Sentences with phrase «time of hurricane»

The most active time of hurricane season is here and many travelers are asking which travel insurance policy has the best coverage.

And that's just one of the many tidbits from a NYC DOT report released last November (right around the time of Hurricane Sandy, which is probably why no one noticed at the time); read the whole report here:

The PDI is the cubed wind speed, integrated over surface area and life - time of a hurricane.

The terms of this offer are identical to those at the time of Hurricane Harvey.

Business owners will also receive a credit if they paid their employees money during the time of the hurricane.

It's not an uncommon occurrence, so I rummaged through an old notebook from the time of Hurricane Sandy and discovered a partially completed post...

At the time of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, New Orleans, like many large cities in the U.S., had been mired for years in a school system broken by financial woes, inner - city crime, student discipline problems and low graduation rates.

Ava DuVernay, the director behind the Oscar - nominated Martin Luther King Jr. biopic «Selma,» will write, produce, and direct a feature film set in the time of Hurricane Katrina, the company backing the film said on Monday.

And when I pointed out that such a statement is incredibly offensive to many people, whose lives have been plagued by tragedy and unforeseen events (this was around the time of the hurricane Katrina disaster), he not only refused to qualify his statement, he stated that he didn't care that he'd personally insulted me in his generalization.

This collaboration helped impact the lives of two families who were uninsured homeowners at the time of Hurricane Harvey.

If size and life - time of hurricanes increase as well with increasing mean wind speed, then the PDI will increase more than 73 % for a 20 % increase in wind speed.

Not exact matches

In the process, social media turned into a real - time record of small business survival tactics during Hurricane Sandy.

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.

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.

Conrad dedicated nearly six years to building Wikinvest, with projects including a portfolio tracker synchronized with users» brokerages; an interactive, freely embeddable stock chart; and Hurricane, a tool enabling real - time extraction of structured data, like earnings results culled from press releases.

«We expect investors will ignore the EPS slowdown given one - time hurricane effects and the focus on benefits from corporate tax reform,» a group of the firm's strategists led by David Kostin wrote in a client report, noting that optimism around tax measures was crucial in the S&P 500's ascent to new records last week.

(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.)

In September 2017, it was designated by the Air National Guard as the hub of operations to the island in the aftermath of hurricanes Irma and Maria, the base announced at the time.

CNBC's Jackie DeAngelis reports time is running out for Florida residents to stock up on supplies as shopping centers prepare to close ahead of the powerful hurricane.

The temptation to put hurricanes out of mind until the next time one threatens us springs from a fundamental misapprehension.

House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady is dealing with the devastation of Hurricane Harvey, he said, but it won't affect the timing on taxes.

Since massive Hurricane Maria struck in September and knocked out the dialysis center on the tiny satellite island of Vieques, more than a dozen patients needing treatment now must fly several times a week to the main island.

Oct 30 (Reuters)- Hurricane Sandy appears to have easily caused more losses than last year's Hurricane Irene, but final totals will be hard to come by for some time because of the scale of the disaster, catastrophe forecasting companies said on Tuesday.

The storm was particularly costly for the agriculture industry: «In a matter of hours, Hurricane Maria wiped out about 80 percent of the crop value in Puerto Rico,» the New York Times reports.

Hurricane Harvey may have wreaked havoc among thousands of Texans, but it has thrown a political lifeline to Donald Trump, handing him a much - needed opportunity to demonstrate he can play president in a time of national emergency.

Sept 27 (Reuters)- DDR Corp -: DDR provides update on impact from hurricane maria.DDR Corp - expect full recovery to span a significant period of time given damage to Puerto Rico's critical infrastructure, other reasons.DDR Corp - plaza Palma Real, company's 448,915 square foot asset located on southeastern portion of island sustained significant damage.

Earlier in the week, Irma sustained 185 mph winds for more than 24 hours, a record length of time for a hurricane in the Atlantic.

The insurer told the market at the time significant weather catastrophes including Californian wildfires and December storms in Australia during the fourth quarter, coupled with some adverse development of Hurricane Maria, added around $ US130 million to the net cost of catastrophes.

Trump has received criticism for the timing of the pardon, which came just as Hurricane Harvey was about to make landfall on Friday night.

Kapnick noted that even individual rain storms can be overwhelming, like storm that drenched Baton Rouge last year with 31.39 inches of rain and three times the volume of water of Hurricane Katrina throughout Louisiana in 2005.

Global oil supply fell in August for the first time in four months, the IEA said, a result of a dip in OPEC's oil production, combined with refinery maintenance and sizable outages from Hurricane Harvey.

Additionally, employees of Bass Pro Shops impacted by hurricane Harvey are eligible for assistance through the Bass Pro Cares Fund, which furnishes financial support for essential living expenses «in times of devastating need.»

At the time of this writing, the path is still uncertain, but a multitude of scenarios have the hurricane slamming directly into South Florida by the weekend.

However, at this point in time it is not certain that all these organizations will spend 100 % of donations received on Hurricane Harvey relief.

Overall, hurricanes this time of year aren't really unusual: We're now right at the climatological peak of the six - month Atlantic hurricane season.

Wolfinger said the decision to close came around the same time as a local state of emergency was declared in Brevard, and that the district continues to work with Emergency Management to monitor the hurricane's path.

There were several possible catalysts suggested for this spike in concerns about a favorable outcome of the debt ceiling negotiation, which has to be concluded ahead of the Treasury's X Date, now expected as early as October 1: some cited Steven Mnuchin's interview on CNBC, in which the Treasury Secretary said that the additional spending needed to help Texas recover from Hurricane Harvey may reduce the amount of time Congress has to increase the federal debt limit; another possibility was month - end liquidity needs and relative positioning across the curve.

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.

Editor: Having spent time in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and traveled around the island, I can understand why the island has suffered terribly in the wake of hurricane Maria.

Cuomo has visited the island four times since the September hurricane, slamming the deficiency of assistance the island has received from the federal government.

Both spent much of their time working with «muck and gut» crews, doing everything from tearing out wet drywall to digging through piles of muddy clothing and other household rubble left in the wake of the hurricanes.

CDP Hurricane Harvey Recovery Fund grants have helped rebuild the capacity of local organizations and empowered them to serve their communities at a time of great need.

Historically, the hurricane season in August / September has shut down the supply of oil offshore, leading to a peak in relative price around this time.

A similar chaotic situation to the nightmare in Florida, when over 6 million residents were simultaneously told to evacuate before Hurricane Irma, would be mitigated if people knew where to go ahead of time.

As President of HAFree, David (while working a full - time job) coordinated with HAFree groups in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria devastated the island.

We are expecting to get the full force of the hurricane in around five hours» time, when we will retreat to a concrete wine cellar under the Great House.

Just about every day I'd hear how the end times are upon us because of a new earthquake or hurricane, or liberals or gays.

As for the hurricanes and earthquakes, the bible warns us of an increase in such natural disasters in the end times.

It was this exact same time of year — within a day or two, I'm sure — that I got my first introduction to Houston's hurricane culture.