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Joplin Construction Tops $715M Since 2011 Tornado
Oct 29 2012 // Construction in Joplin, Mo., since the tornado is approaching three-quarters of a billion dollars. Since May 22, 2011, about $715 million in construction has been started in Joplin, according to the latest building permit...
Hawaii Tsunami Smaller Than Feared; Ports Reopened
Oct 29 2012 // Officials in Hawaii reopened the state’s ports on Sunday and canceled a tsunami advisory as fears receded that there would be damaging waves from a powerful earthquake off the coast of Canada. The Pacific Tsunami...
European Insurance Stocks Hit by Hurricane Sandy Fears
Oct 29 2012 // European shares fell for the first time in four sessions on Monday, with insurance stocks hit by concern about their exposure to the U.S. hurricane, while a backdrop of weak company results also weighed. Traders added that...
Hurricane Sandy Doesn’t Worry Safety-Conscious ‘Preppers’ Homeowners
Oct 28 2012 // Hurricane Sandy is charging up the East Coast as a cold front is tearing across the U.S. from the west and an arctic blast is barreling down from the north. The resulting “Frankenstorm” could cause gale-force...
Hurricane Sandy Forces Evacuations, Shutdowns on East Coast
Oct 28 2012 // Tens of millions of East Coast residents scrambled on Sunday to prepare for Hurricane Sandy, which could make landfall as the largest storm to hit the United States, bringing battering winds, flooding and even heavy...
British Airways Cancels Flights to Hurricane-Hit U.S. Northeast
Oct 28 2012 // British Airways cancelled all flights to New York on Sunday and will suspend most services to and from the U.S. East Coast on Monday as the United States braces for the arrival of Hurricane Sandy. The freak storm, due to...
British Columbia Earthquake Causes Minor Damage, Triggers Tsunami Warning
Oct 28 2012 // A powerful M7.7 earthquake struck British Columbia’s north-central coast on Saturday, Oct. 27, with shaking felts far away as Edmonton and Yukon. The United States Geological Survey said that the earthquake, which...
Insurers Prepare for Hurricane Sandy
Oct 28 2012 // Insurers say they are making the usual preparations for a hurricane – activating claims teams, staging adjusters near the locations most likely to be affected and generally getting ready to pay for a potentially huge...
Update: Hurricane Sandy Could Affect 50 Million People on East Coast
Oct 28 2012 // Authorities shut transit systems and ordered some evacuations as tens of millions of people on the East Coast braced on Sunday for Hurricane Sandy, a gigantic storm forecast to deliver battering winds, dangerous flooding...
Update: Hurricane Sandy Death Toll at 41; ‘Super Storm’ Eyes East Coast
Oct 26 2012 // Hurricane Sandy, a late-season Atlantic storm unlike anything seen in more than two decades, slogged slowly toward the U.S. East Coast on Friday after killing at least 41 people as it cut across the Caribbean. Forecasters...
Get Ready for Hurricane Sandy, Regulators Warn New England Residents
Oct 26 2012 // Vermont insurance regulators are advising New England residents to get ready for Hurricane Sandy, which could hit the U.S. eastern seaboard early next week. Regulators are reminding residents of the destruction suffered...
Hurricane Sandy Leaves 21 Dead in Caribbean
Oct 26 2012 // Hurricane Sandy pounded the Bahamas with battering winds and rain on Friday, sweeping over the island chain after killing 21 people across the Caribbean and posing a menacing threat to the U.S. East Coast. Forecasters...
Hurricane Sandy Could Cause More Damage Than Irene: Experts
Oct 25 2012 // As Hurricane Sandy makes its way toward the eastern seaboard of the United States, disaster experts and meteorologists warn that the mid-Atlantic and Northeastern states face dangerous winds and heavy rains that could...
Major Hurricane Sandy -Frankenstorm- Threatens East Coast
Oct 25 2012 // Hurricane Sandy swelled into a major threat to much of the U.S. East Coast on Thursday after lashing Cuba with heavy rains and tree-toppling winds and swirling through the Bahamas, U.S. forecasters said. Strengthening...
Hurricane Sandy Strengthens to Category 2: RMS
Oct 25 2012 // Sandy has strengthened to a strong category 2 hurricane prior to landfall on the Cuban coast, after crossing over Jamaica as a cat 1 hurricane. The system is forecast to remain a hurricane (cat 1) as it passes through the...
Tropical Storm Sandy Still on Hurricane Track; Tony Is Season’s 19th Storm: RMS
Oct 24 2012 // According to the National Hurricane Center (NHC), as of Wednesday, the center of Tropical Storm Sandy was located over the Caribbean Sea about 160 miles south of Kingston, Jamaica and 315 miles south-southwest of...
Tropical Storm Sandy on Track to Become Hurricane
Oct 23 2012 // Late Monday, Sandy became the eighteenth named storm of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season. According to the National Hurricane Center, Sandy is expected to strengthen during the next 24 hours and become a hurricane on...
Alaska Setting For Japanese Documentary On Tsunami
Oct 22 2012 // A Japanese broadcasting group is filming a documentary about tsunami debris in Kodiak, Alaska this week. NHK, Japan’s national public broadcasting station, is filming a documentary about tsunami debris in Alaska to...
Louisiana Citizens: Claims from Hurricane Isaac 85% Settled
Oct 22 2012 // Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp. reported as of Oct. 15 it has received 17,059 claims from Hurricane Isaac. Ninety-seven percent of those claims have been inspected by company adjusters and 85 percent have been...
Assessing Tropical Cyclone Risk in Hawaii Through the Lens of Hurricane Iniki
Oct 22 2012 // Hurricane Risk in the Central Pacific Basin Twenty years ago, the most powerful storm to strike the Hawaiian Islands in recorded history made landfall on the island of Kauai on Sept. 11, 1992. With sustained winds of 140...
