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Your guide to 2013 hurricane season, from A (Andrea) to Z (Zoloft)
The 2013 Atlantic hurricane season begins Saturday. Palm Beach County got flooded by a spinoff of Tropical Storm Isaac (Esau? Jacob?) last August, but South Florida hasn't had a direct hit since Wilma in 2005. Here, as a public disservice, my annual A-to-...Tags: Zoloft (drug), FEMA, Hurricanes, Palm Beach County, Rentals
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Will the Bermuda High help us again this storm season?
Sun SentinelWhether the Bermuda High will punish or protect Florida during hurricane season remains unknown. Washed out by a winter system over the U.S. Southeast, it’s for now a mushy blob of warm air, so diluted that it’s hard to tell where it’s...Tags: National Weather Service, Hurricanes, Politics, Natural Disasters, Executive Branch
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Michiana Red Cross volunteers head to Oklahoma
WSBT-TVMore than a dozen Red Cross volunteers from Michiana will board planes this weekend and head to Oklahoma, where so many families have been displaced after the devastating tornado that hit earlier this week. It’s exactly the kind of relief work the...Tags: American Red Cross, Robin Williams, Natural Disasters, Tornadoes, Hurricane Sandy (2012)
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National Hurricane Center Forecasts 'Active To Extremely Active' Season This Year
The Hartford CourantThe Atlantic Ocean hurricane season this year is expected to be "active or extremely active," federal forecasters said Thursday. The season, which runs from June 1 to Nov. 30, will bring 13 to 20 named storms, of which seven to 11 will be hurricanes,...Tags: Pacific Ocean, FEMA, Oceans, Hurricanes, Caribbean Sea
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Study: Global warming will bring more intense downpours
Sun SentinelSouth Florida, no stranger to heavy rains, could see even more torrential downpours, thanks to global warming. Much of the Northern Hemisphere will be subject to more extreme rain events because of increasing levels of greenhouse gases, according to a...Tags: Palm Beach County, Global Warming, Natural Disasters, Environmental Issues, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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Swamp People Season 4 begins this Valentine’s Day on History
Channel Guide MagazineHistory has plenty to love about its hit series Swamp People, so it may only be fitting that the network is starting Swamp People Season 4 on Valentine's Day — this Thursday, Feb. 14, at 9pm ET. Swamp People was, indeed, a real sweetheart to History... -
Weather Channel special looks back at extreme weather events of 2012
Channel Guide MagazineThe Weather Channel premieres a year-end special called 2012: A Year Out of Season this Friday, Dec. 28, at 8pm ET. The one-hour program explores the brutal weather that ravaged the United States and defined 2012. Weather Channel on-camera meteorologist... -
Warming to the subject
As much as this week's bone-chilling temperatures might offer "cold" comfort to those who deny its existence, the threat of climate change earned a prominent spot in President Barack Obama's inaugural address on Monday. That was welcome, if overdue, given...
Tags: Republican Party, White House, Environmental Politics, Mining, Science and Technology
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'American Idol' recap: Five more women survive sudden death
Another 10 contestants – the last of the women -- shrank to just five on the third night of the Sudden Death rounds in Las Vegas. Surveying the landscape, you can't fault the judges for failing to embrace eclecticism. They gave us …...
Tags: Lady Antebellum (music group), Nicki Minaj, Beyonce, Mariah Carey, Aretha Franklin
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Republicans afraid of the storm? Come to Chicago
With Tropical Storm Isaac threatening to turn into a hurricane and menace the Republican National Convention in Tampa early next week, Republicans must make a decision. They could just get sloshed on rum, margaritas and whiskey and ride out the storm...
Tags: Michael Madigan, James Robert Thompson, 2012 Republican National Convention, Tampa, Republican Party
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'Backyard Monsters': An ant chauffeur's story, set to Metallica
If you go to "Backyard Monsters" at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, the new exhibition of big, animatronic insects and their much smaller, much more genuine counterparts, you probably won't catch wind of what it took to get some of the live insects...
Tags: Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, Labor Day
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Hotels.com to offer assistance to those affected by Isaac
Postcards from FloridaHotels.com is working with partner hotels to assist Gulf Coast travelers who may have plans disrupted due to Hurricane Isaac, the company said on Tuesday. Hotels.com partner hotels are activating flexible booking policies in parts of Florida, Alabama...
May 29, 2013
|Column| South Florida Sun-Sentinel
May 6, 2013
|Story| South Florida Sun-Sentinel
May 24, 2013
|Story| WSBT-TV
May 23, 2013
|Story| Hartford Courant
Apr 4, 2013
|Story| South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Feb 12, 2013
| Zap2It
Dec 26, 2012
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Jan 22, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Feb 28, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Aug 24, 2012
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Oct 17, 2012
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Aug 28, 2012
| Orlando Sentinel
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