Member 3432U.S. government sees active Atlantic hurricane season (Reuters)23-05-2008 03h27Reuters - The 2008 Atlantic hurricane season will be active with 12 to 16 named storms, six to nine of which are expected to become hurricanes, the U.S. government's top climate agency predicted on Thursday. US government: Up to 9 Atlantic hurricanes in 2008 (AP)23-05-2008 02h28AP - The 2008 Atlantic hurricane season could be slightly busier than average, with a good chance of six to nine hurricanes forming, federal forecasters said Thursday in a new way of making predictions. AP IMPACT: Leaky New Orleans levee alarms experts (AP)22-05-2008 15h39AP - Despite more than $22 million in repairs, a levee that broke with catastrophic effect during Hurricane Katrina is leaking again because of the mushy ground on which New Orleans was built, raising serious questions about the reliability of the city's flood defenses. Border agents won't slow hurricane evacuations (AP)22-05-2008 08h01AP - Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff clarified that federal border agents would not impede a hurricane evacuation from south Texas by checking fleeing residents' documents, diverting from plans confirmed by Border Patrol officials in the state only days earlier. New Orleans ready for hurricane, but holes remain (Reuters)21-05-2008 22h55Reuters - The last two Atlantic hurricane seasons passed with barely a stir in south Louisiana, sparing New Orleans another disaster. But some local officials fear the respite may have contributed to a false sense of safety in parts of the city that still face great danger. Why a Gulf wetlands may become a city (The Christian Science Monitor)21-05-2008 17h00The Christian Science Monitor - If America learned one thing from hurricane Katrina, hydrologists argue, it should be this: Don't fill in tideland marshes and build on them. Such human activity, they insist, diminishes the marshes' ability to absorb some of the wallop of storms as they strike coastal communities. Death toll in Philippine storm up to 37 (AP)21-05-2008 12h19AP - The Philippine disaster agency says the death toll from a tropical storm that battered the northern Philippines over the weekend has risen from 12 to 37. <<< Prev member Next member >>> Randon Members Member 4303 Member 2869 Member 661 Member 2021 Member 2930 Member 260 Member 3019 Member 104 Member 703 Member 4572 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 | |
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