Dangerous Hurricane Hilary hits Mexico, California with heavy rains

Agence France Presse 08/20/2023

CABO SAN LUCAS, Mexico – Hilary brought heavy rains Saturday to portions of Mexico’s Baja California peninsula and the southwestern United States, as officials warned the powerful hurricane was likely to cause “catastrophic and life-threatening” flooding. The storm had weakened Saturday…

Hurricane Nicole weakens to tropical storm after making landfall in Florida

Reuters 11/10/2022

MIAMI, Nov 10 (Reuters) – Hurricane Nicole weakened into a tropical storm on Thursday shortly after making landfall on Florida’s east coast, barreling ashore with a brew of heavy downpours and fierce winds. Some 215,000 homes and…

Central America braces as Hurricane Eta builds to Category 4

11/03/2020

Managua, Nicaragua—Eta rapidly intensified to a Category 4 hurricane on Monday, November 2, 2020, as it bore down on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua and Honduras, threatening the Central American countries with catastrophic winds and floods. The…

Florida girds for ‘extremely dangerous’ hurricane

AFP 10/10/2018

Hurricane Michael swelled to an “extremely dangerous” category four storm as it rumbled toward the Gulf Coast of Florida early Wednesday in what forecasters warned was an unprecedented weather event for the area. The National Hurricane Center…

Hurricane Florence stalks US East Coast

AFP 09/11/2018

POWERFUL Hurricane Florence was tracking towards the US East Coast Tuesday, prompting authorities to order upwards of one million people to evacuate the path of the extremely dangerous storm forecasters said could soon intensify. Residents scrambled to…

Irma wrecks Florida Keys

AFP 09/13/2017

Millions of Florida residents were without power and extensive damage was reported in the Florida Keys, but most of the Sunshine State appeared to have dodged forecasts of catastrophic damage from Hurricane Irma. The monster storm roared…

The perfect storm

Atty. Gloria Estenzo Ramos 09/03/2017

Just as Hurricane Harvey paralyzed Houston in the United States, traumatized the people and turned streets and highways into raging rivers and cut off the water system last week, fierce storms, heavy rains and flooding hit India,…

Ban in Haiti gets glimpse of Matthew’s destruction

10/17/2016

PORT-AU-PRINCE — UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visited victims of devastating Hurricane Matthew on Saturday, saying the destruction wrought by the storm was “heartbreaking,” and he renewed a pledge to help the nation cope with a deadly scourge…

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