Sentences with phrase «destructive hurricane»

Sample wisdom: «I've never lost my house in a flood, but I would imagine that «cute» would beat «cutting edge» every time,» says architectural historian and cultural critic Witold Rybczynski in a discussion of the cheerful coastal - style Katrina Cottages that Marianne Cusato designed in the wake of 2005's destructive Hurricane Katrina.

«Floods can strike any place and at any time, and in the wake of the most destructive hurricane season in nearly a century, this legislation is critical,» says Stevens.

When a particularly destructive hurricane occurs, that name is often retired off the list.

Satellite image by NASA of Hurricane Fran - a powerful, destructive hurricane that made landfall in North Carolina (USA) on 5th September 1996.

Maybe we'll get a massively destructive hurricane soon — with many deaths — particularly children.

Nor is it merely that Maria, probably the most destructive hurricane in the island's history, is the kind of event that climate change experts have long warned would be among the risks facing coastal areas as the planet warms.

This was the sixth strongest and fifth most destructive hurricane to ever hit the US.

Katrina was the most financially destructive hurricane ever to make landfall anywhere.

Record - high temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico surface waters helped make Hurricane Katrina the most financially destructive hurricane ever to make landfall anywhere.

With sustained winds over 100 mph and gusts of 115 to 125 mph, it was the most destructive hurricane to hit the Northeast coast since the Long Island Express in 1938.

Here in NYC, for example, we had a massive, destructive hurricane which damaged over 50K homes and created storm tides up to 15 feet above normal.

In the aftermath of the destructive hurricane, Houston's shelters are overrun by lost animals and pets whose owners no longer have the ability to care for them, Stevens said recently.

This is one of the most active and destructive hurricane season in the Atlantic Ocean area on records.

How does it compare with Katrina, which struck the Gulf Coast on Aug. 29, 2005, and is considered the most destructive hurricane in U.S. history?

Winds gusting at speeds of up to 1,650 km / h blow from West to East in the equatorial atmosphere, thirteen times the strength of the most destructive hurricane force winds that form on Earth «s equator.

Hurricane Maria is Puerto Rico's worst in nearly a century, a double blow as it follows the destructive Hurricane...

Cuomo reiterated that the state would step up its efforts to assist Puerto Rico as it recovers from last fall's destructive hurricane by sending NYPA officials and hundreds of SUNY and CUNY students who will receive academic credit by performing Peace Corps - style rebuilding work in communities across the island.

Walter Brueggemann challenges the commentators who call the terribly destructive Hurricane Katrina a storm of biblical destruction and suggests some categories that give it some genuinely biblical terms.

The Aiken, South Carolina - based power company, which provides transmission, distribution, substation and telecommunication products to several U.S. electric utility entities, also rushed sorely - needed utility products to affected areas of Texas and Florida following the destructive hurricanes that ripped through them.

Compare Irma to the 20 most destructive hurricanes in U.S. history.

Hurricane Andrew, one of the most destructive hurricanes recorded, was a Category 5 storm that struck Florida in 1992, killing 25 people and destroying 28,000 homes.

«Each of these destructive hurricanes now joins Katrina and Sandy, in the new top 5 costliest U.S. hurricanes on record.»

Narrated by series host and CBS News correspondent Mike Wallace, this episode uses CBS News footage to recapture some of the most destructive hurricanes in history, including Edward R. Murrow's coverage of Hurricane Carol in 1954 and 1989's Hurricane Hugo in Charleston, SC.

Mother Nature just dealt our country a major one - two punch in the form of Harvey and Irma — two destructive hurricanes.

The present steady rise in tropical temperatures due to global warming will have a major impact on global climate and could intensify destructive hurricanes like Katrina and Rita.

That paper's projection of increased hurricane damage is consistent with numerous scientific studies that project increasing numbers of the most destructive hurricanes.»

Like the climate scientists on RealClimate contend, Kolbert notes that no particular storm can be caused by global warming, but that the long - term patterns don't look good... increased greenhouse gases = warmer oceans = more destructive hurricanes.

According to emergency officials in Galveston and Brazoria counties, little can be done to offset the increasingly larger storm surges and reduce the likelihood of more destructive hurricanes.

We see it in the devastating combination of sea level rise and more destructive hurricanes which has led to calamities like «Superstorm» Sandy and what is now the perennial flooding of Miami beach.

«Global warming may not only be causing more destructive hurricanes, it could also be shaking the ground beneath our feet» — How climate change triggers earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanoes World news The Guardian

One of the most destructive hurricanes in the last 100 years was the Bhola cyclone (category 3) that made landfall on the Bangladesh coastline on November 12 of 1970.

LONDON, 25 May, 2015 − Once again, scientists have confirmed the link between climate change and destructive hurricanes.

The conclusion is not new: other teams have already proposed that global warming linked to increases of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere as a consequence of fossil fuel combustion could drive tropical cyclones to higher latitudes and that the most destructive hurricanes could happen increasingly often.

The 2005 hurricane season saw some of the most destructive hurricanes on record, which claimed more than 3 000 lives in Central America and the United States.

These warming signs include record rainfalls, and severe snowstorms; extraordinarily destructive hurricanes and tornadoes; heat waves unique in weather annals; widespread droughts and devastating forest fires; unseasonable warmth and cold; and some of the worst floods in recorded weather history.

We are committed to significant warming no matter what happens, and if this warming is going to spark stronger or more destructive hurricanes on average, the most immediate policy prescription ought instead to be investing in better hurricane preparedness (although of course there are many other valid reasons to cap emissions).

Increasingly destructive hurricanes are putting a growing number of people and structures at risk

Travel insurers again enjoyed a year of growth in 2017, largely thanks to more people traveling and increased awareness of insurance because of unpredictable, disruptive events like the destructive hurricanes that swept through the Caribbean.

And the highly - destructive hurricanes that struck the United States this year are a real - world reminder that risk spreading via reinsurance in some form makes the financial system more resilient even in the face of unthinkably - severe shocks.»

Not exact matches

In Florida, where the emergency plan is based on a directive from the state legislature, more than 12,000 prisoners were moved out of Hurricane Irma's destructive path in one of the largest evacuations in the state's history.

Hurricane Harvey became the nation's first Category 4 landfall in almost 12 years, hammering the Texas Gulf Coast with an extremely dangerous combination of torrential rainfall, storm - surge flooding and destructive winds.

It's why the hurricanes that hit Houston last year were so destructive.

It is not likely that Satan can control the weather, or cause earthquakes, hurricanes, and famines, but Satan certainly knows more about the conditions and requirements for such natural disasters to occur, and does what he can to tempt mankind and encourage natural forces toward these destructive storms and natural disasters that are often unleashed upon us.

Still, something survived the military hurricane, that would rage for the next 29 years (1966 - 1999)-- with a civilian interregnum of four years under 2nd Republic President Shehu Shagari (1979 - 1983)-- getting most destructive under Gen. Babangida, and his Khalifa, Gen. Sani Abacha.

«We write to direct your urgent attention to the destructive role of these companies in the current crisis in Puerto Rico, in which massive hurricane damage and economic loss is being exploited by private equity funds seeking huge profits from human suffering,» says the letter, which was also signed by groups including New York Communities for Change and the Center for Popular Democracy.

All of us who lived through Sandy — and Irene and Floyd before that — know not to underestimate the destructive power of a hurricane, even if it weakens by the time it reaches New York.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science has made a $ 10,000 donation to the AAAS Caribbean Division to help the Puerto Rican scientific research enterprise respond to extensive rebuilding challenges left by the destructive force of Hurricane Maria, encouraging others to also support efforts.

As a result, the three Fujiwhara - enhanced hurricanes» destructive power peaked at 100 to 160 percent higher than Sandy, and brought as much as 180 percent more rain.

Scientists say climate change is making hurricanes more intense and more destructive.

Hurricane Sandy was an unusually large and destructive storm, breaking records in rainfall, flooding, barometric pressure and, potentially, costs.