Hurricane Pork
The News Review:
- Hurricane Pork
- Tornado causes Galveston damage before storms subside
- Hurricane center closely watching tropical wave
- Danny weakens as Jimena becomes hurricane
- Wildfire wreaks havoc…Hurricane watch posted…Death count at eight
- Hurricane Katrina’s lost pets find new homes
- My Turn: Hurricane relief is about people
Hurricane Pork
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Tornado causes Galveston damage before storms subside
Houston Chronicle
In the tropics the National Weather Service expects the latest cluster of storms in the Atlantic cean to form into a named system this week. Computer models disagree on whether the system which currently is about 700 miles east of the Windward Islands will steam into the Caribbean Sea or veer toward the North Atlantic like other tropical systems this year. Meanwhile in the eastern Pacific cean Hurricane Jimena is expected to strike the southern Baja Peninsula as a major storm late Tuesday.
Hurricane center closely watching tropical wave
MiamiHerald.com
comp –> A large well-organized tropical wave that appears likely to become the season’s fifth tropical storm Erika continued to move toward the Windward Islands on Monday. Forecasters put the odds of the wave strengthening into a tropical depression in the next few days at better than 50 percent. “Right now it looks really impressive on satellite images” said Dennis Feltgen a spokesman for the National Hurricane Center in Miami. “We’ve had some flare ups of showers and thunderstorms today. ” At 2 p. the center was tracking the storm moving west-northwest at 15 mph about 500 miles east of the chain of Caribbean islands that make up the Windwards.
Danny weakens as Jimena becomes hurricane
Fort Worth Star Telegram
walks along a Nashaquitsa Pond's dock on Martha's Vineyard in Chilmark Saturday Aug. 29 2009 as rains associated with remnants of Hurricane Danny continue to drop rain on the island. walks along a Nashaquitsa Pond’s dock on Martha’s Vineyard in Chilmark Saturday Aug. 29 2009 as rains associated with remnants of Hurricane Danny continue to drop rain on the island.
Wildfire wreaks havoc…Hurricane watch posted…Death count at eight
9&10 News
Deputy Fire Chief Mike Bryant said the two men were near Mt. Gleason in the Angeles National Forest this afternoon when their vehicle crashed. MIAMI (AP) A hurricane watch has been issued for the Baja California peninsula for Jimena (hee-MAY’-nuh) a dangerous Category 4 storm off Mexico’s Pacific coast. Mexico put out the watch tonight. Residents have stocked up on food and authorities set up shelters anticipating landfall in the coming days. (AP) Police say an eighth person has died in the attack on a Georgia mobile home.
Hurricane Katrina’s lost pets find new homes
MiamiHerald.com
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My Turn: Hurricane relief is about people
neonta Daily Star
“So Garry what was it like in Texas?”This was the greeting I heard meeting friends and family after returning from a three-week trip last September. I wasn’t on vacation but deployed with the American Red Cross to help those affected by hurricanes. As the current hurricane season nears its peak I would like to share this memoir from 2008. If you remember Hurricanes Gustav Hanna and Ike there was a fairly long lead time while they milled about in the Caribbean Sea the Atlantic cean and the Gulf of Mexico before actually touching land. No one knew exactly where or when or if they would come ashore. The Federal Emergency Management Association and the Red Cross did not want to get caught unprepared so eight volunteers from the Red Cross Southern Tier Chapter four from tsego County were among several hundred “prepositioned” sent first to Mississippi then to Florida when Hanna was a threat and ultimately to Texas to help Ike’s evacuees. My team finally set up in College Station home of Texas A&M University to staff a small shelter in a church youth center.