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"Bikes For Kids" Helps Hurricane Sandy Victims
Last year, I did a Mommy Minute story about Bikes For Kids, a wonderful, local organization with a simple mission: all children deserve to enjoy a bicycle. In a crammed garage, a few guys refurbish used bikes for boys and girls in need. They are intense...
Tags: Hurricane Sandy (2012), Old Saybrook, Family, Holidays, Christmas
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Activities For Families With Cancelled Halloween
Well, we still have no power...and we found out last night that our Halloween parades - at school and in town - are cancelled because of the downed trees and power lines in our area....a result of Hurricane Sandy. Town officials are trying to keep the...
Tags: Hurricane Sandy (2012), Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), Science and Technology, Science, Halloween
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Storm Barry heads for Mexico Gulf coast oil installations
ReutersMEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Barry, the second of the Atlantic Hurricane season, churned toward Mexico on Wednesday, threatening to bring heavy rains to key oil and power installations near the country's Gulf coast. The Minatitlan oil...Tags: Petroleum Industry, Renewable Energy, Environmental Issues, National Hurricane Center, Mexico
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UPDATE 1-Storm Barry heads for Mexico Gulf coast oil installations
ReutersMEXICO CITY, June 19 (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Barry, the second of the Atlantic Hurricane season, churned toward Mexico on Wednesday, threatening to bring heavy rains to key oil and power installations near the country's Gulf coast. The Minatitlan...Tags: Petroleum Industry, Renewable Energy, Environmental Issues, National Hurricane Center, Heavy Engineering
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New York adds 600,000 residents to storm evacuation zones
In the wake of deadly Superstorm Sandy, New York officials have added 600,000 residents to the city's storm evacuation zones, according to maps released Tuesday. The new designation divides the most endangered areas into six zones with 2.9 million...
Tags: Hurricane Sandy (2012), New York City, Politics, Manhattan (New York City), Housing and Urban Planning
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Utilities, Malloy Say State Is Ready For Damaging Weather
The Hartford CourantGov. Dannel P. Malloy summoned the heads of the state's power and communications companies to Hartford on Tuesday for a closed-door, hour-long meeting on preparations for the next big storm. "We may not get everything right every time, but we will...Tags: Connecticut Light and Power, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Dannel P. Malloy , Verizon Communications, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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Coastal cities and climate change: You're going to get wet
BEFORE Hurricane Sandy tore through New York and New Jersey, it stopped in Florida. Huge waves covered beaches, swept over Fort Lauderdale’s concrete sea wall and spilled onto A1A, Florida’s coastal highway. A month later another series of...Tags: Hurricane Sandy (2012), Hurricane Andrew (1992), FEMA, Michael Bloomberg, Atlantic Ocean
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Season's second tropical depression forms; no threat to U.S.
The season's second tropical depression formed Monday along the Mexican coast, nearly two weeks after Tropical Storm Andrea, but it's uncertain whether it will become Tropical Storm Barry. The system was bringing heavy rains to the Yucatan Peninsula,...
Tags: Mexico, Weather, Tropical Storms, Tropical Weather, Weather Reports
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Palm Beach County emergency director stresses hurricane preparedness
Although the National Hurricane Center is getting better at predicting the course of storms, emergency managers in Palm Beach County continue to caution that even though certain areas might not be "in the cone," the public must stay vigilant and prepared....
Tags: Hurricane Isaac (2012), Wireless Technology, NASA, Tropical Storms, Palm Beach County
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Hot and mostly sunny this week
Sun SentinelExpect a hot week with the usual chance of afternoon storms, pretty much the norm for late spring. You also can expect the heat to continue to build over the coming weeks, as we make our way into summer. South Florida's Monday forecast calls for...Tags: Hurricane Andrew (1992), Weather, Weather Reports, Natural Disasters
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Emergency response team preps for hurricane season
As hurricane season approaches, many people are more concerned with their safety in the event of an emergency, and the College Park Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) is ready to teach others how to be prepared. The group will offer evening classes...Tags: Health and Safety at School, FEMA, Entertainment, Radio, College Park (Orlando, Florida)
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Urban flood advisory for parts of Broward
Sun SentinelAn urban flood advisory has been issued for east central Broward County. The National Weather Service says radar has detected heavy rainfall in excess of 3 inches per hour in some areas. The rain is expected to continue until at least 2 p.m. The...Tags: Lake Okeechobee, Weather Radar, Plantation, Weather, National Weather Service
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