Sentences with phrase «left the island in»

The Category 4 storm with 150 mph winds and 36 inches of rainfall toppled 80 percent of the island's power lines and flooded its generators last September, leaving the island in the longest and largest blackout in US history.

Exacerbated by this, young Puerto Ricans faced with limited job prospects have left the island in droves to come to the mainland, where they can live and work without having to obtain a visa.

HHI's last team of 2017 left the island in late December, but Heart to Heart International's work in Puerto Rico is not finished.

New York's Puerto Rican population began growing significantly in the 1950s and»60s as people left the island in search of economic opportunity.

The government's environmental agency, Ibama, now faces a dilemma: should it leave the island in this new state of balance, or should it allow the teju to be hunted?

After leaving the island in 2015, Dr. Mead traveled to the University of Georgia School of Veterinary Medicine to complete her clinical training.

The last Aborigines left the island in 1904 when the Aboriginal mission at Bogimbah was closed.

Quite predictably, prices in Bali have risen again since I last left the island in late 2012.

Not exact matches

While trafficking routes have changed over time, in recent years narco subs and other vessels leaving southwest Colombia or northwest Ecuador laden with drug cargos often head out in the Pacific, even around the Galapagos Islands, before turning north in an effort to skirt law enforcement closer to home — which may include underwater sensors in Colombian waters — as well as US - led interdiction efforts.

In May, the weather dips into the 70s, sending the majority of tourists packing and leaving much of the island for yourself.

But the wildfires in Sonoma and Napa county were more like the hurricanes that ravaged Necker Island in that scientists attribute their ferocity to climate change: specifically, unprecedented heat waves that killed trees and dried out underbrush, leaving huge amounts of fuel for the flames.

In an interview with Business Insider's Aly Weisman, Branson revealed that he wakes up at about 5:45 in the morning, even when staying at his private island, leaving the curtains drawn so the sun gets him uIn an interview with Business Insider's Aly Weisman, Branson revealed that he wakes up at about 5:45 in the morning, even when staying at his private island, leaving the curtains drawn so the sun gets him uin the morning, even when staying at his private island, leaving the curtains drawn so the sun gets him up.

But as jet engines replaced turboprops, the island airport's runway was simply too short to handle the aircraft, leaving Pearson International Airport, located a 40 - minute drive from downtown, to capture the growth in air travel.

Isle of Wight, the largest and second most populous island in England, has spoken — it's a resounding «Leave» vote.

The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) has yet to recover fully from the devastation wrought by Hurricane Maria, which in late September knocked out power to the entire island and left all 3.4 million residents of the U.S. territory in the dark and killed dozens of people.

Ivy Mike's detonation was so powerful that it vaporized the Elugelab Island where it was detonated, leaving in its place a 164 - foot - deep crater.

Obama's visit in March 2016 had left Cuban leaders ambivalent about the hand of friendship he extended: Fidel Castro, ailing and almost 90, stirred from his retirement to attack the American president's «syrupy words,» and what he saw as an insidious plea for Cubans to forget the Americans» dark history with the island.

Irma first struck the tiny island of Barbuda in the Caribbean, leaving the island «barely habitable,» according to its prime minister.

January 2018 — Present / Puerto Rico In the Fall of 2017, Hurricane Maria's 155 mph ferocious winds plowed through the island of Puerto Rico, leaving a trail of destruction in its wakIn the Fall of 2017, Hurricane Maria's 155 mph ferocious winds plowed through the island of Puerto Rico, leaving a trail of destruction in its wakin its wake.

In the Fall of 2017, Hurricane Maria's 155 mph ferocious winds plowed through the island of Puerto Rico, leaving a trail of destruction in its wakIn the Fall of 2017, Hurricane Maria's 155 mph ferocious winds plowed through the island of Puerto Rico, leaving a trail of destruction in its wakin its wake.

It's been nearly two months since the hurricane made landfall on Puerto Rico and knocked out 80 percent of power transmission lines, leaving the entire island in the dark.

Clockwise from top left: Construction jobs on Long Island are down slightly, home prices in Nassau and Suffolk Counties rose, Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone wants to develop a «new suburbia,» and apartments are planned at the now demolished Nassau - Suffolk Lumber and Supply Corp. in Smithtown.

Perhaps the worst blow from Maria was the 150 mph winds that knocked down 80 percent of the island's power transmission lines and 85 percent of its cellphone towers, leaving people in the dark and struggling to contact each other.

The intensity of Hurricane Maria, which made landfall on Puerto Rico as a Category 4 storm on September 20, was part of why it was so devastating to the island and its weak infrastructure, leaving Puerto Ricans in a humanitarian crisis.

These associates were left in need by Hurricanes Irma and Maria, and Marriott Vacations Worldwide associates «Filled the Containers» with over 10,000 pounds of basic supplies that have been difficult to find on the island since the hurricanes.

After Puerto Rico was pummeled by Hurricane Maria last week, a Category 4 hurricane with 150 mph winds, the island has been left in shambles.

Trucks are incapable of passing through some of the physically damaged areas left by Hurricane Maria, and, in turn, sectors of the island continue to be isolated with limited supplies of cash.

The agency started daily reports on Hurricane Maria, which has wreaked chaos in Puerto Rico and left the island without power or working phone or internet, three days later.

• Brevard County Emergency Management officials announced a mandatory order for more than 100,000 residents living on Merritt Island, an area near the Kennedy Space Center in central Florida, and along the coastal areas to leave their homes and condominiums beginning 3 p.m. Friday.

3) Hurricane Maria killed 27 people in Dominica — where even the prime minister was left homeless: An island to the east of Puerto Rico, Dominica was also shredded by Maria.

Puerto Rican high school and college graduates have been leaving the island at high rates since the recession began, looking for better paying jobs in the United States.

A related ongoing development is that in response to Puerto Rico's economic woes, Puerto Rican people have increasingly chosen to leave the island.

The legacy of US colonialism in Puerto Rico, and the island's current status as a US protectorate, has left the island's government without the resources to provide basic services as it struggles to pay off its debts, and at the same time has made it nearly impossible to call on help from other countries.

The tech giant has found a tax haven in the island of Jersey, leaving billions of dollars untouched by the United States, leaked documents reveal.

Clementi, a 1991 graduate of Racine's St. Catherine's High School, spent a week on the island of St. Thomas in January, working to clear debris left in the wake of back - to - back hurricanes Irma and Maria.

«We're going to continue giving them all the help we've been giving them to rebuild the island, from a power point of view, etc.,» Cuomo said at the airport in the morning, before leaving for Puerto Rico.

You can leave this country at anytime, just do not change our way of life this country fought for... if this way of thinking continues in the United States of America you will be saluting a different flag... these people who think this way can go live in any other foreign country or go to an island and start your own country, with your own beliefs, sick of the ACLU running this country

Tourists leave the island, options dwindle, and the highway leads to a reckoning in the desert.

Those who have a brain and think for themselves see that is is bunk (see the «invisible pink unicorn» comments), leaving those of us who still believe in a higher power and seek spiritual understanding on an island.

In Romans, Barth said that the Word of God can be uttered only when the predicate Deus revelatus has as its subject Deus absconditus31 The vast ocean of so - called reality that is the profane world of a completely autonomous mode of human existence has left the island of the sacred completely submerged.

Suspended by Arabella Dorman is a collection of hundreds of items of refugee clothing found mainly on beaches on the Greek island of Lesbos and garments left behind in the camps of Calais.

In about 562, moved «by the love of Christ», he left Ireland and with twelve companions established a base on the rocky island of Iona, off the Scottish coast, from where he evangelized the mainland of Scotland and Northumbria.

For unless we tell the truth to one another we'll be nothing but isolated islands, left to fend for ourselves in an untrustworthy and scary world.

In Bimini, on the old Spanish Main, a daughter of the island once said to me: «Those as hunts treasure must go alone, at night, and when they find it, they must leave a little of their blood behind them.»

Between 1899 and 1914 it rallied 4,521 missionaries to leave American shores to work in China, India, Africa, and the Pacific islands.

Its 155 - mph winds knocked out electricity to the entire island, leaving its 3.4 million people in the dark.

Hi Mark, well I was born in the Falkland Islands or as the people from Argentina prefer to call her the Malvinas I left there with my Mum when I was 7 and came to Old Blighty.

She left her beloved island home of Haiti to officially begin her midwifery training in the Philippines at the age of 52.

A strange thing happened in Indonesia last fall: The armed Islamic extremists who terrorized churches on the Maluku and Sulawesi islands for nearly three years suddenly left.

A localized tsunami has killed 23 people and left over 160 missing on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia.