Mexico offered to deliver aid to Texas in late August, after the state was struck by Hurricane Harvey and flooding. But Mexico is now grappling with the aftermath of two natural disasters.An 8.1-magnitude earthquake struck off Mexico’s southern coast last Thursday. The earthquake struck the states of Oaxaca, Chiapas and Tabasco, and killed 95 people, […]
Category: Environmental
Governor Asks Nation To Pray For Florida As Irma Begins Assault
Hurricane Irma has begun its assault on Florida as a category 4 storm, lashing the area with winds near 130mph (215km/h) and drenching rain. Millions of people huddled in shelters or in battened-down homes in preparation as Irma’s northern eyewall – the area just outside the eye of the storm, where the most damaging winds […]
Florida Governor Says That Irma Is “Deadly, Deadly, Deadly”
Hurricane Irma, the most powerful Atlantic storm in a decade, hit Cuba overnight as a rare Category 5 storm before being downgraded to a Category 3 Saturday morning. It is expected to strengthen again as it heads toward Florida. As of about 3 p.m. Saturday, Irma was 140 miles southeast of Key West with winds […]
1.3 Million Florida Residents Are Under Mandatory Evacuation Due To Irma
At least 1.3 million Florida residents are under mandatory evacuation ahead of Hurricane Irma, which is slated to strike the state as a Category 4 storm on Sunday morning. Florida Gov. Rick Scott, who declared a statewide emergency earlier this week, said additional evacuations are expected to be issued as Hurricane Irma approaches the state. […]
Florida, Georgia And South Carolina Declare State Of Emergency In Advance Of Irma
As Hurricane Irma lashes the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico, farther north, states of emergency have been declared in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina, where residents are bracing for the monster storm. This afternoon, the Category 5 storm dubbed “extremely dangerous” by the National Hurricane Center (NHC), was battering the Caribbean, including the U.S. Virgin […]
Hurricane Irma Reaches 175 MPH Winds And A Category 5
NAPLES, FLA. – Hurricane Irma made its first landfall in the Caribbean early Wednesday as the Category 5 storm swirled on a path that could see it strike the Florida coast by the weekend. The eye of Hurricane Irma passed over Antigua and Barbuda around 2 a.m. ET, according to the National Hurricane Center. Residents […]
Hurricane Harvey’s Death Toll Now At 31 And Expected To Rise
Crews in Texas have found the bodies of 31 victims of Harvey’s wrath, and warned on Wednesday that the number of dead would almost certainly soar as water levels across much of the Houston area start to recede. The National Hurricane Center downgraded the storm to a Tropical Depression on Wednesday night. That move comes […]
Major Chemical Plant In Houston Set To Explode In Coming
Arkema SA expects chemicals to catch fire or explode at its heavily flooded plant in Crosby, Texas in the coming days, and has no way to prevent that from happening, the chief executive officer of the company’s North America unit said on Wednesday. The company evacuated remaining workers on Tuesday and Harris County ordered the […]
Trump Is In Texas To View Damage And Destruction Of Hurricane Harvey
Thanking local government officials and emergency response leaders in Texas Tuesday for their actions in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, President Donald Trump stopped short of offering his “congratulations” for a job well done, saying that there is still work left to do. “We won’t say congratulations. We don’t want to do that. We don’t […]
Hurricane Harvey Death Toll Reaches At Least 5 As Texas Suffers
Hurricane Harvey has killed at least five people, as the storm continues to batter Texas with rain and floods, according to new reports. But the true death toll remains unclear as rescuers struggle to reach many stranded in the state’s worst storm in more than 50 years, according to the Houston Chronicle. “It’s catastrophic, unprecedented, […]
Hurricane Harvey Grows To Category 3 As It Closes In On Texas
Hurricane Harvey, on track to hit the Texas coast late Friday or early Saturday, has been upgraded to a Category 3 storm, with sustained winds close to 120 mph. Forecasters say the storm surge, coupled with tremendous rainfall, threatens to cause significant flooding along much of the state’s coastline. Harvey will be the first major […]
Hurricane Harvey Bearing Down On Texas As It Gains Intensity
As Hurricane Harvey grows in strength to a Category 2 storm and approaches Texas, local officials have a message to those considering riding out the storm: “Get out now.” The first major hurricane to hit Texas in nearly nine years, labeled by forecasters as a “life-threatening storm,” could bring up to three feet of rain, […]