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Alabama Power Plant Risks Catastrophic Coal Ash Spill
By Benjamin Seidman
BUCKS, Alabama, February 6, 2022 (ENS) – A new digital mapping tool shows that a Category 2 hurricane, packing winds up to 110 mph, could create a [...]
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Back-to-back Hurricanes Forecast to Double on U.S. Gulf Coast
WASHINGTON, DC, November 11, 2021 (ENS) – The interval between tropical storms making landfall along the U.S. Gulf Coast has been getting shorter over the past 40 years. By the [...]
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Hurricane Ida Survivors Get Help for Power, Home Restoration
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, September 3, 2021 (ENS) – At least 66 people across nine U.S. states have died due to Ida in her various phases from Category 4 hurricane when [...]
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Ida Still Dangerous with Heavy Rains, Storm Surge, Power Outages
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, August 30, 2021 (ENS) – Precisely 16 years after devastating Hurricane Katrina made landfall, another major hurricane hit southern Louisiana around noon on Sunday. Hurricane Ida came [...]
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Hurricane Forecast: Henri Heads for New York, New England
MIAMI, Florida, August 20, 2021 (ENS) – Hurricane Hunter Aircraft from NOAA and the U.S. Air Force Reserve flying into the midst of what is now Tropical Storm Henri off [...]
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Deadly 2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season Smashes Records
WASHINGTON, DC, December 7, 2020 (ENS) – The extremely active 2020 Atlantic hurricane season is finally over, after a record-breaking 30 named storms and 12 landfalling storms in the [...]
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Hurricane Eta Kills 3 Central Americans, Aims at Florida
MIAMI, Florida, November 4, 2020 (ENS) – Slow-moving, wet and windy, Hurricane Eta made landfall south of Puerto Cabezas, on the coast of Nicaragua as a Category 4 hurricane [...]
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Zeta Strikes Louisiana, Fifth Hurricane This Season
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, October 28, 2020 (ENS) – Hurricane Zeta has just made landfall as a 110 mile per hour, Category 2 hurricane near Cocodrie, Louisiana, a fishing, shrimping [...]
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Hurricane Laura Roughs Up Louisiana, Texas, Kills 18
LAKE CHARLES, Louisiana, August 31, 2020 (ENS) – One of the 10 strongest hurricanes ever to make landfall in the United States, Hurricane Laura struck Louisiana in the middle [...]
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Dangerous 2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season Predicted
COLLEGE PARK, Maryland, May 21, 2020 (ENS) – There is a 60 percent chance of an above-normal 2020 Atlantic hurricane season, with three to six major hurricanes, forecasters [...]