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... that the world – especially developing countries – is increasingly ill-prepared: This year’s monsoon season in India caused nearly $1.5 billion in property damage. Tropical storm Daniel in September caused deadly floods in Libya. Last month, Hurricane Otis pummeled Mexico, raising fears that the government would spend more money ...
... from the water and saw families coming and going, looking for their loved ones. Many people rode out on boats what had started as a tropical storm and in just 12 hours powered up into a catastrophic Category 5 hurricane. Leaning against a small wooden fishing boat like her own ...
... who was attending the same conference but staying in a different hotel. On Tuesday, Otis took many by surprise when it rapidly strengthened from a tropical storm to a powerful Category 5 as it tore along the coast. "It's one thing to have a Category 5 hurricane make landfall ...
... trucks from the national electric company moved through the Guerrero state capital Chilpancingo before dawn Wednesday toward Acapulco. Otis had strengthened rapidly, going from a tropical storm to a Category 5 hurricane in 12 hours Tuesday. Residents of Guerrero's coast scrambled to prepare, but the storm's sudden intensity ...
... overseas departments.The hurricane center said in a report that “heavy rainfall and flooding (are) likely over much of the Lesser Antilles.” Two weeks after Tropical Storm Phillippe rolled through Antigua and Barbuda dumping six to eight inches of rain and plunging both islands into darkness, residents of the islands ...
... Cabos at the southern tip of Mexico's Baja California Peninsula in the Pacific. In the Atlantic, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said another tropical storm, Tammy, had grown into a hurricane, with winds of 75 mph (120 kph). Hurricane watches were in effect for the islands of Guadeloupe ...
... of Puerto Vallarta and the major port of Manzanillo. Local authorities canceled classes in communities around the coast. The expected impact came one day after Tropical Storm Max hit the southern Pacific coast, hundreds of miles away, and then dissipated. Rains from Max washed out part of a coastal highway ...
After being downgraded from a tropical storm, Ophelia on Sunday still threatened parts of the Northeast with coastal flooding, life-threatening waves and heavy rain from Washington to New York City, the National Hurricane Center said. As Ophelia weakened, a new tropical storm named Philippe brewed in the Atlantic. Even ...
... Hurricane Center. That’s about 50 miles (80 kilometers) southeast of Eastport, Maine. WATCH: News Wrap: Lee makes landfall in Canada after lashing Northeast The storm was expected to weaken as it moved into New Brunswick and the Gulf of St. Lawrence. In the United States, a tropical storm warning ...
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