Sentences with phrase «threat of hurricane»

This makes me want to drive to Wilmington (despite the threat of Hurricane Earl looming) and find a copy of Bridget Jones diary.

Cancel for any reason provides the traveler the most options for cancelling a trip due to threat of a hurricane.

Consider how the weather and climate is in your home town - is there the threat of a hurricane?

Under the threat of a hurricane, opportunistic criminals infiltrate a US Mint facility to steal $ 600 million for the ultimate heist.

When to go: Head here towards the end of the year anytime from October through early December for good weather without the threat of a hurricane.

As the threat of Hurricane Irma draws closer to home, volunteers from across the Hudson Valley are preparing to help out those in need.

For families living in disaster - prone areas, where the threat of a hurricane, tornado, flood, earthquake, or wildfire is constant, especially during some times of the year, the realization is that it could happen to them next.

She used her new favorite word («no») loudly and with the threat of a hurricane force tantrum at the mere mention that pottying just might be something she might like to dabble in before college.

«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.

The market can also price in a premium for supply disruptions due to threats of hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico.

That's because a current of cold ocean water moves from north to south along the West Coast, cooling the coastal Pacific and removing the threat of hurricanes, which form only when low pressure systems siphon off the energy from warm ocean water.

This famously laid - back island is a great place to de-stress, especially in January when the weather is warm and breezy, and there's no threat of hurricanes.

The most popular time to visit is January - March, when warm temperatures and sunny days offset chilly winter days in much of North America, although late October - December can be great too when the threat of hurricanes have passed and the crowds are yet to arrive.

There is one big disadvantage of Riviera Maya's coastal location — the threat of hurricanes.

There are much, much better ways to deal with the threat of hurricanes than with energy policies (e.g., Pielke and Pielke 1997).

The shingled roofs, which have a pitch of about 35 degrees, are red, though over the years some homeowners have replaced the original shingles with sheets of corrugated iron for reasons of upkeep and the threat of hurricanes.

Not only do we have the threat of hurricanes swooping in with tons of water, there is also the factor that parts of our state are wetlands and -LSB-...]

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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.

«Obviously, Hurricane Irma continues to be a threat that is going to devastate the United States,» Brock Long, the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said on Friday.

From wildfires and horrific mass shootings to threats of nuclear war and community - flattening hurricanes, there is no denying that some pretty terrible things happened in 2017.

The large city, which is always under threat of a tropical storm or hurricane in the summer and fall, but also has a good deal of theft, makes rates here a bit more expensive.

Smith points to the threats the pipeline poses to British Columbia's tourism industry, rising floodwaters in Bangladesh and the Maldives, drought in sub-Saharan Africa and Mexico, the homes that will be lost in future forest fires, respiratory health impacts in communities from Vancouver to Kamloops and Quesnel, and future hurricanes in the Caribbean and Gulf states as climate impacts that are left out of the narrative about the project.

Now some of these same islands in the Caribbean — including St. Croix, St. Thomas, and the US territory Puerto Rico — are enduring a new, stomach - churning threat: Hurricane Maria.

Even without the threat of climate change, we've long known that hurricanes are dangerous.

But, with Hurricane Harvey devastating Houston just last month, many of us seasoned Floridians took Hurricane Irma's threat a little more seriously than we normally would.

With your help, we can support families fleeing Eastern Ghouta, feed children in South Sudan under threat of famine, reach survivors after natural disasters like Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico — and so much more.

We don't need the threat of climate change to know that hurricanes are a dangerous threat.

The National Weather Service warned last week that winds could get as high as 80 mph — in the range of a Category 1 hurricane — which was the first time the agency has activated the purple level threat warning in the state.

Hurricane season runs until the end of November, should any major storm threats arise over the coming months which lead to the suspension of drilling expect to see the price of natural gas to move up.

With the threat of a storm as Hurricane Earl made its way up the East Coast, it was a good day to stay inside and make some homemade soup for my friends with cancer, «B» and «J.» My friend «B» had suggested some lentil soup, which seems to be her favorite kind, so I set...

Weevils have attacked the plants in the past, damaging the local crop, but the biggest threats to supply are the lack of large - scale producers (most locals just grow a few plants for their own use) and hurricanes, which dump heavy rains and pack a punch with fierce winds that destroy the fragile plants.

The «hurricane» of impeachment threat against some state governors appears to have had a stop in Nasarawa state as members of the state's legislature have begun...

The City of New Rochelle is in the center of the «extreme threat» zone for Hurricane Irene according to the most recent data from the National Hurricane Center.

The study included a wide variety of severe weather events, Konisky said, and its findings may not entirely apply to headline - grabbing events like the Texas flooding caused by Hurricane Harvey or the threat to Florida by Hurricane Irma.

In the short term, the biggest threat to Florida's long - term existence in the context of sea - level rise is also one of its most familiar threats: a big hurricane like 1992's Andrew or 2012's Superstorm Sandy.

So, starting on February 28th, I will be debuting as the host of a new series on the Weather Channel called Hacking the Planet, and this is a series in which, each week, the format is I take a look at some kind of big natural threat, things like hurricanes and tornadoes and earthquakes and the like, and I explore what we understand, the science of how these things work and where they came from and how they stop and then we figure out, well, how can we use this knowledge to our advantage.

This study provides good evidence for predicting that the threat posed to the globally important biodiversity of the Jamaican Blue Mountains will only increase, especially after the next hurricane seriously disrupts the canopy of the natural forest.

In their paper, called «Adaptation Optimization of Residential Buildings under Hurricane Threat Considering Climate Change in a Lifecycle Context,» Frangopol and Dong present a systematic framework for the optimal adaptation of residential buildings at a large scale under various scenarios of impending climate change during a long - term interval.

Threats — ranging from the destruction of coral reefs to more extreme weather events like hurricanes, droughts and floods — are becoming more likely at the temperature change already underway: as little as 1.8 degree Fahrenheit (1 degree Celsius) of warming in global average temperatures.

So, for example, officials might over-react to a hurricane in light of Katrina, even if the real threat to public safety may lie elsewhere.

Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama and Texas all have coastlines in the Gulf of Mexico, where hurricanes are a recurring threat to residents and property.

Although hurricanes get most of the media attention, floods pose the greatest threat to lives and property in the United States.

President Donald Trump said Monday that he would seek billions of dollars in assistance to rebuild Texas and Louisiana from the flooding caused by Hurricane Harvey but renewed his threat to shut down the government if Congress won't agree to begin building a wall on the Mexican border.

Since we're in the middle of hurricane season, we wanted to make sure you know what to do for your pets during a hurricane threat.

From hurricanes and fires, to gas leaks and terrorist threats, there are hundreds of reasons why you and your pets may need to evacuate your home.

If you're planning to visit Baja California Peninsula, note that Mexico's hurricane season officially starts in June, which can bring heavy showers and the threat of storms to both the Pacific and Gulf coasts.

Aruba has one distinct weather advantage over some of its Caribbean neighbors: it lies nicely outside the hurricane belt, so the threat of storms is lower during the summer and fall months.

Alerts, in contrast, involve threats of limited duration such as a hurricane or a public demonstration.

Hurricane Maria may still be hundreds of miles away from the Florida coast, but that doesn't mean meteorologists are taking the threat of this massive... Read More

After the devastation of Hurricane Harvey the new Hurricane Irma is the next large threat.