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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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Washington (AFP) - US regulators on Tuesday called on Amazon to improve its safety protocols after six people were killed in December when a tornado hit one of the company's warehouses in the state of Illinois. An investigation into the deaths found that workers did not know where to go for shelter during the storm, and that a megaphone meant to communicate with employees was "locked in a cage and not accessible," the Labor Department's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) said in a letter to the e-commerce giant. "These tragic deaths have sparked discussions nationwide on the ...
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Ronan Keating admits it's "heartbreaking" that his late mum never got to meet her grandchildren. The Boyzone frontman has opened up about the devastating loss of Marie Keating, who died from cancer aged 51 in February 1998, when the 44-year-old singer was just 20. The Irish heartthrob - who has Jack, 22, Missy, 20, and Ali, 16, with first wife Yvonne Connolly, and Cooper, four, and 22-month-old Coco with model wife Storm - knows his parent would have been proud of his family, but admitted he misses not having her around to hug him and reassure him "everything will be alright". In an emotional ...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Extreme weather in Alaska that has brought record high temperatures and torrential downpours has left authorities in the far northern US state warning of "Icemageddon". Huge sheets of ice are blocking roads and choking traffic in Fairbanks, Alaska's second largest city, reported the state's transportation department, which has coined the neologism -- a play on "Armageddon" -- to describe the chilly impasse. "We're experiencing an unprecedented series of winter storms," the department tweeted. Scientists say the unchecked burning of fossil fuels and other human activity is c...
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Dresden (United States) (AFP) - Jerry Rachels was "drop-jawed" at the destructive power of a tornado that barreled through Dresden, Tennessee and reduced his hardware store to a concrete slab, but he expressed equal amazement at the pace of cleanup following the powerful storm. "It's devastated the town" in the rural northeast pocket of Tennessee, the 68-year-old said. And while there have been no known Dresden deaths, compared with dozens across the border in Kentucky, the twister has turned the community upside down. Dresden has dodged a storm bullet for decades: famed "Tornado Alley" is mul...
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Fulgham (United States) (AFP) - Kentuckian Sam Stone pondered the rickety remnants of his modest rural home Wednesday, and while he expressed gratitude to be alive after a monster tornado, recovery has been a test of self-reliance -- with no official assistance five days on. His roof was torn off, walls blown out, and belongings mostly sucked away by the deadliest storm in Kentucky history, leaving him reeling and unsure of the next steps for him and his teenage son. "I don't have much money, and I don't have any insurance, so I could use some help," Stone told AFP as his Labrador pit bull mix...
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