Hurricane
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‘Hour of darkness’ for Bahamas; 43 dead, with toll to rise
World | Sep 07, 2019, 09:36 PM ISTPrime Minister Hubert Minnis said late Friday 35 were known dead on Abaco Island and eight in Grand Bahama. “We acknowledge that there are many missing and that the number of deaths is expected to significantly increase,” he said. “This is one of the stark realities we are facing in this hour of darkness.”
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Total devastation: Hurricane slams parts of the Bahamas
World | Sep 04, 2019, 08:10 AM ISTRelief officials reported scenes of utter ruin Tuesday in parts of the Bahamas and rushed to deal with an unfolding humanitarian crisis in the wake of Hurricane Dorian, the most powerful storm on record ever to hit the islands. At least seven deaths were reported, with the full scope of the disaster still unknown.
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Video: Hurricane Dorian submerges Bahamas airport
World | Sep 03, 2019, 06:29 PM ISTVision shot by Bahamas Member of Parliament Iram Lewis showed a current of water passing the flooded Grand Bahama International Airport.
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Hurricane Dorian triggers massive flooding in Bahamas; at least 5 dead
World | Sep 03, 2019, 08:27 AM IST“We are in the midst of a historic tragedy,” Prime Minister Hubert Minnis said in announcing the fatalities. He called the devastation “unprecedented and extensive.”
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Dorian strikes Bahamas as dangerous Category 5 storm
World | Sep 01, 2019, 11:29 PM ISTThe second-strongest Atlantic hurricane since 1950, Dorian hit land in Elbow Cay in the Abaco Islands after authorities made last-minute pleas for those in low-lying areas to evacuate. But officials recognized there were not many structures on higher ground on the largely flat archipelago southeast of Florida.
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Bahamas holds its breath as level five Hurricane Dorian inches closer to make landfall at tropical paradise
World | Sep 01, 2019, 06:14 PM ISTAn already dangerous Hurricane Dorian intensified yet again Sunday as it closed in on the northern Bahamas, threatening to batter islands with Category 5-strength winds, pounding waves and torrential rain as people hunkered down in schools, churches and other shelters.
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Northern Bahamas hunkers down as Hurricane Dorian closes in
World | Sep 01, 2019, 02:56 PM ISTA dangerous Hurricane Dorian closed in on the northern Bahamas early Sunday, threatening to batter islands with 150 mph (240 kph) winds, pounding waves and torrential rain as people hunkered down in schools, churches and other shelters.
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Hurricane Dorian strengthens to 'extremely dangerous' Category 4 storm
World | Aug 31, 2019, 12:33 PM ISTMillions of people in Florida, along with the state’s Walt Disney World and President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, are in the potential crosshairs of the hurricane. Forecasters say Dorian, which had top sustained winds of 140 mph (225 kph) Friday night, will threaten the Florida peninsula late Monday or early Tuesday.
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Trump’s Florida Mar-a-Lago resort in Hurricane Dorian’s path
World | Aug 31, 2019, 06:43 AM ISTThe resort, currently closed for the summer, is on the wealthy barrier island of Palm Beach. No activity could be seen there Friday afternoon and the Trump Organization did not return a call seeking comment.
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Hurricane Dorian gains fury but might skirt Florida coast
World | Aug 31, 2019, 06:41 AM ISTTrump declared a state of emergency in Florida and authorized the Federal Emergency Management Agency to coordinate disaster-relief efforts.
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‘A big deal’: Florida braces for Hurricane Dorian
World | Aug 30, 2019, 08:03 AM ISTFlorida residents picked the shelves clean of bottled water and lined up at gas stations Thursday as an increasingly menacing-looking Hurricane Dorian threatened to broadside the state over Labor Day weekend.
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Trump cancels Poland trip as hurricane heads to Florida
World | Aug 30, 2019, 07:16 AM ISTTrump said he had delivered the news of the cancellation to Polish President Andrzej Duda earlier Thursday and plans to reschedule the trip — which would have been his second to Warsaw — in the “near future.”
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Hurricane Dorian aims for US, causes limited damage in Caribbean
World | Aug 29, 2019, 06:34 AM ISTPower outages and flooding were reported across the U.S. Virgin Islands, the British Virgin Islands and the Puerto Rican islands of Vieques and Culebra after Dorian hit St. Thomas as a Category 1 storm.
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Tropical storm Barry makes landfall in Louisiana
World | Jul 14, 2019, 08:53 AM ISTTropical storm Barry made landfall in the US state of Louisiana and has weakened to a storm from a hurricane.
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Tropical storm Barry to make landfall in Louisiana today, likely to strengthen to Category 1 hurricane
World | Jul 13, 2019, 02:23 PM ISTPeople boarded up buildings, stocked up on water and braced for torrents of rain and punishing wind from a strengthening Tropical Storm Barry that threatened millions as it churned a path ashore and tested efforts to guard against flooding since Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans 14 years ago.
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Portugal, Spain on high alert as 'zombie' Hurricane Leslie prepares for landfall
World | Oct 14, 2018, 01:21 PM ISTSpain was also preparing itself for what was dubbed a "zombie" hurricane, as it first formed on September 23 and has been meandering through the waters of the Atlantic Ocean for weeks.
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Deadly hurricane Michael makes landfall in Florida
News | Oct 11, 2018, 10:45 AM ISTHurricane Michael battered Florida causing uprooting of trees and power outages.
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At least one killed as deadly hurricane Michael makes landfall in Florida, charges into southeast US
World | Oct 11, 2018, 11:05 AM ISTBased on its internal barometric pressure, Michael was the third most powerful hurricane to hit the US mainland, behind the unnamed Labor Day storm of 1935 and Camille in 1969.
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'Medicane'- Rare, hurricane-like storm likely to make a fall in Europe
World | Sep 28, 2018, 12:23 PM ISTThe hybrid storm, often called a "Medicane" (Mediterranean + hurricane) has features similar to hurricanes and typhoons, CNN reported on Friday.
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Hurricane Florence closes in on Carolinas, mass evacuations ordered
World | Sep 12, 2018, 07:57 AM ISTAccording to the National Weather Service, nearly 4 million people were under a tropical storm watch, while over 5.4 million people reside in areas under hurricane warnings or watches on the US East Coast.