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A Massachusetts beach community is scrambling after a weekend storm washed away $600,000 (€551,000) in sand that was trucked in to protect homes, roads and other infrastructure. The project, which brought 12,701 metric tonnes of sand into Salisbury over several weeks, was completed just three days before Sunday's storm clobbered southern New England in the US with strong winds, heavy rainfall and coastal flooding. The Salisbury Beach Citizens for Change group, which facilitated the project and helped raise funds, posted on social media about the project's completion last week and then again af...
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Back-to-back storms lashed the US Northeast in January, leaving coastal homes in tatters. Rental properties in Hampton, New Hampshire, owned by Haim Levy were hammered by nearly 60 cm of water, resulting in hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage and causing him to evacuate tenants to safer ground. “I put them in hotels and everything. So it was brutal, for everybody. And at the apartment I have no floors; I have nothing,” says Levy. “It's not fun.” Many scientists who study the intersection of climate change, flooding, winter storms and sea level rise agree the kind of damage Levy experien...
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New York (AFP) - The northeastern United States was engulfed by snow Tuesday as a powerful winter storm battered the region, blanketing New York for the first time in two years and causing flight cancellations and school closures. Airlines cancelled more than 1,220 flights, including 43 percent of flights at New York's domestic LaGuardia airport as well as one in five flights at the city's main air hub JFK, according to aviation tracker Flight Aware. Schools were forced to close in New York city and transport operators scrambled to provide service after authorities called on the public to avoi...
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Brace. That’s the blanket instruction we’re given each time a storm approaches. Brace for train disruption, brace for property damage, brace for unsecured objects taking flight. So people change their travel plans, they move their car into the garage, and they tie down their garden furniture. But how do people brace for something as out of their control as a blackout? How do you brace for darkness? In what’s been a relentless season of storms, we have seen power cuts on a huge scale. Just last month, more than 230,000 households in Ireland suffered outages. Alongside the scale of these power c...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - A powerful storm lashing California on Monday has left at least three people dead and caused devastating mudslides and flooding, after dumping months' worth of rain in a single day. More than ten inches (25 centimeters) of rain was recorded in one part of Los Angeles County in 24 hours of downpour, with no letup forecast in the coming days. Mountainsides collapsed in the tony Hollywood Hills area, burying cars and damaging houses, while in nearby Beverly Glen, a mudslide knocked one home off its foundation. The house's contents -- including a piano -- were swept onto the ro...
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Norway is reeling from its most powerful storm in more than 30 years, which left some residents without power this morning. Hurricane-force winds up to 180 kilometres per hour (kph) hit central parts of the country particularly hard yesterday, leading to flooding and widespread travel disruption. Named Ingunn by Norwegian meteorologists, the storm developed from a very powerful jet stream racing across the Atlantic. This “explosively deepened an area of low pressure” which pounded the Scandinavian country from Wednesday afternoon, the UK Met Office’s Aidan McGivern explained. “Norway is used t...
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Marine archaeologists are in a race against time to uncover the secrets of an ill-fated British ship from the nineteenth century. Almost 10 years ago, the husk of HMS Erebus was discovered on a shallow stretch of seabed in the Canadian Arctic. Two years later in 2016, its sister ship HMS Terror was found 72 kilometres away in deeper waters. So ended a more than 150 year search for the two vessels which set sail in 1845, on a mission led by Sir John Franklin to find the Northwest Passage between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. None of the 129 men on board survived the journey - and details of ...
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Extreme weather events have been causing travel chaos across Europe this winter. Icy conditions mean flights are cancelled or delayed over fears of slipping on runways. Strong winds force rail operators to bring in speed limits or cancel services and can also cause disruption by downing power lines. Heavy rain and flood alerts can also affect transport systems. Here is all the latest weather-related travel disruption in Europe and everything you need to know about travellers’ rights to compensation. Winter storms snarl runways and railways in the UK and IrelandStorm Jocelyn is due to hit the U...
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A nature-loving hiker died during brutal conditions while on a solo hike in America’s White Mountains last week. Christopher Roma, 37, was an expert hiker who ran his own long-distance trail guide business and had walked this familiar route in New Hampshire many times before. But he is one of more than 90 people who lost their lives in the US over the past week as the country has been battered by ferocious winter storms. “Once you get to a certain point, you have to make that choice to continue or turn back,” his mother, Barbara Roma, said. “And he was never really a turning-back kind of kid.”...
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Rain and high wind warnings have been issued across the UK on Monday as Storm Isha continues to hit the country, bringing rain and gusts of up to 160 kilometres per hour. Overnight, the storm left more than 55,000 homes in the UK without power due to strong gusts of wind and rainfall that triggered more than 80 flood warnings. Northern Ireland is the worst affected with more than 45,000 power cuts, followed by the North West of England (8,000 cuts), Wales (3,000 cuts) and Cornwall with a few hundred, according to the BBC. A rare red alert has also been issued in Scotland for strong winds lasti...
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