaging storm, many insurance providers began excluding hurricane damage from their coverage.

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.

He said that there were more fires, floods and damaging storms around the world, and sea levels were rising.

It is therefore important that you review your current homeowners insurance policies to make sure you're covered for the massive damage these storms can bring.

They agree global warming will bring higher sea levels and an increase in the frequency and severity of damaging storms (how much and how soon they don't know yet).

However, after this extremely damaging storm, many insurance providers began excluding hurricane damage from their coverage.

Even without a major hurricane reaching land, the U.S. has seen its fair share of damaging storms in recent years.

Recent runs of the HWRF model have shown some very worrisome amounts of rain falling on heavily populated regions of Madagascar, and Enawo has the potential to be a top - five most damaging storm in the island's history.

Governor Cuomo hosted Vice President Joe Biden to talk about new ways of rebuilding infrastructure after damaging storms.

The extra convection would not necessarily result in significantly more damaging storms because it would be spread across the globe and the increase in temperature between the surface and space would not need to become large before the process begins to take effect.

Many quibble with the measure, though, since other damaging storms, most notably Sandy, did hit during that time, even if they were not technically classified as major hurricanes.

Rationale: Home Depot and Lowe's saw increased demand last year after Hurricane Irene, a relatively less damaging storm than Hurricane Sandy.

The money was sent to the state in the wake of damaging storms Hurricane Sandy, Hurricane Irene and Hurricane Lee and meant to conduct a tourism campaign for the affected areas, which included swaths of both upstate New York and the New York City metropolitan area.

While many in the GOP dispute whether climate change is even happening, Chris Gibson of New York's 19th district says too - frequent damaging storms in his district are enough evidence that we've entered a «new normal.»

It's based in part on the experiences of U.S. states following damaging storms on the mainland.

Nobody wants a «solar Katrina» but a couple of moderately damaging storms will probably act as a wake - up call, reminding us that the threat is all too real.

But starting such a sensitive laboratory on the U.S. mainland in a highly agricultural area — and one that is frequently struck by damaging storms — has raised eyebrows at the GAO.

Information about particle size and shape also helps to distinguish airborne bits of debris lofted by tornadoes and severe thunderstorms, so meteorologists can identify an ongoing damaging storm.

It's known to cause droughts in Southeastern Asia and floods in Central and South America, as well as bring damaging storms to the U.S. Possible below - average rains in Australia and Asia this could severely affect their crops in wheat, sugar and rubber.

Reefs also protect shorelines from damaging storm waters and prevent erosion; they are the rainforests of the sea that provide a home for one million species; and they are «the medicine cabinets of the 21st century» according to NOAA's Coral Reef Conservation Program, providing new sources of medicine to treat cancer, HIV, heart disease, arthritis and other diseases.

Natural protections against damaging storm surges are increasingly threatened.

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.

The report shows that the US and China will be hardest hit, incurring $ 25 billion and $ 11 billion additional damages respectively, due to the concentration of development along the coasts and the frequency of damaging storms hitting these areas.

Gadsden is known for its tornado activity and a long history of damaging storm systems.

In these coastal areas, a hurricane or other large coastal storm can push water inland in a large and damaging storm surge.

None of the recent most damaging storms that stick out most in the public memory — hurricanes Katrina and Sandy, Super Typhoon Haiyan --- would qualify as grey swans.

«When it comes to protecting Staten Island from damaging storms and surges, we have to utilize every tool in the tool box and that is why hammering out a plan for the Island's sea wall is so critical,» Schumer said.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo hosted Vice President Joe Biden to talk about new ways of rebuilding infrastructure after damaging storms.

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.

In a power point presentation, Cuomo discussed his plans for building 100 new sophisticated weather stations across the state, to help measure when more floods and other damaging storms might occur.

Although the U.S. has seen its fair share of damaging storms in recent years, including Hurricane Sandy in 2013 (which technically was not a hurricane at landfall), the last major hurricane to strike the U.S. was Hurricane Wilma in 2005.

It would also mean investments in a hardened power grid, highways, sea walls, and other infrastructure to prepare for more damaging storms and other impacts of global warming.

Vice President Joe Biden was in Albany Tuesday to support Governor Andrew Cuomo's series of what he's calling «innovative protections» to the state's infrastructure after a series of damaging storms both upstate and down.

«We will see more extreme heat, damaging storms, coastal flooding and risks to food security,» Michael Oppenheimer, a professor of geosciences and international affairs at Princeton, told the New York Times.

It represents a failure to recognize the underlying causes of the damage storms inflict, and to seize the very real opportunity we have to head off this damage by taking action now.

Orlando is another city in Florida that is generally safe from the damaging storms that plague the south of the peninsula.

From allergies and asthma to extreme heat and damaging storms to more encounters with ticks, climate change is exposing us to greater risk.

President Donald Trump is striking a positive tone regarding his administration's response to Harvey even though it's much too soon to know the scope of the damage the storm has done.

Cuomo's trip to Puerto Rico comes after he's previously visited the island, as well as the U.S. Virgin Islands, in the aftermath of a damaging storm that knocked out power for most of its residents.

A federal audit says New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's administration mismanaged $ 22 million spent to promote tourism in areas affected by three damaging storms.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo hosted Vice President Joe Biden to talk about new ways of rebuilding infrastructure after damaging storms.

The team is particularly interested in the damage storms do to gravel and shingle beaches.

Their analyses had suggested a damaging storm surge of 0.9 to 1.8 meters (3 to 6 feet) above normal sea level could rush ashore.

It also alerted folks with information that a damaging storm surge was on its way.

Orlando is another city in Florida that is generally safe from the damaging storms that plague the south of the peninsula.

As veterinarians who have worked through multiple hurricanes (in Dr Burrough's case here in Florida or in Dr Mary's case in New Orleans) we have seen not only the damage a storm of any magnitude can do, we have also seen the heartbreak people experience when they can't find their beloved pet.