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Washington (AFP) - Devastating storms pounded three central US states Thursday night, spawning massive tornadoes and claiming at least three lives, officials said Friday. The powerful storms raked through the adjoining states of Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio. "We have three known fatalities," Sheriff Randall Dodds, of Logan County in west-central Ohio, told a CBS affiliate. "The devastation was such that we have to get heavy equipment into these areas to be able to move this material where homes have collapsed, to see if there's anybody injured," he said, adding, "it's going to take a long time....
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Houston (AFP) - Seven wildfires were raging in Texas, including one of the largest in recent state history, authorities said Wednesday, as properties were destroyed and multiple evacuation orders were issued, particularly in the north. The Smokehouse Creek Fire in Texas' panhandle, a flat northern area known for its prairies and smattering of small towns, was listed as 3 percent contained by the Texas A&M Forest Service. The enormous blaze has already scorched some 850,000 acres (344,000 hectares) -- an area approximately half the size of the state of Delaware. Following harsh winds and unseas...
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Dana Point (United States) (AFP) - Multi-million-dollar homes crouched on a California clifftop got a little bit closer to the edge when a landslide brought tons of rock and soil crashing into the sea. Heart-stopping pictures show three mega-mansions in the city of Dana Point apparently now perilously close to the Pacific Ocean following the rockfall. But astonishingly, the properties are still livable, with engineers assuring owners that their homes are in no danger of sliding into the sea. Lewis Bruggeman, who owns one of the homes in the tony enclave south of Los Angeles, told a local broad...
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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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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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Majuro (Marshall Islands) (AFP) - A clean-up operation was underway Thursday after giant waves flooded a key US military base on the Marshall Islands in the heart of the South Pacific. Huge breakers pummelled the US garrison at Kwajalein Atoll last weekend on Roi-Namur island, where some of America's most sophisticated space and missile tracking equipment is housed. Video footage from inside the garrison showed surging water from the waves knocked over bystanders, smashed open glass doors and shattered windows. Around 80 of the 120 personnel had to be evacuated, the US military said, and a 60-...
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Washington (AFP) - Unrelenting storms have pummelled the United States over the past week, leading to at least 50 weather-related deaths, officials and US media reported Friday, as large swathes of the country brace for new winter wallops. Frigid temperatures, snow gales and thick ice have caused fatal accidents on treacherous roadways, snarled air travel, closed schools and cut power to thousands, with millions of Americans under fresh weather warnings. In Tennessee, 14 weather-related fatalities were confirmed by the southeastern state's health department, while five women who were returning...
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New York (AFP) - New York on Tuesday finally ended a record streak of more than 700 days without measurable snowfall, with a thin layer of white powder covering Central Park and other parts of America's most populous city. "It's been 701 days since Central Park last recorded an inch of snow on a calendar day," the National Weather Service announced on X, formerly Twitter. Since midnight, an inch (2.5 centimeters) had fallen at an official measuring point in Central Park, the NWS said, adding that a total of 1.4 inches of accumulation were logged since the storm began on Monday. "The streak ha...
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Des Moines (United States) (AFP) - Plunging temperatures, whipping wind and buckets of snow froze out the final stretch of campaigning in the US state of Iowa Saturday, with overwhelming favorite Donald Trump canceling in-person appearances just two days before voters make their preferences known. Forecasters warned of "fairly intense blizzard conditions" throughout much of the Midwestern state, as the National Weather Service (NWS) said wind gusts of 50 to 55 miles (80 to 89 kilometers) per hour, paired with blowing snow, could reduce visibility down to a quarter of a mile. Monday's caucuses...
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Des Moines (United States) (AFP) - A powerful storm that could strengthen into a so-called bomb cyclone pummeled north and central parts of the United States on Friday, with heavy snow derailing campaigning for the important Iowa caucus. Several inches of snow were set to accumulate in the midwest US state, where Republican presidential candidates are seeking support in Monday's caucus vote -- the first of the 2024 White House race. "Travel may become impossible in rural areas by this afternoon. Hazardous travel to continue through Saturday across much of central Iowa," the National Weather Se...
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