Sentences with phrase «for hurricane force»

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Harvey's devastating hurricane - force winds, storm surge on the Gulf Coast, and landmark flooding inland combined to make it a catastrophic event for Texas.

The wireless industry has for years successfully fought regulations that would force mobile phone networks to be hardened so they work during storms, but it may face renewed demands after Hurricane Harvey knocked out seven of 10 cell towers in the hardest - hit counties of Texas.

A Miami - Dade Circuit Court judge has ruled that Coral Gables can't force FPL to upgrade infrastructure and trim trees around power lines, but that the city can sue the utility for breach of contract over its response to power outages following Hurricane Irma.

The Community Foundation of Greater New Britain (CFGNB) and New Britain Bees professional baseball club will join forces on Saturday, May 19, to raise money for victims of Hurricane Maria and to treat hundreds of New Britain school students and their...

The airline's dedication to providing extensive hurricane relief on the Caribbean island — and in the continental U.S. — underscores its commitment to leveraging its strengths as a business to rise up as a force for good in the community.

«At stake for FPL are the claims of all customers who paid for storm - recovery charges and nevertheless lost power for a prolonged period in the sweltering summer heat after Hurricane Irma's outer bands unleashed tropical storm force winds in the South Florida area,» a law firm representing the plaintiffs said in a statement.

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.

The US National Guard (which is a branch of the USA Armed Forces) is regularly deployed in emergency situations, like for example the Katrina hurricane.

The council also passed legislation Wednesday that will force the city to study the impacts of extreme weather, including severe heat, rain storms and coastal flooding, to help better prepare the city for the next Hurricane Irene.

60 Percent of Build it Back Homes in Queens Have Been Served Quarter of Those Slated for Construction Work Are Now Complete QUEENS, NY — Borough President Melinda Katz's Hurricane Relief Task Force today reviewed the progress of the work thus far in Queens by the City's «NYC Build it Back» Program, which is dedicated -LSB-...]

He flew on Air Force One with President Obama in late August, en route to a ceremony for the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.

At that time it was uncovered that a task force had been created some five years earlier should have been able to help New Yorkers prepare for calamity wrought by Hurricane Irene.

Rubin is currently Senior Advisor to HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan, who was in Albany for the conference, and New York State Director of the President's Hurricane Sandy Recovery and Rebuilding Task Force.

The need for the amendment emerged from Borough President Katz's Hurricane Relief Task Force, which brings together multiple local, state and federal government agencies, elected officials and civic leaders to one table to discuss relevant recovery and rebuilding issues.

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.

Now, in a new $ 62 million, 5 - year program, the network of doomsday machines is expanding to simulate hurricanes and tornadoes and is joining forces with computer modeling to study how things too big for a physical test — such as nuclear reactors or even an entire city — will weather what Mother Nature throws at them.

A day after the administration released the Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force progress report, three U.S. federal agencies have announced plans for remapping parts of the East Coast, where Hurricane Sandy altered seafloors and shorelines, destroyed buildings, and disrupted millions of lives last year.

The arrival of hurricane season on June 1 has forced BP to develop a more flexible oil collection system, Kent Wells, a BP senior vice president for exploration and production, said Monday at a press briefing.

This force affects objects moving on the surface of a rotating body, for example generating hurricanes in Earth's atmosphere as it moves over our spinning planet.

NOAA's latest forecasts warn of the potential for hurricane - force winds from the northern Delmarva Peninsula to Cape Cod, Mass., and well inland, with rainfall totals topping 12 inches in some areas.

For example, in 1900, a 6 - meter (20 - foot) storm surge and hurricane - force winds combined to kill at least 5,000 people in Galveston, Texas.

Colleen Snydeman, director of quality and safety for Patient Care Services at Massachusetts General Hospital, felt the full force of Hurricane Maria three weeks after September 20, 2017, the day the storm devastated Puerto Rico.

On Friday morning, the National Hurricane Center forecast indicated 50 percent or greater odds for tropical storm - force winds — surface winds greater than 39 mph — from Georgia to the eastern edge of Long Island.

2:00 am (24th)-- TCM — Key Largo Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall team up for the final time on this great noirish melodrama of a group of people, including a wheelchair - bound hotel owner, his recently widowed daughter - in - law (Bacall), a war veteran (Bogart), and a ruthless gangster and his girl, forced to take refuge against a fierce hurricane.

6:15 pm — TCM — Key Largo Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall team up for the final time on this great noirish melodrama of a group of people, including a wheelchair - bound hotel owner, his recently widowed daughter - in - law (Bacall), a war veteran (Bogart), and a ruthless gangster and his girl, forced to take refuge against a fierce hurricane.

10:15 am — TCM — Key Largo Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall team up for the final time on this great noirish melodrama of a group of people, including a wheelchair - bound hotel owner, his recently widowed daughter - in - law (Bacall), a war veteran (Bogart), and a ruthless gangster and his girl, forced to take refuge against a fierce hurricane.

The hurricane had devastated the school system, which was long ranked among the worst in the country, and it forced the schools to close, clearing the way for reform.

Mazda attempted something similar with the introduction of the overhauled Mazda6 — going for broke on an updated, U.S. - specific chassis and launching it headlong into the hurricane - force gale that was the economic collapse of 2008 - 2009.

There is also a special exclusion for Florida, Georgia and Caribbean weddings due to hurricane force winds in August, September and October.

The Mayor's Alliance for NYC's Animals continues to respond to Hurricane Sandy in collaboration with our partners on the Animal Planning Task Force (APTF) of... Continue reading →

Shortly after Hurricane Harvey made landfall in central Texas, Texas Litter Control, a high - quality clinic for cats and dogs in the Harris and Montgomery counties, was flooded and forced to temporarily shut down.

With AKC Pet Disaster Relief, pets will no longer be forced to wander the streets for days, displaced from their families, as they did during disasters like Hurricane Katrina and the Moore, Oklahoma tornadoes.

A spokesperson for the Antigua and Barbuda Tourism Authority told Travel Agent that none of the resorts in Antigua were forced to close due to the hurricanes.

Huge thanks go to DJ Grenola, who recorded all of the videos and wrote all of the descriptions for the 29 Secret Worlds and 2 Techniques added in this special «hurricane force winds» update.

Plus: Italy approves law relaxing art export rules NEH pledges $ 1m to arts organisations affected by Hurricane Harvey and Mexico creates task force for cultural heritage

> 14, 15, Russell — I meant «volokh» as the weblog, not the person sponsoring it; look back at the Judith Curry hurricane thread for a visit here by a lawyer who's active at volokhconspiracy, that will show in the search — he's the gentleman who was arguing that an increase in force 4 hurricanes (based on statistics, there are lots of 4s) can't possibly be the basis for expecting an increase in force 5 hurricanes (there are so few 5s that the statistics don't suffice, if you consider them separately).

«We didn't want to just build barriers; we wanted to build an ecosystem,» said Henk Ovink, a Dutch water - management expert who now serves as a senior adviser to the Presidential Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force, a group within the Department of Housing and Urban Development, which has earmarked billions for the program.

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.

Having a safe room built for your home or small business can help provide near - absolute protection for you and your family or employees from injury or death caused by the dangerous forces of extreme winds such as tornadoes and hurricanes.

For example, surge and strong wind caused by Hurricane Katrina's imposed lateral wave forces, buoyant uplift, debris impact, and scour.

At the coasts, strong winds, up to nearly hurricane force, will batter beaches with 20 - foot waves for three high tide cycles, prompting concern for severe beach erosion and major coastal flooding from Maryland to Massachusetts.

which documents, at least to my knowledge, the first instance of this global blinding, the inability to forecast at what might be the most important moment, at landfall, the onslaught a hurricane poses for a coast, due to global climate change and the radiative forcing to which I refer.

A storm like Irene could happen during any hurricane season, but La Nina reduces wind sheer, a force that zaps energy from weather systems, high over the Atlantic, making it easier for tropical storms and hurricanes to form.

While NOAA relies on the Air Force Reserve's «Hurricane Hunters» unit for the vast majority of hurricane reconnaissance work, NOAA's own aging fleet of hurricane research aircraft also fly into and around the fierce storms with specialized instruments, such as airborne DopplHurricane Hunters» unit for the vast majority of hurricane reconnaissance work, NOAA's own aging fleet of hurricane research aircraft also fly into and around the fierce storms with specialized instruments, such as airborne Dopplhurricane reconnaissance work, NOAA's own aging fleet of hurricane research aircraft also fly into and around the fierce storms with specialized instruments, such as airborne Dopplhurricane research aircraft also fly into and around the fierce storms with specialized instruments, such as airborne Doppler radar.

For example, the Yscloskey Gas Processing Plant was forced to close for 6 months following Hurricane Katrina, resulting in both lost revenues to the plant's owners and higher prices to consumers as alternative gas sources had to be procurFor example, the Yscloskey Gas Processing Plant was forced to close for 6 months following Hurricane Katrina, resulting in both lost revenues to the plant's owners and higher prices to consumers as alternative gas sources had to be procurfor 6 months following Hurricane Katrina, resulting in both lost revenues to the plant's owners and higher prices to consumers as alternative gas sources had to be procured.

The superstorm Hurricane Sandy, which devastated New York in 2012, slammed into a coast not prepared either for the force of the wind or for the storm surge that washed through the coastal structures.

QuikSCAT data have helped in the estimation of the intensity of tropical storms, in determining the radial extent of winds of tropical storm force in tropical storms and hurricanes, and in locating circulation centers for tropical depressions and tropical storms.

However, recent observations of the rate and severity of physical and ecological responses to escalating radiative forcing — melting glaciers and ice sheets resulting in sea level rise and major changes in weather patterns, prolonged droughts, more frequent hurricanes and storms, and so on — are surprising even top climate experts, and raising awareness that, as a nation, we are dangerously unprepared for the inevitable consequences.

And there remain strong differences of opinion on the relative importance of AMOC variability and aerosol forcing for the non-monotonic variation of North Atlantic surface temperatures and all the phenomena that we think are affected by it (including hurricanes and African rainfall).

Speaking via video — Hurricane Sandy forced Lippman to cancel plans to travel to D.C. — Lippman said the idea for the requirement came out of the dire financial straits facing civil legal services organizations at a time when demand for legal services for low - income individuals is on the rise.