Deadly hurricane Michael makes landfall in Florida
News | October 11, 2018 10:45 ISTHurricane Michael battered Florida causing uprooting of trees and power outages.
Hurricane Michael battered Florida causing uprooting of trees and power outages.
Based 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.
The hybrid storm, often called a "Medicane" (Mediterranean + hurricane) has features similar to hurricanes and typhoons, CNN reported on Friday.
According 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.
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Hurricane Florence has the potential to bring catastrophic flooding to areas of the eastern United States already soaked by heavy rains.
Evacuation of the state’s entire coastline starting Tuesday noon was ordered by the South Carolina governor and predicted nearly 1 million people would flee.
American Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines issued travel advisories to customers flying to or from Hawaii.
Puerto Rico governor Ricardo Rossello on Tuesday announced that the official death toll from Hurricane Maria has been increased to 34 from 16.
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Leaving at least nine dead in its wake across the Caribbean, Hurricane Maria blew ashore in the morning near the southeast coastal town of Yabucoa as a Category 4 storm.
After Dominica, Maria will move towards Puerto Rico as an 'extremely dangerous major hurricane, and a warning has been issued'.
Authorities had closed schools and government offices on the island and urged people to move from dangerous areas to shelters.
Irma, Atlantic’s most powerful hurricane on record finally sputtered out as an ordinary rainstorm over Ohio and Indiana after claiming at least 61 lives.
Hurricane Irma snapped the Caribbean islands' links to the outside world by pounding their small airports, decapitating cellphone towers, filling harbors with overturned, crushed boats
Hurricane Irma cut a path of devastation across the northern Caribbean, leaving at least 10 dead and thousands homeless
Florida rushed to prepare for a possible direct hit on the Miami area by the Category 5 storm with potentially catastrophic 185 mph winds
Category 5 hurricane Irma is expected to make landfall in Florida this weekend
States of emergency were declared in Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands and all of Florida while people on various Caribbean islands boarded up homes and rushed to find last- minute supplies, forming long lines outside supermarkets and gas stations.
At the time of crisis, Houston people demonstrated humanity to help the pregnant woman through the floodwater.
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