COCODRIE, La. - As Tropical Storm Nicholas crawled through Louisiana this week, dumping nearly 10 inches of rain, Hank Deogracis and Elizabeth Schrader were living outside in a small tent. Left homeless by Hurricane Ida, the couple is part of an emerging housing crisis along the Louisiana Gulf Coast — one made ...
Tropical Storm Nicholas is headed for landfall in Texas tonight, with up to 16 inches of rain. It could become a minimal hurricane, and then move slowly across Texas and Southwestern Louisiana through midweek. That's likely to trigger flash flooding in a region west of where Hurricane Ida struck ...
... disastrous outcomes in parched California. Last year's record amount of land burned included huge Northern California fires that were ignited when remnants of a tropical storm unleashed thousands of bolts. A cluster of 2020 lightning fires known as the August Complex burned more than 1,615 square miles (4 ...
... 15,000 firefighters are already battling 14 major fires across the state.In the Southeastern U.S., the problem is too much water. Remains of Tropical Storm Mindy poured rain over Georgia and South Carolina today in areas already soaked by previous storms. In the Pacific, Hurricane Olaf headed toward ...
In our news wrap Wednesday, a long-awaited trial opened in Paris on the 2015 Islamic State terrorist attack that killed 130 people. The World Health Organization asked that rich nations not give COVID-19 booster shots until next year. A new tropical storm, Mindy, has formed in the Northeastern ...
... Jersey's Raritan River, is almost always hard-hit by major storms. It was the scene of catastrophic flooding in 1998 as the remnants of Tropical Storm Floyd swept over New Jersey. It also sustained serious flooding during the aftermath of Hurricane Irene in 2011 and Superstorm Sandy in 2012 ...
... anew on the threat posed by climate change and the prospect that disaster zone visits may become a more regular feature of the presidency. The storm has killed at least 14 people in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, and at least 48 in the Northeastern U.S. The president has pointed ...
... anew on the threat posed by climate change and the prospect that disaster zone visits may become a more regular feature of the presidency. The storm has killed at 13 people in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, and at least 48 in the Northeastern U.S. The president has pointed to ...
... a pair of hurricanes last year had blown out the windows. Scientists say climate change increases the frequency of extreme weather events — such as large tropical storms, and the droughts and heatwaves that create conditions for vast wildfires. U.S. weather officials recently reported that July 2021 was the hottest ...
... Nature has its own way of handling it. Roby Chavez: New York Governor Kathy Hochul spoke about the devastating rainfall, which surpassed records set during Tropical Storm Henri just 11 days ago. Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY): Because of climate change, unfortunately, this is something we are going to have ...
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