Sentences with phrase «of damaging storms»

There are many perks to living in beautiful Guntersville, but homeowners also face a high risk of damaging storms, floods and tornadoes.

The report shows that the US and China will be hardest hit, incurring $ 25 billion and $ 11 billion additional damages respectively, due to the concentration of development along the coasts and the frequency of damaging storms hitting these areas.

He says average rainfall for Australia will decrease, but the extreme weather events will be on the rise, so while you might get less rain over the year it will come in the form of damaging storms and stronger winds which feel like so - called freak events.

They agree global warming will bring higher sea levels and an increase in the frequency and severity of damaging storms (how much and how soon they don't know yet).

With the possibility of damaging storms and floods during spring, April is a great time to remind Green Country pet owners to ensure their pets have current identification.

In 1980, for example, when total disasters barely reached 60, the number of damaging storms was just over 50.

The money was sent to the state in the wake of damaging storms Hurricane Sandy, Hurricane Irene and Hurricane Lee and meant to conduct a tourism campaign for the affected areas, which included swaths of both upstate New York and the New York City metropolitan area.

It represents a failure to recognize the underlying causes of the damage storms inflict, and to seize the very real opportunity we have to head off this damage by taking action now.

President Donald Trump is striking a positive tone regarding his administration's response to Harvey even though it's much too soon to know the scope of the damage the storm has done.

Cuomo's trip to Puerto Rico comes after he's previously visited the island, as well as the U.S. Virgin Islands, in the aftermath of a damaging storm that knocked out power for most of its residents.

In the great storm's aftermath, Elizabeth Asher and John Kane saw a problem: the rescue community was under a tremendous strain because of the damage the storm left in its wake.

It seems insensitive to mention the billions of dollars of damage the storm will cause.

Gadsden is known for its tornado activity and a long history of damaging storm systems.

Not exact matches

When shipping goods from A to B, any number of things can go wrong: cargo gets damaged, a congested port delays docking, a storm throws a vessel off course, pirates raid a ship.

President Donald Trump visited Texas on Tuesday to survey damage from the first major natural disaster to test his leadership in a crisis, as record rainfall from Tropical Storm Harvey lashed Houston and tens of thousands of people fled deluged homes.

Meanwhile, researchers believe a relatively strong geomagnetic storm could inflict $ 2 trillion worth of damage and a recovery effort that'd drag out for months or years.

Speaking as a cartoonish version of himself, Zuckerberg showed viewers some of the damage caused by the recent powerful storms, mentioning, «One of the things that's really magical about virtual reality is you can get the feeling that you're really in a place.»

The storm passed just to the north of the island of Hispaniola, shared by the Dominican Republic and Haiti, damaging roofs and causing flooding and power outages as it approached the Haitian side.

The storm passed just to the north of the island of Hispaniola, shared by Dominican Republic and Haiti, causing some damage to roofs, flooding and power outages as it approached the impoverished Haitian side, which is particularly vulnerable to hurricanes and rain, although it did not make landfall.

(Hurricane Andrew crushed Florida, leaving $ 15.5 billion in damages, which exceeded the total of all insurance premiums ever collected in Dade County up until the storm, according to The New York Times.)

• Commercial property insurance covers everything related to the loss and damage of company property due to events such as wind and hail storms, fire, smoke, civil disobedience, and vandalism.

Harvey is on track to become one of the costliest storms in U.S. history, with an estimates ranging from around $ 75 billion to $ 95 billion in damages, accounting for property damage to cars, homes, commercial buildings and infrastructure.

The National Weather Service has warned of the storm's intensity and strong, damaging winds that can result in downed trees, power outages, and coastal flooding.

CNBC's Morgan Brennan, reports insurers are using advanced technology to monitor and assess damage left in the wake of hurricanes and powerful tropical storms.

Last year, a string of strong hurricanes that hit airlines» hubs cost airlines hundreds of millions of dollars in lost revenue, but clearing runways from a snowstorm is a much faster process than recovering from the floods, power outages, structural damage to airports and other infrastructure damage that 2017's storms caused.

An increasing number of companies want to use drones for things like inspecting rooftops for storm damage.

Estimates for damages caused by Hurricane Harvey are climbing with the storm poised to regain strength in the Gulf of Mexico before crashing back on land.

The storm «totally demolished» the island, damaging upward of 90 % of structures, according to the nation's Prime Minister, Gaston Browne.

Barbuda, Anguilla, the Virgin Islands, and Cuba were hit by the worst of the storm, with some islands reporting that 90 % of their structures were damaged or destroyed.

As the wettest storm on record in US history bore down in the last days of August — dropping five feet of rain in some areas — completely inundating Houston, killing more than 70 people, and damaging almost 200,000 homes, at least five prisons on the east coast of Texas were evacuated.

It can be difficult to determine whether such pollutants were released as a result of the storm's damage to facilities, or were voluntarily released by refinery operators themselves in the course of shut - down activities.

Orlando is another city in Florida that is generally safe from the damaging storms that plague the south of the peninsula.

By far the most common cause of blackouts is damage to power lines, which are the most vulnerable part of the electrical grid to storms.

With Irma's last - minute course change, many insurers breathed a sigh of relief as the storm caused less damage than expected, but the industry as a whole is facing growing anxiety about future tallies.

The extent of the damage is unknown given that dozens of municipalities remained isolated and without communication after Maria hit the island Wednesday morning as a Category 4 storm with 155 mph winds, the strongest hurricane to hit Puerto Rico in over 80 years.

«I will say we are seeing storms that are causing large amounts of damage,» Erickson said.

Immediately after Hurricane Irma's eye passed over the Florida Keys, massive damage to the Lower and Middle Keys was apparent where hundreds of homes and businesses were destroyed by high winds and a huge storm surge.

After surveying Hurricane Harvey damage in Corpus Christi on Tuesday, President Donald Trump addressed victims of the storm and praised those who had gathered to hear his remarks, «What a crowd, what a turn out.»

The purpose of Trump's visit to Texas was to survey damage and coordinate federal support for the storm - ravaged area.

... It may have been a strong storm, and it may have caused a lot of problems anyway — but [human - caused climate change] amplifies the damage considerably.»

While you take notice of the boats ripped from their mooring and washing out to sea, note that the surge and storm were even more powerful at its epicenter over Big Pine Key, culminating in a 10 foot surge based upon waterlines we saw firsthand among damaged homes.

KEY WEST — After Hurricane Irma tore through the Florida Keys, T.J. Reynolds was told he had to leave the house he was renting because of damage from the storm.

«In conclusion, while we can not say climate change «caused» hurricane Harvey (that is an ill - posed question), we can say that it exacerbate several characteristics of the storm in a way that greatly increased the risk of damage and loss of life,» Mann wrote.

Damage and flooding was reported in some coastal communities that saw more than 500,000 people evacuate ahead of the storm.

While many, thankfully, were spared the full brunt of the storm, I know quite a few people whose homes were destroyed or severely damaged and others who lost many of their belongings.

After the storm, despite significant damage and outages, the center accepted baby squirrels thrown out of trees, sea birds blown off course and raccoons driven by hunger into harm's way.

Irma is expected by some experts to top Harvey's damage, given the size of the storm and the population that was in its path.

Some of the worst damage appeared to be in Rockport, a coastal city of about 10,000 that was directly in the storm's path.

The recent severe storms have been devastating for residents of two populous regions of the country (Houston and Florida), but the bulk of the economic damage should be localized while the long - term impact to the national economy is limited.

Most of the damage was caused by storm surges that overwhelmed the levee system.