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You've got to love hurricane season.
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In the space of two weeks, Hurricane Gustav has caused an estimated $3 billion in losses in the U.S. and killed about 110 people in the U.S. and the Caribbean, catastrophic floods in northern India have left a million people homeless, and a 6.2-magnitude earthquake has rocked China's southwest, smashing over 400,000 homes...
... It is tempting to look at the line-up of storms in the Atlantic (Hanna, Ike, Josephine) and, in the name of everything green, blame climate change for this state of affairs. But there is another inconvenient truth out there: We are getting more vulnerable to weather mostly because of where we live, not just how we live.
More at linkj:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20080904/us_time/whydisastersaregettingworseIn the space of two weeks, Hurricane Gustav has caused an estimated $3 billion in... more
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* Hanna could become hurricane before hitting Carolinas
* Hanna death toll rises to 90 in Haiti
* Ike grows to Category 4 storm, could threaten Bahamas
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Sept 4 (Reuters) - Powerful Hurricane Ike charged across the Atlantic toward the Bahamas and the U.S. east coast on Thursday while Tropical Storm Hanna's death toll from floods and mudslides in Haiti grew to 90.
Hanna churned just east of the far-flung Bahamian chain of 700 islands on a path that was expected to take it to the U.S. East Coast near the South Carolina-North Carolina border on Saturday as a weak hurricane.
Ike posed no immediate threat to land and it remained too early to say if it would threaten Caribbean islands, the U.S. East Coast or the U.S. oil fields in the Gulf of Mexico.
Ike hurricane weakened slightly on Thursday after growing explosively in the space of a few hours on Wednesday from a tropical storm to an intense Category 4 hurricane on the five-step Saffir-Simpson intensity scale.
Tropical Storm Josephine also marched across the Atlantic on a westward course behind Ike but it had begun to weaken.
The burst of storm activity followed Hurricane Gustav's rampage through the Caribbean to the Louisiana coast, where it slammed ashore on Monday west of New Orleans, largely sparing the city devastated by Hurricane Katrina three years ago.
The flurry of storms was a clear signal that this six-month hurricane season is on track to be a ferociously busy one, though not like record-busting 2005 when 28 tropical storms, including Katrina, rolled across the Atlantic and Caribbean.
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You've got to love hurricane season.
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Haiti faces a "catastrophe" after being hit by a series of storms in recent weeks, President Rene Preval has said.
Three storms in less than 21 days have killed 170 people and forced thousands to flee their homes in the Caribbean nation, officials say.
The latest, Tropical Storm Hanna, could prove even more deadly than one that killed more than 3,000 people in 2004, Mr Preval warned.
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Hanna became the fourth hurricane of the Atlantic hurricane season Monday afternoon and headed toward the Georgia coast with maximum sustained winds at 75 mph.
Though a storm-forecasting model had Hanna arriving in Savannah on Friday, officials said the storm could shift and make landfall anywhere from the Carolinas south to Florida.
“We’re watching Hanna, talking to state partners,” Ginger Edwards, director of the FEMA Regional Response Coordination Center, said Sunday. “Our Atlantic states are paying attention.”
Brandon Bolinski, FEMA’s hurricane program manager, told representatives from the military, relief organizations and other federal agencies in a Sunday night briefing winds from Hurricane Gustav are “imposing a shear on [Tropical Storm] Hanna. As long as Gustav is around, Hanna can’t get going.”
He said once Gustav has moved over land and dissipated, Hanna, now in the Atlantic east of the Bahamas, should gather strength and “start moving,” most likely on Wednesday.
“It will be formidable,” Bolinski said. “We’ll probably be turning our attention to it quick.”
Hurricane Hanna has already begun to churn the ocean waters off the Southeast coast. On Sunday afternoon, numerous rescues by lifeguards were carried out along the North Carolina coast and lifeguards along the Georgia coast reported several rip currents.
Meanwhile, two more systems developing in the Atlantic Ocean, about halfway between northern Africa and Cuba, and Bolinski said one of them could be significant.Hanna became the fourth hurricane of the Atlantic hurricane season Monday afternoon... more
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