Sentences with phrase «use after a hurricane»

Your homeowner's insurance policy has additional living expenses coverage which would be available to use after a hurricane loss, but there is no additional living expenses coverage on a flood policy.

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Naled is commonly used across the US, particularly after mosquito - breeding disasters like hurricanes or floods, and the chemical is approved by the Environmental Protection Agency for use in insecticide.

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 insurance industry now uses sophisticated catastrophe modeling for risk assessment when it comes to flooding, hurricanes, and other natural disasters, but that wasn't the case until 11 insurance companies went bankrupt after Hurricane Andrew in 1992.

After Hurricane Maria savaged Puerto Rico, a man named Jesse Levin used what he'd learned as an entrepreneur and applied it to disaster relief.

Using Epcot as a staging area to fill up their fuel before they head out, thousands of power trucks and tree trimming trucks prepared for their journey to restore power to the more than 6 million customer in Florida who lost it after Hurricane Irma.

The Mobile Medical Unit was used in the response to Hurricane Harvey, so a HHI team drove to Florida to be in place after Irma finished its punishing course over the state.

After Puerto Rico is devastated by Hurricane Maria, Zuckberg broadcasts a video using Facebook's Spaces VR app in which cartoon versions of himself and a colleague teleport to witness the damage.

A Hollywood nursing home where 12 elderly patients died of overheating after Hurricane Irma knocked out its air conditioning made matters worse by using portable units that were not properly ventilated and increased temperatures in most of the facility, an engineer testified in a deposition.

The Cajun Navy, a group of rescue volunteers begun after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, uses Zello regularly.

The C - 130 Hercules that nosedived onto a Georgia highway, killing all nine Puerto Rican airmen aboard, was an aging aircraft used by the Puerto Rico National Guard after last year's hurricanes and was on its final flight Wednesday en route to retirement in Arizona.

For example, after Hurricane Harvey, the auto inventory to sales completely normalized, as the demand for new cars in affected areas sopped up all the excess used car supply on the market.

Two weeks after Hurricane Harvey caused devastating flooding in Houston, Congress passed an initial $ 15 billion relief bill — a pot of money the Federal Emergency Management Agency can use to help any disaster zones.

The aircraft was over 60 years old and «had been used in the past to rescue U.S. citizens stranded in the British Virgin Islands following Hurricane Irma and ferry supplies to the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria last year.»

Whatever its exact age, the destroyed C - 130 had been used to rescue Americans stranded in the British Virgin Islands after Hurricane Irma hit the Caribbean late last year, the AP reported.

I'll use the space I've been offered to say this: Your aid to Houston after Hurricane Harvey will not be in vain.

«After Hurricane Katrina, the mission sent cloth diapers for use by infants of displayed people along the Gulf Coast.»

They were used to survey the Fukushima nuclear power station site and to search for survivors after Hurricane Katrina.

In that case, how come that huge amount of military personal and powerful equipment isn't used for the sake of public benefit like disaster control (helping clean up after the hurricane etc.) or maintaining public order, considering that almost all military personel have VASTLY better training compared to the average policeman.

After President Donald Trump used Twitter on Saturday to attack the mayor of San Juan for criticizing his administration's handling of the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, a senior Puerto Rican official defended the federal government's response to the disaster.

Mulgrew praised Federation of Nurses / UFT members who used their vacation time to save lives after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico.

«We can now use our data from Manhattan after Super Storm Sandy to make predictions about how diversity may change in Houston after Hurricane Harvey and in the urban centers of Puerto Rico after Hurricanes Irma and Maria, among other areas affected by these storms.»

By comparing Twitter use in 50 cities in the United States, the researchers found that the closer the city was to the hurricane's path, the more storm - related tweets were sent in the period immediately before, during and after Sandy's big day, the researchers report March 11 in Science Advances.

UF researchers used erosion data and post-storm nourishment strategies after hurricanes Ivan and Dennis and Tropical Storm Katrina struck the island, which is part of Eglin Air Force Base in Fort Walton Beach.

The authors of this article studied human mobility using movement data from individuals active on Twitter in New York City for 12 days during and after Hurricane Sandy in 2012.

Scientists are using the resulting mosaic pictures to study patterns such as how Manhattan sank into semi-darkness after Hurricane Sandy and how geography forces people into settlement patterns, such as along the densely populated Nile in Egypt.

Among the ideas they discussed: naming diseases after Greek gods, using a system similar to the one used to name comets or alternating male and female names as is done with hurricanes.»

For the shelves we used inexpensive brackets and wood for shelves that we found after Hurricane Sandy.

Gloria E. Colon, and from left, Glenda Ruiz, her mother, Rosa Rodriguez, back, and Ruiz's two sons, Josh Rivera, 6, and Abdiel Rivera, 8, are using a classroom at Judith Avivas Elementary School in Utuado, Puerto Rico, as their temporary home after Hurricane Maria destroyed their house last month.

Still in the depths of the devastating aftermath of Hurricane Maria, GLOBE students dove in and researched the question of «Improving the Drinking Water after Hurricane Maria Using Natural Resources.»

An educator shares how his student Chels used Facing History to find her voice through hip hop music after Hurricane Katrina.

In Klein's book The Shock Doctrine, she explains how immediately after Hurricane Katrina, Friedman used the decimation of New Orleans» infrastructure to push for charter schools, a market - based policy preference of Friedman acolytes.

«Caroline returned to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina to use her business skills to help rebuild the state's failing educational system,» said Freeman School Dean Ira Solomon.

Lancaster, Typhoon, Hurricane — Jonathan Wood looks at the first models produced by Armstrong Siddeley after the Second World War / Alfa Romeo 6C — Douglas Blain encounters a recreation of one of a handful of short chassis 6C 256 Alfa Romeos prepared for racing just before World War Two / Porsche's Magnificent Mixtes — At a time when early automotive technology was in a state of flux, Ferdinand Porsche dared to use electricity to transmit power from engine to wheels.

Libraries also play a key role in the wake of natural disasters; after Hurricane Sandy, for example, people left homeless by the storm were filling libraries in New York and New Jersey, using library computers to complete federal forms and communicating with loved ones using the library's internet connections.

While legislation passed by Congress after Hurricane Katrina will now allow the use of federal funds to help states create pet - friendly emergency shelter facilities, it's still a good idea to plan ahead and find a friend, boarding kennel, veterinary facility, or hotel or motel that could take your pet in the event of an emergency.

Large dogs, you'll recall, are numerous in the parish southeast of New Orleans because many residents used them to guard their properties while rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina.

Donations we received will be used to meet the immediate needs of homeless households impacted by Hurricane Harvey, whether it is one - time financial assistance, furniture for new units, we are here to ensure that the most vulnerable among us get back on their feet after this catastrophic event.

UPDATE (09/25/17): The remaining members of the ARL Mobile Rescue team are now back in Des Moines after a 9 day deployment to help at the ASPCA's emergency animal shelter used to evacuate animals from shelters in Florida prior to the hurricane making landfall.

For example, she volunteered after Hurricane Katrina (and during Rita) and used essences there.

Using aerial news footage of the devastation in Texas and Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina (2005), as well as the floods in Missouri and Mississippi (2008), this latest animation by Wise presents a complex interaction of urban forms, nature, and landscape.

Just after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city of New Orleans in 2005, photographer Richard Misrach used a 4 - megapixel pocket camera to capture messages left behind by evacuees.

They won a grant from the Lemelson - MIT Program to develop a lightweight, portable disaster relief shelter, designed to be complete with a water purification system and a renewable energy source to power an LED light, which could be used after disasters such as hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, or tornadoes to house people who have been displaced.

After Hurricane Katrina hit, Google Earth was used to help rescue workers to save more than 4,000 people.

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.

Yes, it costs more to rebuild after a hurricane than it used to, but this is because more people live in locales that are vulnerable to hurricanes — and their homes are bigger and fancier than they used to be.

After testing the research model, the Hurricane Center is now moving forward with an operational version of the upgraded HWRF model that will be used during the 2012 hurricanHurricane Center is now moving forward with an operational version of the upgraded HWRF model that will be used during the 2012 hurricanehurricane season.

Even after I added the 2005 data on category - 5 hurricanes, which they did not use because the season wasn't over yet, the quick regressions I ran didn't show any statistically significant increase in category - 5 storms.

Immediately after the hurricane, maximum values for gross primary productivity were similar to earlier measurements and trees at the study sites produced new fine roots using stored carbon up to 11 years old.

Founded shortly after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the Wolfe Law Group — with offices in New Orleans and Seattle — is using technology to continue to function during Hurricane Gustav.