Sentences with phrase «like hurricane irene»

With events like Hurricane Irene, the Texas drought and the Midwest floods, 2011 has already set a record for billion dollar weather disasters.

The ASPCA Field Investigations and Response team frequently responds to natural disasters, including other major events like Hurricane Irene and the Joplin, Missouri, tornado in 2011, Hurricanes Gustav and Ike in 2008, and Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005, in addition to being called upon by state and municipal governments and other animal welfare partners to lend expertise during large - scale animal rescue operations.

With events like Hurricane Irene, the Texas drought and the Midwest floods, 2011 has already set a record for billion dollar weather disasters.

Sibling «I Hate You» stories are formed like hurricane Irene - stalking up the east coast this week.

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But memories of hurricanes like Sandy and Irene, as well as tropical storm Lee, have led Gov. Andrew Cuomo to create the Citizen Preparedness Corps in hopes of training New Yorkers to be their own first responders.

«As communities in New York recover from Hurricane Irene, will Representative Chris Gibson let his Republican Leadership hold disaster relief funding until draconian cuts are made to things like Medicare and education?»

The damage from storms like Sandy — and Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee, which all caused devastating flooding in northeastern states --- was, and continues to be, so severe and complex that two years later recovery efforts are still underway.

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.

«Devastating floods like those caused in upstate New York by the remnants of Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee are among the climate change effects predicted in a new report written by 50 scientists and released Wednesday by the state's energy research agency,» the Associated Press reported on November 16.

I don't know all the details of your case, but I'd like to point out that travel insurance is designed to cover a wide range of unforeseen events, and Hurricane Irene became a foreseeable event on August 22.