Sentences with phrase «major hurricane events»

Whether it's a homeless dog being relocated following a major hurricane event, a canine companion accompanying his owner on vacation or a show dog traveling for competition or exhibition, road trips can be life - enhancing — or even lifesaving — for dogs.

Not exact matches

True there could be a major event ahead (hurricane or war) but also true that the market now has a huge fear risk premium which may subside.

Major events that are now happening such as hurricanes, earthquakes, and flooding are not caused by God, as a judgment from him.

The Texas Tribune and ProPublica last year published a multi-part investigation looking at what would happen if Houston was hit by a major hurricane, determining the city and region were woefully unprepared for such an event.

For a major event like Hurricane Sandy, more than 20 million tweets were posted over a five - day period, providing an even bigger bounty of data (and of course, a lot of noise).

According to fossil evidence, small primates — a group of mammals that includes humans and our closest monkey relatives — first arrived in Jamaica during the Miocene (23 million to 25 million years ago), probably on mats of vegetation that can form during major weather events, like hurricanes, that could have carried them from the American mainland.

The second, meanwhile, is that we have had devastating flooding of a major city from a hurricane event in each of the last three presidencies, even as the climate hurricane debate has grown steadily more insistent.

Sept. 28, 2017 - In the event of a major earthquake, hurricane or flood, electricity might be lost for days, affecting communications, recovery efforts and people's lives.

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.

After seeing the devastation in Texas following Hurricane Harvey, and the developing situation with Irma in Florida, we wanted to take a moment to share some of the fantastic tips we have found to help keep your pet safe and with you during a major weather event.

October 25th should have seen the highly - anticipated World Travel Awards Caribbean & North America Gala Ceremony 2014 take place in Anguilla, however, following Hurricane Gonzalo, and the major damage caused to the island's infrastructure, World Travel Awards was left with no choice but to postpone that event.

One, «Course of Empire,» inspired by a series of paintings by Ed Ruscha, looks at how artists have responded to major global events, including 9/11, Hurricane Katrina and the financial catastrophe of 2008.

Katrina was the most feared of all meteorological events, a major hurricane making landfall in a highly - populated low - lying region.

-- Increases in intensity and frequency of heat waves and extreme precipitation events (a category in which it includes droughts, floods, hurricanes and major storms)

This has also been a year of notable extreme weather events, with climate change playing a role in helping to strengthen the major hurricanes that hit the US and Caribbean.

Countless articles assured us that the seas were rising and would swamp major coastal cities, that all the polar bears were drowning, and that every natural climate event from hurricanes to tornadoes was caused by global warming.

The Northeast is often affected by extreme events such as ice storms, floods, droughts, heat waves, hurricanes, and major storms in the Atlantic Ocean off the northeast coast, referred to as nor» easters.

Not only would these help us avoid the fate of New Orleans in a major hurricane, they could also help preserve large parts of our city in the event of sea level rise!

The probabilities for at least one major U.S. hurricane during the other two phases are much higher: 58 % for neutral conditions and 63 % during a cold event.

During the past 98 years, no El Niño event has ever been associated with more than one major U.S. hurricane.

The United States is much more likely to see a major hurricane during neutral or cold events than during El Niño.

«In general, we see an increase in inquiries (and general awareness of travel insurance) whenever there are major global events such as hurricanes, terror attacks, pandemics, etc.,» said Bob Chambers, head of operations, Generali Global Assistance.

Even though Katrina was the first major disaster he had lived through as a business owner — impact from previous hurricanes was limited to two or three days of lost work time — Lamy had been careful to secure his data files just in case of such an event.