Sentences with phrase «seaboard hurricane»

I know it sounds terrible, and I wish it weren't true, but maybe we'll get «lucky» and an 1821 - type Eastern seaboard hurricane will come long and WAKE PEOPLE UP?

Not exact matches

As Hurricane Sandy battered the US eastern seaboard that night, the many universities, labs and research stations in its path would feel the effects of power outages, damaging winds and flooding.

The satellite photo above shows Hurricane Sandy looming over the eastern seaboard on Monday, October 29.

Florida and areas on the Gulf of Mexico are wracked by hurricanes; New England and the Atlantic seaboard are battered by winter storms; the Midwest is a tornado - prone region; and counties along the Mississippi River are subject to recurrent flooding.

So far they have no way of computing the risk of an undersea landslide there, and thus the possibility of a large tsunami submerging the mid-Atlantic seaboard — although it's surely less imminent than the next major hurricane.

By the time Hurricane Sandy slammed the eastern seaboard last year, social media had become an integral part of disaster response, filling the void in areas where cell phone service was lost while millions of Americans looked to resources including Twitter and Facebook to keep informed, locate loved ones, notify authorities and express support.

«The interval when Columbus is exploring the New World is this interval where we're seeing increased hurricane activity along the eastern seaboard of the U.S.,» Jeffrey Donnelly, a Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution palaeoclimatologist, said.

KNOXVILLE — Restoring diverse vegetation along the Atlantic seaboard after devastating hurricanes or replanting forests after destructive wildfires rests mightily upon one tiny but important ingredient: the seed.

As Hurricane Joaquin starts heading up the Eastern seaboard, Central Veterinary Associates (CVA) is cautioning pet owners to remember their pets in their emergency preparedness plans.

The Caribbean, Florida, and the Southern States are accustomed to hurricanes, and awareness is now greater along the eastern seaboard of the U.S. Over the years well - developed hurricane monitoring, education and response procedures have greatly reduced loss of life and infrastructure damage.

If the vertical wind shear over the Atlantic MDR is expected to increase, wouldn't we expect hurricanes to be steered farther to the east, climatologically, and therefore to pose less of a threat to most of the eastern seaboard?

Unlike hurricanes that are powered by latent heat from warm sea surfaces, extra-tropical winter storms along the eastern seaboard are primarily powered by the pressure gradient produced by the contrast between the cold continent and warm Gulf Stream.

I know that tornadoes dot the German Rhine where no tornadoes were seen before, I know hurricanes on the Eastern seaboard are behaving differently, I know that Crete was so dry when I saw it that I couldn't imagine olive trees growing there without irrigation, I know that our highways are a half kilometer wide and countless kilometers long, with thousands upon thousands of idling cars sitting on them, ten times a week for as long as I've been alive, and I know that sea captains don't want to traverse the Indian ocean because the almanacs are no longer reasonable guides to chart how long a given voyage from one port to the next might take.

In fact, Sandy traveled up the Atlantic coast and turned left «toward the most populated area along the eastern seaboard» and converged with an extratropical cyclone; this, in turn, fed the weakening Hurricane Sandy and transformed it into a monster tempest.

Last year highly unusual Hurricane Irene devastated large parts of the US eastern seaboard with estimated damage of $ 15.6 billion.

For example, they may need to answer questions such as: Will a high pressure system park itself over New England, and prevent a hurricane from moving up along the eastern seaboard?

This state is particularly vulnerable to storm damage, with its location on the eastern seaboard, making it a good idea to consider New Jersey hurricane insurance.

As a state along the eastern seaboard, Maryland is susceptible to damages caused by hurricanes and tropical storms.

Because of this these towns are more exposed to large storms and even hurricanes that work their way up the eastern seaboard bringing with them damaging wind and rain.

Thousands of flights have been cancelled due to threatening weather conditions across the Eastern seaboard from Hurricane Sandy, leaving travelers scrambling to rebook and make alternate travel arrangements.

«We had some disruptions from Hurricane Irene in the closing weekend of August, when many sales normally are finalized, along the Eastern seaboard and in New England,» Yun said.