Sentences with phrase «of hurricanes of»

Secondly, with warmer air temperatures, rainfall rates near the heart of the hurricanes of 2100 will be 20 % higher - increasing the potential for flooding.
He has also shown the effect of hurricanes of short duration, less than two or four days, on the trend of hurricanes over the past century.
Another question we must ask is: will greater numbers of hurricanes of Category 4 or 5 strength make landfall as a result of climate change (due to SSTs warming along with, but at a slower rate and with some time lag as, the atmosphere)?
There have been any number of libraries and library directors who have found themselves in the midst of hurricanes of controversy over plans to vastly eliminate or move the collections of their libraries.
Her line readings are delightfully unexpected, and, while so many other players in long - running series dial up their characters into loud caricatures as their shows trudge on, Dunham still feels very in control of the hurricane of ambling angst that is Hannah Horvath.
Landsea became the center of a hurricane of his own after Katrina struck and climate scientists and administration officials wrangled over the likelihood of Katrina being caused by global warming.

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By Saturday up to 200 employees drafted from merchandising, logistics, supply chain and human resources teams were marshaling people and goods from Home Depot's buzzing five - room command center filled with monitors tracking the storm and maps of the hurricane region pasted on walls.
After Hurricane Henry (Texas) and Hurricane Irma (Florida) devastated parts of those states this fall, SBA Disaster Loans helped get small business owners get back up and running.
June 1 is the beginning of the 2013 hurricane season.
By Aug. 31, Home Depot had sent about 700 truckloads of supplies to its Texas stores in the path of the hurricane.
Burt Flickinger, managing director of retail consultancy Strategic Resource Group estimates it cost the retailer about $ 50 million to deal with hurricanes Rita and Katrina in 2005 and expects Harvey's costs to top that.
After Hurricane Sandy barreled into the New Jersey shoreline in late October of 2012, Home Depot attributed $ 242 million of fourth quarter sales to a boost in business arising from the repairs.
Hurricane Sandy paralyzed businesses throughout some of the most densely populated places in the country as the center of the 500 - mile - wide storm barreled ashore in the mid-Atlantic states.
In 2005, he spent weeks in New Orleans as part of NBC's team coverage of Hurricane Katrina, for which he shared a national Emmy, an RTNDA Edward R. Murrow Award and broadcast's highest honor, the Peabody Award.
Last week, President Donald Trump came under fire after his responses to a plea for help from the mayor of San Juan were perceived by many as being racist and issuing blame on the hurricane victims.
In the process, social media turned into a real - time record of small business survival tactics during Hurricane Sandy.
The company, with annual sales of $ 95 billion, first identified hurricane response as a strategic need after Hurricane Andrew, 25 yhurricane response as a strategic need after Hurricane Andrew, 25 yHurricane Andrew, 25 years ago.
In its way stood Prime Minister Winston Churchill and the recently formed RAF Fighter Command, which could field the Hawker Hurricane and the Supermarine Spitfire, some of the best fighter aircraft in the world at the time.
«As each natural disaster goes by, we hone our processes already in place so we can react quicker and faster the next time this happens,» said Pete Capel, a 26 - year Home Depot veteran and merchandising executive in charge of the hurricane command center.
After Hurricane Harvey devastated parts of the Gulf Coast and brought up to 50 inches of rain to parts of Houston, the US military and state National Guard joined in rescue and recovery efforts.
«Really the success of that product isn't how many people buy it, in our mind, but how many people don't buy it and choose another product,» he said, after the company reported better - than - expected profits for a quarter plagued by deadly hurricanes.
BaubleBar, the purveyor of women's jewelry with a retail store in New York's Flatiron district, echoed that sentiment on their Facebook page: «Because of Hurricane Sandy, The Bar will be closed Monday - Weds!
Not even one of the worst hurricane seasons in history has thrown the stock off course: Total revenue has grown more than 13 % — and net income nearly 43 % — over the past 12 months.
But trucks still rolled out of a dedicated warehouse, stocked with hurricane defense and recovery products, located in Baytown, just 30 miles from downtown Houston.
«If your house is going to be struck by a wall of air or a tornado or a hurricane, you want to be in a place that is structurally sound.»
Organize Your Workspace: The Sources of Clutter Just because your office looks like a hurricane hit it doesn't necessarily mean you are disorganized.
Melania Trump's office is pushing back after the first lady ignited some controversy by emerging for her visit to hurricane - stricken Texas in a pair of stiletto heels.
Trump issued a statement about her desire to offer assistance the victims of the hurricane Tuesday evening.
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway stood by U.S. airlines in the third quarter, even as carriers were hit by three massive hurricanes, a spike in fuel prices and heavy selling of airline shares by other investors.
Blue Collar Millionaires «Diva of Demolition» When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, Simone Bruni went from being a corporate event planner to unemployed and homeless.
«Generally speaking, the US gets about a D + for things like this,» Vivek Shandas, an urban - planning professor at Portland State University, told Business Insider after the fall's triple threat of hurricanes lashed Puerto Rico and mainland US.
President Donald Trump is donating $ 1 million of his own wealth to Hurricane Harvey victims, the White House said Thursday.
For The Amazing Spider - Man 2, her efforts led to the use of biodegradable snow, the use of steel and glass materials that could be re-purposed after the film wrapped, and replanting trees and fixing benches in a Hurricane Sandy - damaged area for a scene.
The week after Hurricane Maria slammed Puerto Rico and unleashed the single largest blackout in US history, Blake Richetta, the senior vice president of a renewable - energy company called Sonnen, boarded a plane bound for the island.
In 2005, for instance, the quick succession of Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita cooled the waters below as they passed over Florida, sparing the Florida Keys from a serious coral bleaching event affecting the Caribbean.
Most companies have insurance policies designed to cover the more obvious financial ramifications of incidents like fires, floods, or hurricanes.
Of all the watches in AVI - 8's collection, though (and there are a bunch), the Hawker Hurricane AV - 4011 is the one that should land on your wrist.
In a column for The Washington Post earlier this month, Ron Klain, who served as chief of staff for the vice presidents Al Gore and Joe Biden, said August could be extremely dangerous for Trump and the administration, highlighting the threat of a major hurricane as a top reason.
But, as a fellow California resident, I do recommend keeping (fire - and thief - safe) cash as part of an emergency kit for earthquakes, fires, hurricanes and tornadoes.
The potential crisis comes in the form of a massive hurricane gaining strength off the southeast coast of Texas in the Gulf of Mexico.
Forecasters predict that Hurricane Harvey could slam the Texas coast right before the weekend as a Category 3 storm, bringing winds in excess of 125 mph and dumping more than 25 inches of rain.
The coastal city of Rockport, Texas, located near the point where the hurricane initially made landfall, also sustained extreme damage.
Royal Caribbean Is Using a Cruise Ship to Evacuate Employees from Miami Ahead of Hurricane Irma
The storm surge — the quick rise in water caused by a hurricane's strong winds — crested several feet at the height of the storm on the Texas coast.
In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, for instance, Palantir engineers developed a plug - in that let volunteers collect requests for assistance in real time using their smartphones.
Many of the deaths during Hurricane Rita in 2005 occurred as people tried to evacuate.
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.
Harvey was downgraded to a tropical depression on Wednesday night, but many parts of Texas and western Louisiana were still underwater a week after the hurricane started.
«After witnessing first hand the horror & devastation caused by Hurricane Harvey, my heart goes out even more so to the great people of Texas!»
I've been dealing with my own unique stress, reflecting on my anniversary escaping Hurricane Katrina, selling my popular app Cuddlr and transitioning out of a 3 am daily work routine.
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