April 16, 2012 These images of Hurricane Hilda hitting south Louisiana in 1964 are reminders of the devestation a hurricane can leave behind as Louisiana heads into what experts believe could be a fairly active hurrican season.
November 8, 2011 I may have figured it out:
When I got home from work last night, the electricity was out. This is the first time in a long time that I can remember the lights being out, but I was determined to not allow it to ruin my evening.
September 2, 2011 The Vermilion Parish Police Jury will have sand and bags with a shovel available for Vermilion Parish residents to fill themselves at: Across from Erath City Hall, Area 2 Barn (Perry), Area 3 Barn in Gueydan, Area 4 Barn i
September 2, 2011 A tropical storm warning has been posted from Pascagoula, Mississippi to Sabine Pass, Texas and forecasters predict that it will become Tropical Storm Lee soon. The Louisiana coast is preparing for a system
September 1, 2011 Could tropical weather be in our near future? Forecasters in Miami are watching clouds and thunderstorms in the eastern Gulf of Mexico which are associated with a trough of low pressure. They are reporting that there is a 60% chance of development into a 'tropical cyclone' over the next couple of days.
Cleanup efforts have begun in communities that were devastated by Hurricane Irene over the weekend. Although trucks and supplies from the Federal Emergency Management Agency are en route, access to some areas has been cut off by floodwaters that washed out or damaged roads and bridges.
“Irene was gonna land somewhere. We’re not Manhattan, our small streams quickly became big rivers,” Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin told The Brattleboro (Vt.) Reformer. “We’ve lost churches, homes and historic bridges. But we will rebuild.”
August 29, 2011 I think that it should be in the curricula of every high school in America: A field trip to Washington, D. C. Really. I would recommend the sophomore year, maybe as part of an American History class or Civics class (do they even still call it that?)
One of Hurricane Irene‘s unfortunate structural victims this weekend was the 141-year-old Bartonsville Covered Bridge in Bartonsville, Vermont.
Before weakening to a tropical storm, the first hurricane of the season hit the Eastern seaboard with torrential rains, strong winds and floods.
Hurricane Irene made landfall on Saturday in North Carolina, moved northward along the coast then slammed into Little Egg Inlet, N.J., as a Category 1 storm. Despite predictions, Irene then lost steam as it lumbered toward New England.
Whenever natural disasters strike, news stations often send out a few poor saps to report from the scene. With Hurricane Irene, we typically saw wind-whipped, rain-soaked correspondents in various locations talking about the storm’s fury.
But if there’s an award for Most Deserving of Hazard Pay, it has to go to Washington, DC Fox affiliate WTTG’s Tucker Barnes.
Over a million people in North Carolina and Virginia are currently without power after Hurricane Irene came ashore on Saturday, and other states further north are bracing for impact on Sunday.
