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Watch: Weather Channel’s Jim Cantore gets hit by tree branch covering Hurricane Ian

Wednesday, September 28th, 2022 6:03pm MDT

Oh, TWC, the invented drama and stupidity you put on display is why I refuse to watch you. Today, their top guy, Jim Cantore, got hit with a tree branch while stupidly standing out in the open reporting on Hurricane Ian. I certainly never wish harm on anyone but if you do stupid stuff like […]

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Hurricane Maria stripped Puerto Rico’s forests bare, work begins to replenish them

Wednesday, February 28th, 2018 10:17am MDT

When Hurricane Maria tore through Puerto Rico last September, the physical destruction was not limited to houses, buildings, the electricity grid and other infrastructure. The storm also toppled or stripped bare an estimated 480 million trees, or a third of all the forests.

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Hurricane Maria unleashes fury on Puerto Rico: ‘The winds are like out of a horror movie’

Wednesday, September 20th, 2017 11:19am MDT

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A ferocious Hurricane Maria slammed Puerto Rico just before dawn Wednesday as some 3.5 million people girded for a day of vicious winds and drenching rain expected to devastate the American territory. The eye of the storm made official landfall at 6:15 a.m. near Yabucoa, about 45 miles southeast of […]

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Puerto Rico Braces for Impact of Hurricane Maria

Tuesday, September 19th, 2017 3:32pm MDT

Puerto Rico was spared the worst of Hurricane Irma, which grazed the island and caused huge power blackouts but did not ravage the U.S. territory in the same way it did other islands. That will not be the case with Hurricane Maria, according to forecasters. The category 5 storm is barrelling towards Puerto Rico with […]

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Irma weakens but 6.2 million without power in Florida

Monday, September 11th, 2017 9:59am MDT

Monster storm Irma, which ripped a deadly path through the Caribbean, started to weaken Monday though it was still whipping parts of Florida with fearsome winds and rain, leaving 6.2 million people without power. The death toll jumped to at least 40 as Cuba said 10 people had been killed there over the weekend as […]

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Irma’s deadly passage batters Caribbean

Thursday, September 7th, 2017 5:06pm MDT

Hurricane Irma on Thursday pounded the Caribbean on its likely collision course for the United States, shredding homes, prompting thousands to flee and killing at least six people. Up to a million people were ordered to leave coastal areas of Florida and neighbouring Georgia — the biggest mass evacuation in the US in a dozen […]

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Irma is now the strongest Atlantic Ocean hurricane ever

Wednesday, September 6th, 2017 7:47am MDT

Hurricane Irma roared into the Caribbean with record-setting force early Wednesday, shaking people in their homes on the islands of Antigua and Barbuda on a path toward Puerto Rico and possibly Florida by the weekend. Irma, which was the strongest Atlantic hurricane ever recorded north of the Caribbean and east of the Gulf of Mexico, […]

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Caribbean girds for Hurricane Irma threat

Tuesday, September 5th, 2017 5:10am MDT

Irma, a still strengthening and dangerous Category Four hurricane, churned toward the Leeward Islands early Tuesday, sparking alarm and alerts from the Caribbean to Florida, which declared an emergency. The National Hurricane Center said at 0300 GMT that the storm was packing top sustained winds of 140 mph (220 km/h). “Additional strengthening is forecast during […]

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Hillary Clinton taking advantage of Hurricane Matthew

Thursday, October 13th, 2016 4:49am MDT

In the wake of Hurricane Matthew, Hillary Clinton has called on Al Gore to help boost her candidacy among voters concerned about climate change. If Tuesday’s Clinton-Gore climate change rally in Miami is any indication, we are in for a wild ride in the coming weeks. Their speeches were riddled with science misrepresentations and outright […]

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Hurricane Nicole bears down on Bermuda

Thursday, October 13th, 2016 3:55am MDT

Mexico City (dpa) – Hurricane Nicole is expected to arrive in the British overseas territory of Bermuda on Thursday, with officials telling locals to be wary of the category 4 storm. Late on Wednesday evening the centre of the hurricane was situated around 290 kilometres south-south west of Bermuda with wind speeds of up to […]

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