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Mehrere Tornados haben im Mittleren Westen der USA mehrere Menschen in den Tod gerissen und große Schäden angerichtet. Mindestens vier Menschen starben in Oklahoma, wie der Gouverneur des Bundesstaats, Kevin Stitt, mitteilte. Örtliche Medien hatten zuvor bereits unter Berufung auf den zuständigen Rettungsdienst berichtet, dass sich unter den Toten ein vier Monate altes Kind befindet. Nach Angaben des Gouverneurs wurden außerdem mindestens 30 weitere Menschen verletzt. Der Republikaner war in den Ort Sulphur südlich von Oklahoma City gereist, wo es besonders starke Verwüstungen gab. «Was ich in...
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Mehrere Tornados haben im Mittleren Westen der USA große Schäden angerichtet. Besonders schwer traf es die Stadt Omaha und deren Umgebung im Bundesstaat Nebraska. Dort seien Hunderte Häuser beschädigt worden, berichteten örtliche Medien unter Berufung auf die Polizei. Auf Fotos und Videos waren Gebäude zu sehen, von denen nur ein Trümmerberg übrig blieb. Es gibt auch Berichte über einige Verletzte, Todesopfer wurden aber bislang nicht gemeldet. Zudem fiel in tausenden Haushalten der Strom aus. «Wir hatten großes Glück, dass es nur sehr wenige Verletzte gab», sagte Omahas Polizeichef Todd Schma...
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Der Klimawandel hinterlässt Spuren in der Bilanz der Versicherungen. «Insbesondere das Hagelrisiko nimmt zu, vor allem in Deutschland, Italien und Frankreich», berichtete der Schweizer Rückversicherer Swiss Re in Zürich. Die Zahl der Extremwetterereignisse sei 2023 auf Rekordniveau gestiegen. Das Unternehmen registrierte 142 Naturkatastrophen, nach 114 im Jahr davor. Die versicherten Schäden lagen jedoch deutlich tiefer als 2022: Sie beliefen sich 2023 auf 108 Milliarden Dollar (rund 100 Mrd Euro), nach inflationsbereinigten 133 Milliarden Dollar im Jahr davor. 2022 hatte besonders Hurrikan Ia...
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By Hazel Gandhi A video of an intense tornado likely from China is going viral online with a false claim that it is from the Biparjoy cyclone that has impacted Gujarat and parts of Pakistan. BOOM found that the video is a few weeks old and most likely was shot in China's Fuxin City, located in the Liaoning province. The IMD has sounded a red alert for Barmer and Jalore after Cyclone Biparjoy crossed the Gujarat coastline and moved towards Rajasthan. It is expected to move towards other parts of Rajasthan as well that will continue seeing heavy rainfall. However, Biparjoy's intensity has weaken...
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Washington (AFP) - A tornado tore through the southern US state of Arkansas and killed three people on Friday, while severe storms further north in Illinois and Indiana left three dead, authorities said. The Arkansas tornado whipped across the state in the afternoon, causing what Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders called "widespread damage." Sanders said two people were killed in the town of Wynne in the eastern part of Arkansas, while an official in Pulaski County, which surrounds the capital Little Rock, confirmed a fatality there. "Significant damage has occurred in Central Arkansas," Sanders ...
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Washington (AFP) - US President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden will visit Rolling Fork, Mississippi on March 31, a week after it was devastated by a tornado that ripped through the southern state, killing at least 25 people. "The President and the First Lady will visit with first responders, state and local officials, and communities impacted by the devastation from recent storms, survey recovery efforts, and reaffirm their commitment to supporting the people of Mississippi as long as it takes," the White House said in a statement. The weather system, mixed with thunderstorms and driving ...
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Rolling Fork (United States) (AFP) - As the thunder roared outside and the lights inside Chuck's Dairy Bar began to blink, owner Tracy Harden realized the tornado conditions forecasted for her small Mississippi town Friday night were far more severe than she realized. "Cooler!" yelled out Harden, and she, her husband and their employees scrambled into a giant gray metal box -- normally used to keep the restaurant's food refrigerated, but which that night saved nine lives in the shattered small town of Rolling Fork. The tornado cut a trail of havoc more than 100 miles (160 kilometers) long acr...
AFP
Rolling Fork (United States) (AFP) - Storm-ravaged Mississippi struggled on Sunday with the aftermath of a huge tornado that tore across the southern US state, killing at least 25 people, with devastated communities bracing for a fresh bout of extreme weather. Search-and-rescue workers surveyed the damage of shredded homes, flattened buildings and smashed cars in Rolling Fork, a small town all but wiped out by nature's wrath. After President Joe Biden freed up disaster aid, the National Weather Service (NWS) warned residents of Mississippi and neighboring Alabama of potential new "supercell th...
AFP
Rolling Fork (United States) (AFP) - A brick house reduced to rubble, its floors strewn with personal effects like a pink backpack and a bottle of shampoo, somehow standing upright. That's just one of many scenes of the utter devastation left by a tornado that ripped through the southern US state of Mississippi Friday night. And shell-shocked residents of the shattered town of Rolling Fork are now grappling with how much their lives changed in the blink of an eye. At least 25 people were killed, 13 of them in this town of 2,000 people. On Sunday morning, under skies that were blue for the time...
AFP
Rolling Fork (United States) (AFP) - At least 25 people were killed by devastating tornadoes that ripped across the southern US state of Mississippi, tearing off roofs, smashing cars and flattening entire neighborhoods, with the region readying for more severe weather Sunday. The powerful weather system, accompanied by thunderstorms and driving rain, cut a path of more than 100 miles (60 kilometers) across the state late Friday, slamming several towns along the way. Mississippi's emergency management agency put the death toll at 25, and said dozens more were injured. Four people reported missi...
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