Sentences with phrase «hurricanes hit the area»

Weather — Don't assume that your hotel is going to refund your money if a hurricane hits the area two weeks before your planned trip.

Not exact matches

In this special episode of The Profit, Marcus Lemonis takes viewers to the hardest hit areas of Puerto Rico as residents struggle to recover from Hurricane Maria.

Haiti did not take a direct hit from Irma, one of the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes on record, but it unleashed rains that washed away fields of rice and plantains in coastal areas.

Construction added 16,000 jobs as rebuilding continued in hurricane - hit areas of Texas and Florida.

After Hurricane Katrina hit, some 100,000 New Orleans residents decided to stay in the Houston area to rebuild their lives.

Directing emergency funds to areas hit by natural disasters had traditionally been quick bipartisan exercises, but that changed after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 — when the Republican Study Committee, a group of House conservatives, pushed spending cuts to compensate for the approximately $ 200 billion expected in Katrina relief — including cutting farm subsidies, Amtrak funding and postponing the Medicare prescription - drug bill Republicans had approved two years earlier.

09 / 17 / 17 - Big Pine Key, FloridaÑRyan OÕBrien walks towards his devastated home on Big Pine Key as he tries to clean up after Hurricane Irma hit the Big Pine Key the area destroying most of the homes in the community.

Yes, there is a hurricane and unfortunately it hit an area where alot of people live, but causing more panic in this situtation is not necessary.

It also provided a helping hand to bay areas that were hit by Hurricane Katrina, Joe Maluff recalls.

The Charleston, Hilton Head and Myrtle Beach areas of South Carolina, hit hard by Hurricane Hugo in 1989, were unscathed as Fran hit just south of Wilmington, N.C.... Emilee Klein is not happy about being left off the U.S. Solheim Cup team that will play Europe next week in Chepstow, Wales.

A McDonalds sign lies on the ground after the area was hit by Hurricane Maria in Fajardo, Puerto Rico on September 20, 2017.

A damaged sail boat washed ashore is seen after the area was hit by Hurricane Maria in Fajardo, Puerto Rico on September 20, 2017.

Concrete power line poles lies on a highway after the area was hit by Hurricane Maria in Luquillo, Puerto Rico on September 20, 2017.

The «Boehner Betrayal,» as Senator Chuck Schumer called House Speaker John Boehner's broken promise to bring a $ 60 billion hurricane relief package to the floor, will likely have real and devastating consequences in Downtown Manhattan and other areas that were hit even harder by Sandy.

Figueroa, who was visiting for a month at her sister Eneida's house when the Hurricane Maria hit the area, also lost her home in the Arroyo community.

The foreign ministry's statement closed with an offer to help respond to Hurricane Harvey, which hit the Texas coast Friday as a Category 4 storm and has dropped record amounts of rain on the Houston area.

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.

The project, which started construction in 2013, has bioswales designed to absorb flood waters, drainage and other measures intended to make the area more resilient in case another Hurricane Sandy hits the borough.

The candidate also said he would fight for more affordable housing and focus on bringing Hurricane Sandy recovery funds to areas like Canarsie that were hit hard by the storm, something he said Sampson has been unable to do effectively while under indictment.

«So many New Yorkers are looking for ways to help those impacted most by Hurricane Sandy, and one easy way is to shop this holiday season and beyond at the small businesses in areas around the city who were hit hardest but have been able to reopen their doors,» Commissioner Robert Walsh, of the Department of Small Businesses Services, said.

New Berlin, N.Y. — Chobani is shipping 300,000 packages of its Greek yogurt to food banks and shelters in areas of Texas hit by massive flooding from Hurricane Harvey.

On top of that, the coastal areas hit hardest — the Louisiana wetlands — are already under acute stress from subsidence, erosion and the damage caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

MINNEAPOLIS — Less than two months after Hurricane Irene barreled up the eastern coastline of the United States, a group of scientists from some of the areas hardest hit presented evidence of the storm's dramatic geological effects on their home states.

The task force also recommends that city, county and state governments seriously consider abandoning whole areas of the coast altogether, to allow vegetation to gradually migrate away from the shoreline and give nature a chance to build more natural barriers to rising seas, hurricanes and severe storms known to hit the Northeast frequently.

Hurricane Patricia, which had winds that clocked in at 200 mph, hit the west coast of Mexico, though its effects were mostly confined to less populated areas.

Hurricane Harvey hit Texas in August 2017, flooding one of the largest metro areas in the United States.

Global warming will also mean more forest fires; hurricanes hitting cities that are at present too far north of the equator to be affected by them; tropical diseases spreading beyond their present zones; the extinction of species unable to adapt to warmer temperatures; retreating glaciers and melting polar icecaps; and rising seas inundating coastal areas.

Based on what happened after hurricanes Wilma and Katrina in 2005, Lagomasino says he'd expect the hardest hit areas of the Everglades to take two to four years to recover if all things were equal.

Students practice teamwork and graph interpretation skills as they study a graph showing 100 years of hurricane data, and then predict what types of hurricanes are most likely to hit a particular area in the future.

They study a graph showing 100 years of hurricane data, and then determine what types of hurricanes are most likely to hit an area in the future.

The generosity can be attributed to Google donating 17,000 of its new Nexus 7 devices to the New York State Community Action Association to commemorate one year of Hurricane Sandy hitting New York and adjoining areas.

Freret hit some hard times after Hurricane Katrina, but it's slowly coming back, and many of the recommendations I received for visiting Crescent City were in the context of all of the other cool things one could do in that area after visiting the shop.

First, our area was hit with what was called an «inland hurricane» where we forced to file a claim as our home received extensive damage.

Hurricane Irma, which struck Florida in early September, is more likely to result in a wave of early stage delinquencies and defaults than Hurricane Harvey, which hit the Houston, Texas area in late August, recent research from Black Knight shows.

We expect to see a rise in the number of bond offerings from the state of Texas, Houston, Corpus Christi, and other issuing authorities in areas that were hit by Hurricane Harvey.

NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun says areas hit by hurricanes two months ago are recovering quickly.

Valparaiso swingman Joe Burton is from the Houston area and his family avoided major damage when Hurricane Harvey hit.

In preparation for this monster hurricane, American Humane is securing its offices and staff in Florida and strategically moving vital equipment, including two 50 - foot emergency rescue vehicles into position so that highly trained workers are poised to deploy and provide rescue and shelter services in the area (s) expected to be hardest hit.

After Hurricane Harvey hit, our expert, bilingual disaster response team sprang to action and headed to areas hardest hit by the storm to ensure that community cats were rescued, received veterinary care, and underwent Trap - Neuter - Return (TNR).

There's no arguing that District G — the district I represent at City Hall — was hardest hit by Hurricane Harvey of any area in the city.

Chicago shelters and rescue groups are opening their doors as Houston animal shelters try to clear space for all the pets stranded by Hurricane Harvey.The groups are taking animals, mostly dogs and cats, that were already in Houston - area shelters before the storm hit Friday.

Both non-profit organizations were hit hard by a hurricane that caused significant damage to coastal areas of New York and New Jersey.

Meanwhile, our water rescue team arrived back Sunday from a weeklong deployment to hurricane - hit areas of Florida, where they helped rescue more than 100 pets.

A flight of 80 pets that survived Hurricane Harvey touched down in Portland on Friday, October 13, helping to relieve the pressure on flood - ravaged shelters in areas hit by the... Read More

Cases of reported feline and canine heartworm infection have increased after hurricanes hit the southeastern United States, sending the disease from endemic areas to all parts of the country.

In early September, Hurricane Irma hit Florida and the surrounding area, leaving over 75,000 people seeking refuge.

It is estimated that major hurricanes have hit this area of coastline some twenty - one times since 1787 when record keeping began.

After hurricane «Fifi», which hit northern Honduras and southern Belize, fishermen from Ambergris Caye diving in the Glover's reef area, reported «hundreds of whales, twenty to thirty ft long» moving between Glover's Atoll and the southern main barrier reef.

A large hurricane hit in 2007 and another in 2012 so the area seems to be in continual restoration.

Please keep in mind that the news are reporting on the parts of the island that were heavily hit by Hurricane Maria, islanders living in the mountains, residential areas that were affected with flooding are the ones facing the most challenges.