Sentences with phrase «destructive storm»

«Our economy has weathered the most destructive storm ever, the tech bust, the terrorist attack, wars abroad, and accounting scandals.

As of now, at least 13 people are known to have died from this destructive storm system, with six deaths reported in Virginia, two in New Jersey, two in Maryland, one in Kentucky, one in Washington D.C., and one in Ohio.

About our investigation: «Developing Storm» Hurricane Harvey was the most destructive storm in Houston's history.

Scientists are using satellites to identify where increasing sea levels could result in the most destructive storm surge as hurricanes grow more powerful due to climate change.

New dates, observations and a relative sea - level (RSL) curve were then used to inform discussion of the necessary climatic and morphologic conditions leading to destructive storm events.

The winds lasted for hours, the swath of devastation was enormous and the storm brought with it a massively destructive storm surge that was over 5 meters high in places.

Wind varies in intensity and strength from a gentle breeze to a powerful and destructive storm, such as a hurricane or tornado.

Ori and The Blind Forest is a story about a forest spirit who's world is thrown into chaos after a destructive storm robs him of the only family he had, his adoptive mother.

The Petco Foundation investment will help the Humane Society of Greater Miami recover from losses and damages caused by the destructive storm including roof leaks, air conditioning damage, property damage and losses associated with extended downtime.

The Virginian - Pilot reports that Norfolk - based Navy helicopter squadrons that were previously sent to the Houston area have rescued hundreds of people impacted by the destructive storm.

Don't wait until after you have a loss to check your insurance — review your homeowners or renters policies to make you have the right coverage in the event you're hit with a destructive storm.

The final moments of The Florida Project unfold breathlessly — tension is mounting, and there's the queasy sense that something terrible is about to happen, like a destructive storm about to break.

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

«This was a fast moving but highly destructive storm, centered on the Mid-Hudson Valley,» said Charles A. Freni, Senior Vice President of Customer Services and Transmission & Distribution.

Governor Cuomo appeared with leaders of New York's congressional delegation to urge Congress to finally act on a federal aid package for victims of Superstorm Sandy, seven weeks after the destructive storm.

I, along with many other Breezy Point residents, lost our homes last night and I am grateful that my family and I are safe after this destructive storm.

Hundreds of survivors were taking refuge in the church compound, much of which withstood Super Typhoon Haiyan's ferocious winds and destructive storm surge.

The life - bringing rain turns into a destructive storm.

But unpredictable and destructive storms do remind me of how powerless we are despite our pretensions to, and obsessions about, control.

I think destructive storms do come as a consequence of not obeying God, but I don't think that God Himself actively sends them.

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.

Daswa was beaten to death 25 years ago by fellow villagers after he refused to pay a sorcerer who promised to end destructive storms hammering the region.

While there was much talk of Mother Nature and her effect on storms, there was little discussion of the climate change that many scientists believe is causing the more frequent and destructive storms.

What causes nature's destructive storms?

For coastal communities like Long Island, this means rising sea levels and more destructive storms.

As such, it's hard to make any definite conclusions about whether and how global warming contributed to Sandy and other recent destructive storms, he said.

A group of mechanical engineering students are working on a project that will fly drones into the middle of tornadoes in an effort to learn more about the inner workings of these destructive storms.

Combined with other calamities, we find ourselves in a two - front war: Fire and heat that ravage inland communities, and massively destructive storms that damage coastal zones.

These systems, a topic of much research in the 1970s - 1980s, don't look that horrendous in comparison to typhoons, but end up generating some of the most destructive storms.

«Environmental scientists have been saying for some time that the global economy is being slowly undermined by environmental trends of human origin, including shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, eroding soils, collapsing fisheries, rising temperatures, melting ice, rising seas, and increasingly destructive storms,» 6.

And while countries like Myanmar will have the largest number of displaced peoples from climate change, even countries like the US are likely to see a surge in internally displaced people as coastal communities come face to face with sea level rise and more destructive storms.

If you look up some of his novels (Foundation Series and such) you can read about Earth and the requirement for space exploration because Earth is rattled with destructive storms and such.

And building resilience to climate extremes — from drought to flooding to destructive storms — is a nonpartisan no brainer.

But part is due to more - destructive storms.

Higher surface water temperatures in the tropical oceans mean more energy radiating into the atmosphere to drive tropical storm systems, leading to more - destructive storms.

Higher temperatures diminish crop yields, melt the snow / ice reservoirs in the mountains that feed the earth's rivers, cause more - destructive storms, increase the area affected by drought, and cause more frequent and destructive wildfires.

The temperature increases bring crop - withering heat waves, more - destructive storms, more - intense droughts, more forest fires, and, of course, ice melting.

And these powerful, destructive storms actually took place well before large human CO2 emissions and the bogus claims of destructive global warming: examples include, 1946 and 1954.

Periods of more frequent storm events over the two last centuries are analysed first in order to link these events with possible forcing mechanisms (North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) and Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) modes) triggering the most destructive storms.

These include rising temperatures, increasing carbon dioxide levels, fires, more destructive storms, insect infestation and the impact of woody vines known as lianas.

Apart from driving temperatures up, global warming is likely to cause bigger, more destructive storms, leading to an overall increase in precipitation.

In the face of higher sea levels and more intense storms, coastal communities face greater risk of rapid beach erosion from destructive storms like the intense nor» easter of April 2007 that caused this damage.

These in turn are responsible for melting ice, rising sea levels, and a greater number of more destructive storms.

«Given the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy it is important that plans are put in place to protect against the effects of similarly destructive storms that could potentially occur more often in the future.»

That will be true here in spades, where the damage includes hotter summers, more crop losses, more disease, more destructive storms, and whole communities swamped by rising sea levels.

But the 2004 and 2005 Atlantic hurricane seasons were off the charts: Seven of the ten most destructive storms in U.S. history occurred in those years; 2005 saw a record $ 58 billion in insured losses.

Global warming, the report says, has already raised ocean temperatures enough to significantly increase the chances of highly destructive storms.

Destructive storms, drowned coastal regions, decimated food chains, forest die - off, spreading disease, economic devastation, warfare and massive migrations of humans and other species are all virtual certainties in the lifetimes of many people now living, unless the world makes sharp cuts in greenhouse gases.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The world's most destructive storms are on the move — putting at risk coastal areas that would not expect to be hit by violent hurricanes or typhoons.

That global warming might be making the most destructive storms on Earth even more dangerous.