Sentences with phrase «for damage from hurricanes»

Being in such close proximity to the Atlantic Ocean is just asking for damage from hurricanes, flooding and harsh winter weather.

The hiring data for August had yet to account for the damage from Hurricane Harvey, whose economic impact will be felt in coming months as more people seek unemployment benefits and industrial production will likely reflect the loss of Texas refineries and factories.

Not exact matches

The economic damage from a hurricane can continue to rise for months, if not years.

It is a sigh of relief for Patrick Zientara as he takes down the many sheets of plywood he installed to help protect his friends home from damage during Hurricane Irma.

While many people will point to Hurricane Katrina and the 2005 damage done in New Orleans and along the Gulf Coast as a model for what we may expect from Harvey, the 2016 floods in Baton Rouge may be more realistic.

It did however include some much needed aid for the citizens of Texas to help them recover from the extensive damage done by Hurricane Harvey.

Estimates for longer - term rebuilding costs will take weeks or month to prepare, but the magnitude of the disaster could rival or exceed the damage from Hurricane Katrina in 2005, which cost taxpayers $ 110 billion.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo was critical of President Donald Trump on Thursday for suggesting aid workers and military personnel would not be in Puerto Rico «forever,» saying the job isn't done yet for the island recovering from the damage caused by Hurricane Maria.

The city will extend property tax deadlines interest free — and may even provide a refund on property taxes already assessed — for structures badly damaged by Hurricane Sandy, a statement today from the office of Mayor Michael Bloomberg said.

Press Release from Eliot Engel's Office Congressman Eliot Engel announced last week, that $ 20 million in federal funds were awarded to New York State for emergency repairs of roads damaged by Hurricane Sandy.

«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.

The state is preparing for as many as 12,000 new residents who have been uprooted from their lives in the Caribbean after Hurricane Maria destroyed homes, damaged schools and wiped out the electrical grid.

LED lights were also installed for navigation and security on the Marine Parkway - Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge in 2014 after damage from Hurricane Sandy.

The state Board of Elections is extending the deadline to apply for an absentee ballot to Friday due to the damage from Hurricane Sandy.

Governor Cuomo says Hurricane Sandy caused more damage than Hurricane Katrina, and is now asking for $ 41 billion from the federal government.

Gelman said Stringer has «worked around the clock» on Sandy relief and that he «feels strongly that we are all one city, and for that reason has worked collaboratively to target areas that suffered damages from Hurricane Sandy, including other boroughs that were particularly hard hit,» she said.

Cuomo says he does not want to scare people, but he says there is concern that the storm predicted for Wednesday and Thursday could be potentially significant, and he says there are worries that debris that still litters many streets and yards from Hurricane Sandy could become projectiles in high winds, and that already damaged homes could be further effected.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork / AP)-- Some elected officials in New York City are adamantly seeking answers and federal aid for their communities following storm - damage from Hurricane Irene.

Governor Andrew Cuomo says Hurricane Sandy caused more damage than Hurricane Katrina, and is now asking for $ 41 billion from the federal government.

«Scientists get early look at hurricane damage to Caribbean coral reefs: Storms act as an interesting «natural experiment» — a rare chance for researchers to study how corals recover from disasters.»

Ecologist Jeffrey Chambers of Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, and his colleagues used data on hurricanes and the damage they have caused to estimate the total loss of biomass in US forests for every year from 1851 to 2000.

The simulations didn't incorporate hurricanes, but Bozec says that it's likely that more stress would make it even more difficult for corals to recover from hurricane damage.

Pressure and wind speed have been used interchangeably to estimate potential damage from hurricanes for years, but the relationship between them has been a long - standing riddle in tropical meteorology.

The report for 2012, based on an index of fatalities and economic damage from weather extremes, noted that Haiti was struck by Hurricane Sandy, the Philippines by typhoon Bopha and Pakistan had suffered severe monsoon floods.

Right now, he's entirely without a lab for at least a couple weeks, as the university cleans up damage from Hurricane Maria.

That preview has since been taken down, but its appearance came on the heels of several setbacks for the film, including damage to one of the film's two arks from Hurricane Sandy and reports that Aronofsky was arguing with his financiers about the filmmaker's cut.

The largest school district in Texas cancels next week's classes for its 218,000 students as it assesses damage and patrons recover from Hurricane Harvey.

Officials from the Houston Independent School District (HISD) have postponed the already deferred September 11 start date for all of its 215,000 students as the entire region scrambles to assess the damage from Hurricane Harvey.

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.

High Point, NC renters insurance generally includes coverage for damage from windstorms and hurricanes.

A Florida law dictates that property insurance policies must include coverage for wind damage from a storm that is deemed a hurricane by the National Hurricanhurricane by the National HurricaneHurricane Center.

For example, you may have to get endorsements or separate policies for damage from a tornado, hurricane or earthquaFor example, you may have to get endorsements or separate policies for damage from a tornado, hurricane or earthquafor damage from a tornado, hurricane or earthquake.

However, if you want over $ 250,000 of dwelling coverage, coverage for landscaping or decks that could be damaged in a hurricane, or additional living expenses coverage, you'll need to get a policy from a private flood insurance company.

If there were damage to the building from a hurricane, for instance, it wouldn't be your problem as a resident.

The seasonal trend for vessel utilization can be disrupted by hurricanes, which have the ability to cause severe offshore damage and generate significant demand for our services from oil and natural gas companies to restore shut - in production.

Now, he is assembling volunteers from throughout the Barrington area, dubbing the charitable outreach as «Barrington Regional Hurricane Relief,» for a trip Nov. 10 through Nov. 19 to Houston, where local volunteers will work to rebuild damaged homes with new drywall, trim and molding after Hurricane Harvey struck the area in late August.

While Texas recovers from Hurricane Harvey damage, and Florida and the Caribbean braces for Hurricane Irma, the western states, from Montana to the Pacific, are burning.

Brenau University Galleries will re-open on Thursday, September 14th, after being closed for three days due to damage and power outages resulting from Hurricane Irma.

Interestingly, the country to suffer the most damage from a hurricane is also primarily responsible for global warming.

However, to support the assertion that global warming is responsible for a great deal of damage from such events, it is sufficient to show that such events have the «signature» of global warming — for example, that specific global warming - related factors such as abnormally high sea surface temperatures, elevated water vapor levels, and altered jet stream patterns contributed to making Hurricane Sandy what it was — even if those factors can not be precisely quantified.

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Insurance companies have also started excluding coverage for damage from windstorms, and by «windstorms» they mean hurricanes, tornadoes and hailstorms (and how many of us don't live in an area prone to windstorms?).

Damage from extreme weather events during 2017 racked up the biggest - ever bills for the U.S.. Most of these events involved conditions that align intuitively with global warming: heat records, drought, wildfires, coastal flooding, hurricane damage and heavy raiDamage from extreme weather events during 2017 racked up the biggest - ever bills for the U.S.. Most of these events involved conditions that align intuitively with global warming: heat records, drought, wildfires, coastal flooding, hurricane damage and heavy raidamage and heavy rainfall.

Already, supporters have drawn on the research from the study to call for forcing fossil fuel companies to pay for the costs of «climate damages,» including damage due to hurricanes and flooding.

For instance, after storm surges from Hurricane Sandy caused extensive damage to New York City, NY (USA) in October 2012, it convinced the Mayor of New York City, Mike Bloomberg that man - made global warming is real and that we should immediately reduce our carbon dioxide emissions:

The Paris accord also holds out carrots for participation by developing nations, including a new mechanism to fund loss and damage from hurricanes, droughts or rising sea levels.

Consider, for example, the statement «projected damages from Hurricane Harvey total $ 125 billion».

They know, for instance, the risks of hurricanes and those of storm - surge damage from other powerful storms.

The problem now seems to be that we can only talk about hurricane PDI on the whole for the entire world, but if we ever get to a point where we can figure what (including AGW) went into each hurricane's PDI (including what went into SST in its vicinity), then we'd be able with more confidence to attribute a portion of the damage from specific hurricanes to AGW.

But, even in just a brief period of reduced fishing which resulted from damage caused by a hurricane, scores of newborn dolphins hint that what's bad for the fishing industry may be good for everything else.