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Federal officials sold hundreds of emergency trailers for disaster victims at fire-sale prices in the months before Hurricane Sandy churned toward the United States, The Washington Examiner has learned. Now, with thousands of families left homeless in New York and New Jersey by the hurricane, those same federal officials are poised to spend more taxpayer dollars to buy brand-new trailers. In all, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has sold nearly 900 of the prefabricated [...] Merriam-Webster’s dictionary defines deja vu as “a feeling that one has seen or heard something before.” Exhibit A: May 2012 in the western Atlantic Ocean. Just last weekend we saw our first named storm of the season, Alberto, form near the Southeast coast, taking a strange, c-shaped track, wrapping some light rainbands into parts of the coast from far northeast Florida to the Carolinas. Now, just in time for the Memorial Day holiday weekend, an [...] Storm threats could signal an early start to the Atlantic hurricane season. A swirling mass of thunderstorms off the South Carolina coast has a 50 per cent chance of developing into a tropical depression or a tropical storm, weather forecasters said on Saturday. The weather disturbance was in the Atlantic Ocean about 120 miles southeast of Myrtle Beach, in South Carolina, according to forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Miami. The first [...] ORLANDO, Fla. — A tropical system in the Gulf of Mexico will bring rain, possible severe weather and cooler temperatures to Central Florida. VIDEO: Detailed Forecast | Flooding Concerns The system could become a tropical depression as early as Monday, and it has the potential to develop into a tropical storm, which would be named Rina, Local 6 meteorologist Troy Bridges said.”It will likely make a [...] Coastal Watches/Warnings and 5-Day Forecast Cone for Storm Center Click image to zoom in – Download GIS data About this product: This graphic shows an approximate representation of coastal areas under a hurricane warning (red), [...] Weather.com The center of Tropical Storm Lee is very near the Louisiana coast, however its effects are being felt over a much larger area along the Gulf Coast. Showers and thunderstorms with heavy rain will impact portions of LA, MS, AL and the FL Panhandle on Sunday. Isolated tornadoes will continue to be possible near the central Gulf Coast as well (see tornado watches/warnings). In the very early morning hours of [...] Coastal Watches/Warnings and 5-Day Forecast Cone for Storm Center Click image to zoom out – Download GIS data About this product: This graphic shows an approximate representation of coastal areas under a hurricane warning (red), [...] In June 1972 Hurricane Agnes came ashore in the Fla. panhandle and headed north basically following the Appalachian chain. It brought devastating rain to PA and the Finger Lakes region of western NY. Elmira was flooded for several blocks away from the river. The Mt. Morris dam on the Genesee River came within inches of overtopping, something completely unheard of before or since. It eventually went [...] |
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