Sentences with phrase «latest hurricane disaster»

I said it was tacky to promote a for - profit corporation in the business of making hurricane forecasts before the bodies are cold in this latest hurricane disaster.

Not exact matches

Ahead of this latest Hurricane Maria response program, JetBlue donated $ 1 million in much - needed disaster recovery supplies and more than 100,000 aid - related items to Puerto Rico.

Just a week later, Hurricane Maria would form and eventually knock out Puerto Rico's power grid, setting off a terrible ongoing humanitarian disaster.

Even as southeast Texas was still feeling the effects of Hurricane Harvey in late August, several ASCE members began making plans to gather data from the disaster that will make rebuilding more resilient.

The panelists in this late - breaking plenary, organized to address the recent spate of natural disasters, will discuss the challenges of covering earthquakes, hurricanes, wildfires, and other events.

Morath's decision followed a Dec. 11 letter from Gov. Greg Abbott urging Morath to seek a federal accountability waiver and to relax the STAAR requirements for fifth - and eighth - graders in the 47 counties declared federal disaster areas following Hurricane Harvey's landfall in late August.

As a result of Hurricane Sandy, a major disaster was declared in late 2012 for areas of 12 states and the District of Columbia affected by Hurricane Sandy.

He followed it two years later with Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina & New Orleans, a graphic novel that explores not only the environmental disaster and its impact on the city but also the shocking bureaucratic catastrophe that followed it.

The idea returns yet later in discussions of the ongoing, multiple health stresses experienced by the rural poor in Honduras, making them less able to handle the effects of any additional stresses, such as those resulting from environmental disasters like Hurricane Mitch in 1998.

They cite the latest weather / climate disasters as proof: the current heat wave / drought in the Midwest, the Russian Heat Wave of 2010, the Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the list is endless.

I think, then, that it was the intention of this site to provide the sober scientific analysis of the facts behind the hype of the press stories, such that people wouldn't over-react to the latest natural disaster and then over-compensate when we had a year with below - normal hurricanes / tornadoes and assume that the scientist's had shouted «Wolf!»

Air pressure changes, allergies increase, Alps melting, anxiety, aggressive polar bears, algal blooms, Asthma, avalanches, billions of deaths, blackbirds stop singing, blizzards, blue mussels return, boredom, budget increases, building season extension, bushfires, business opportunities, business risks, butterflies move north, cannibalistic polar bears, cardiac arrest, Cholera, civil unrest, cloud increase, cloud stripping, methane emissions from plants, cold spells (Australia), computer models, conferences, coral bleaching, coral reefs grow, coral reefs shrink, cold spells, crumbling roads, buildings and sewage systems, damages equivalent to $ 200 billion, Dengue hemorrhagic fever, dermatitis, desert advance, desert life threatened, desert retreat, destruction of the environment, diarrhoea, disappearance of coastal cities, disaster for wine industry (US), Dolomites collapse, drought, drowning people, drowning polar bears, ducks and geese decline, dust bowl in the corn belt, early spring, earlier pollen season, earthquakes, Earth light dimming, Earth slowing down, Earth spinning out of control, Earth wobbling, El Nià ± o intensification, erosion, emerging infections, encephalitis,, Everest shrinking, evolution accelerating, expansion of university climate groups, extinctions (ladybirds, pandas, pikas, polar bears, gorillas, whales, frogs, toads, turtles, orang - utan, elephants, tigers, plants, salmon, trout, wild flowers, woodlice, penguins, a million species, half of all animal and plant species), experts muzzled, extreme changes to California, famine, farmers go under, figurehead sacked, fish catches drop, fish catches rise, fish stocks decline, five million illnesses, floods, Florida economic decline, food poisoning, footpath erosion, forest decline, forest expansion, frosts, fungi invasion, Garden of Eden wilts, glacial retreat, glacial growth, global cooling, glowing clouds, Gore omnipresence, Great Lakes drop, greening of the North, Gulf Stream failure, Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, harvest increase, harvest shrinkage, hay fever epidemic, heat waves, hibernation ends too soon, hibernation ends too late, human fertility reduced, human health improvement, hurricanes, hydropower problems, hyperthermia deaths, ice sheet growth, ice sheet shrinkage, inclement weather, Inuit displacement, insurance premium rises, invasion of midges, islands sinking, itchier poison ivy, jellyfish explosion, Kew Gardens taxed, krill decline, landslides, landslides of ice at 140 mph, lawsuits increase, lawyers» income increased (surprise surprise!)

The dramatic display was the latest chapter of a chemical disaster, caused, in part, by floodwaters from Hurricane Harvey.

Taking into consideration the latest weather disasters, adding insurance cover for hurricane or floods can also be a wise decision.

«Even with all the national attention after Hurricane Katrina, five years later millions of Americans still have not taken even some of the most basic steps to prepare for the potentially devastating impact of a major disaster,» says Robert Rusbuldt, Big «I» president & CEO.

Shortly after Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast with deadly force late last year, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Ad Council in a nationwide campaign asked Americans to be alert to discrimination of the disaster victims, a majority of whom were minorities.