Sentences with phrase «system after the storm»

He was widely praised for he quick restoration of the subway system after the storm.

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Sanfilippo also included recommendations for data retrieval and IT systems recovery after the storm.

(A New York Times analysis of the same data from Puerto Rico's Vital Statistics System also found that in the 42 days after the storm hit, 1,052 more people than usual died across the island.)

That's why most utilities don't try to make the power system invulnerable but instead focus on getting power back up quickly after a storm.

The outages have already proven to be one of the storm's deadliest effects: Eight people died and 115 were evacuated from a Hollywood, Florida, nursing home after the air conditioning system went out during the storm.

And shifting away from big, centralized power plants and large power grids toward smaller distributed systems does confer some advantages when it comes to standing up to storms and rebuilding after.

After Sophocles, Shakespeare, and Stevens we are well prepared for the «sensitive dependence on initial conditions» that in chaos theory is given the poetic name of the Butterfly Effect: «the notion that a butterfly stirring the air today in Peking can transform storm systems next month in New York.»

According to the bible, a storm free and predation free nature system should return after the earth gets back to a paradise status (this required an «event» again, called armageddon)

Last week, Nolan said that the school district was granted a storm - water permit after it «improperly represented (to the village) that they had permission to use Park District property as part of their retention system.»

«Cuomo was all too eager to launch a Moreland Commission to investigate LIPA after Hurricane Sandy in order to channel New Yorkers» frustrations with storm readiness away from his office, but if he really has the interests of New Yorkers in mind, and not politics, he'll appoint a Moreland Commission to scrub Medicaid clean from top to bottom and put in place a restructured, clean and affordable Medicaid system for New York,» GOP Chairman Ed Cox said.

Authorities believe 28 - year old Brandon Closure was swept away into the city's storm sewer system, after he accidentally stepped into an open manhole blown open by surging rain water.

Reilly, Lander, and Heyer all express concerns that neither the mayor's plan nor the federal government's addresses the antiquated infrastructure that allows for combined sewer overflow, which means storm water and raw sewage enter the canal via the same drainage system after even moderate rains.

Years after captaining the HMS Beagle with a certain Charles Darwin aboard, FitzRoy promoted the first formal storm - alert system and coined the term weather forecast.

A year after surviving a storm over awarding what some called extravagant salaries to dozens of senior administrators of the University of California (UC), the president of the 10 - campus system is stepping down.

Traver surveyed Katrina's destruction firsthand after the storm, serving as a member of the ASCE External Review Panel that helped the Corps investigate the hurricane protection system's catastrophic breakdown.

Maunakea, Hawaii — Striking images of a storm system nearly the size of Earth have astronomers doing a double - take after pinpointing its location near Neptune's equator, a region where no bright cloud has ever been seen before.

He has studied and published on how avian and vegetation systems re-assemble after disturbances such as wildfire, wind - throw and ice storms, and after incidences of forest disease in Boreal ecosystems of North America.

After stalking the Style Savvy crowd we headed to see Passion Pit perform and yes we danced so hard, the warm desert breeze came as the sun went down ready for LCD Sound system and of course headliner of the night Jay - Z who finished off the night with a storm, bringing Beyonce onto the stage wasn't a bad idea either everyone went wild.

This week, residents throughout the Midwest are coming to grips with how to rebuild their lives after an intense storm system produced a reported 76 tornados across the middle of the Nation on Sunday.

Unlike the Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm series which is more and more a mess of technical, balance and gameplay issues these days, Brave Soldiers delivers what is a nice, franchise - based fighting game, at first, i was expecting a simple fighting game with some button mashing, however, the game proved me wrong and i fell in love, the combo system, while easy, is a lot more deep than the one in the Naruto games, with all of the characters having two special attacks, two «burst attacks», a knock - away and a launcher respectively, a throw and an ultimate attack (called a «Big Bang Attack»), every character also has an universal dodge - action that sends them behind their enemies while spending one cosmo bar, making bar management that much precious and shielding you from a half - a-hour combo, unlike in the NUNS series, the fighting and the characters are nicely balanced, with every character being fun to play and viable at the same time, the game runs smoothly without frame - rate issues and the cell - shaded graphics, character models, arenas and effects alike are nice to the eye, battles are divided into rounds, with all the tiny nice stuff like character introductions and outros being intact (fun fact: the characters will even comment on their score after the battle), the game also features an awakening system, called the «Seventh Sense» awakening, unlike the NUNS awakening system which became severely unbalanced in the later game, every character simply gains a damage / defense boost, with the conditions being the same for all characters, eliminating situations when one character can use awakening at almost any point in the battle, or one awakening being drastically stronger than the other, the game has a story mode with three story arcs used to unlock characters, a collection mode, tournament modes, a survival mode, a series of special versus modes and online battle modes.

After the storm, the public school system was effectively dissolved and control of most of the city's schools was placed into a state agency.

In a special session of the Louisiana Legislature less than two months after the storm, with much of the population still displaced, lawmakers significantly changed the threshold for «failing» and allowed for the takeover of a failing district — a clear response to a school system in crisis that couldn't even open its doors.

After it amazed everyone during this year Paris Motor Show, Mitsubishi stormed also the Los Angeles Motor Show with the same eX Concept, a compact SUV with a next - generation EV system.

The Outlook I drove to Chicago and back did have six standard air bags, including curtain bags to protect passengers in all three rows of seats, antilock brakes, electronic stability control and a sensitive all - wheel - drive system that kept the SUV steady and stable as I passed one jackknifed truck after another following a snow - and - ice storm in western Michigan.

Santa Cruz also offers Hyundai's HTRAC All - wheel drive system, so there's no anxiety about getting those snowboarding «fresh tracks» right after a storm moves through.

Photo Credit: Adam Boca / NCM Insurance Agency Our friend Adam Boca of the NCM Insurance Agency shared this heartbreaking image after a strong storm system swept...

The Shelter Medicine Program at the University of Florida is integrated into the state's disaster response system and is here to support Florida's 155 + shelters before and after the storm.

As the front travels east the pressure begins to drop rapidly and the now low pressure system increases as do the winds and waves making the perfect recipe for storm after storm to come crashing against Vancouver Island's quaint town of Ucluelet.

He was one of the few members who continued to work on Looking Glass properties even after the company closed, doing sound design both for System Shock 2 at Irrational and Thief: Deadly Shadows at Ion Storm.

March was a great month for PlayStation gamers, as well as gamers on other system, but there's always a calm before and after the storm.

As I read reports about the release of more than 11,000 tons of radiation - laced water into the sea from the damaged nuclear plant in Japan, I recalled reporting I did more than a decade ago on the many uses of silt barriers — essentially curtains suspended in water — to hold back everything from oil slicks to the bursts of polluted runoff flowing into coastal waters from city storm drains after heavy storms (the water can be pumped and treated once the system is not overloaded).

On the question of hurricanes, the theoretical arguments that more energy and water vapor in the atmosphere should lead to stronger storms are really sound (after all, storm intensity increases going from pole toward equator), but determining precisely how human influences (so including GHGs [greenhouse gases] and aerosols, and land cover change) should be changing hurricanes in a system where there are natural external (solar and volcanoes) and internal (e.g., ENSO, NAO [El Nino - Southern Oscillation, North Atlantic Oscillation]-RRB- influences is quite problematic — our climate models are just not good enough yet to carry out the types of sensitivity tests that have been done using limited area hurricane models run for relatively short times.

Assuming a good bit of this was added after the natural warming cycle was started we are probably looking at closer to 1200 ppm over the next century or two before C02 levels begin to decrease again as this natural green house locks up carbon primarily in phytoplankton blooms caused by fertilization from the new large desert regions near the equator and excessive erosion from very intense storm systems the develop in such a hot house climate.

Utilities nationwide are investing in modern grid infrastructure — including smart meters, local solar installations and better monitoring systems — to keep Americans from losing power after a storm.

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Publications by James E. Hansen pubs.giss.nasa.gov, his latest book is: Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity. Amazon.com Runaway climate change Runaway climate change describes a scenario in which the climate system passes a threshold or tipping point, after which internal positive feedback effects cause the climate to continue changing, even...