Posts Tagged ‘damage’

Tropical storms Irene and Lee have caused tremendous amounts of damage throughout upstate New York, Vermont and other parts of the Northeast — there is no getting around that. Many communities are still in the preliminary stages of recovery; nothing is normal. Just as communities in the eastern part of the state were cleaning up [...]

Hurricane Irene may heap billions of dollars of extra costs on the already fragile U.S. economy, but insurance companies are likely to emerge relatively unscathed. Most of Irene’s damage was from flooding, which the government insures, instead of wind, which insurance companies cover, meaning insurers could pay out as little as $1.5 billion by some [...]

The anticipation of another round of summer spot storms is now attached to a bit on anxiety, considering the damage yesterday’s storms caused. Today we expect a high of 99 degrees and a 20% chance of showers. By tonight temps will fall into the lower 70s. The “20%” chance of storms yesterday stayed true to [...]

Sunday night’s wild and wicked weather dumped heavy rain, hail and spawned at least two  confirmed tornadoes near New Salem. Some bridges and roads in Morton County were closed Monday as creeks swelled up with runoff the morning after the storms. Tammy Lapp Harris, Morton County emergency manager, said a bridge over the Big Muddy [...]

“I don’t think we’re done counting,” Nixon told The Associated Press, adding, “I still believe that because of the size of the debris and the number of people involved that there are lives to be saved.” Crews found bodies in vehicles the storm had flipped over, torn apart and left crushed like empty cans. Triage [...]

Aren’t you glad it’s Friday? Do you want to maybe cry a little in celebration? Then check out this video, below, of Judy Pugh, whose home was destroyed by the tornadoes that swept through Tuscaloosa, Alabama on April 27. The ferocious twister left at least 39 dead in Tuscaloosa alone.

The National Weather Service is confirming that two tornadoes touched down in western Maryland. One happened near Hagerstown Tuesday. The tornado did plenty of damage before dissipating. Andrea Fujii reports residents just outside Hagerstown are cleaning up the damage from the tornado that was caught on tape. “And a terrible noise. It was coming, exactly [...]

At least 56 people have died in northern India in the aftermath of powerful thunderstorms late Wednesday evening, local time. Times of India, citing All India Radio, described the deadly weather as “severe duststorm, accompanied by rain and thundershowers.”

The “Cinderella dress” Delana Blevins had so looked forward to wearing to prom just needed a few alterations when the tornadoes ripped through northwest Georgia late last month, blowing it away along with the rest of the tailoring shop. All she found in the rubble was a scrap of beading from the bodice. “I was [...]

Tom Parker shook his head and seemed near tears as he talked about all that he lost in an April 27 tornado that ripped apart the northern Alabama farm where he grew up and had spent much of his adult life raising chickens, cows and three children. The tornado, one in a series of storms [...]