Category Archives: Natural Events

Snow in Northeast could cut power to millions

By doris | Published: October 28, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com NEW YORK — It’s a recipe for mass power outages: up to 15 inches of snow forecast in parts of the Northeast on Saturday — much of it landing on trees that have yet to shed their leaves in fall. “We’re expecting this very heavy and wet snow, and a lot [...]

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Gadhafi family reportedly flees to Algeria

By doris | Published: August 29, 2011

Full Story atmsnbc.com TRIPOLI, Libya — Members of Moammar Gadhafi’s family have entered Algeria, Algeria’s state news agency said Monday, but the whereabouts of the ousted Libyan leader were unknown. Libyan rebels claimed to have killed one of his sons. The report by APS news agency cited Algeria’s Foreign Affairs Ministry as saying Gadhafi’s wife [...]

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Winds spread over eastern North Carolina as Irene nears landfall

By doris | Published: August 26, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina (CNN) — Hurricane Irene had coastal North Carolina and metropolitan New York in its sights late Friday, staying on an unusual track that could bring deadly storm surge, heavy rainfall and misery to millions. With winds near 100 mph, Irene churned toward an anticipated 7 a.m. [...]

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‘Dangerous’ heat wave creeps east

By doris | Published: July 19, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Take me out to the ball game? For some dealing with this relentless heat wave, that idea could make you think twice. The heat wave that has taken hold of much of the upper Midwest over the past few days is taking its toll on just about everyone — [...]

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What’s ailing America’s national parks?

By doris | Published: June 28, 2011

Full Story at OverheadBin.msnbc.msn.com As president of the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA), Tom Kiernan is, not surprisingly, a fan of Ken Burns’ documentary, “The National Parks: America’s Best Idea,” but he’d like to add an addendum. “The national parks are America’s best idea,” he said, “but they’re not in the best of health.” In [...]

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La. spillway to be opened; 25,000 people could be in harm’s way of floods

By doris | Published: May 14, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com LAKE PROVIDENCE, La. — Army engineers prepared Saturday to slowly open the gates of an emergency spillway along the rising Mississippi River, diverting floodwaters from Baton Rouge and New Orleans, yet inundating homes and farms in parts of Louisiana’s populated Cajun country. About 25,000 people and 11,000 structures could be in [...]

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Jindal: Morganza Spillway could open within the next 24 hours

By doris | Published: May 13, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers could open the Morganza Spillway within the next 24 hours, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal said Friday. The Corps said it will operate the Morganza Spillway once river flows reach a certain trigger: 1.5 million cubic feet per second. Opening the spillway would lower [...]

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Flooding of Southern Farms Poised to Wreak Havoc on Economy

By doris | Published: May 10, 2011

Full Story at FoxNews.com The historic flooding in the South is poised to wreak havoc on the economy at multiple levels, likely putting local farmhands out of work while contributing to the nationwide rise in food prices. As the Mississippi River crests and the flooding spreads to Mississippi and Louisiana, the vital grain crops in [...]

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Memphis eyes crest; New Orleans gets some flood help

By doris | Published: May 9, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com The Army Corps of Engineers began opening the Bonnet Carre spillway 28 miles north of New Orleans Monday morning to divert part of the river flow to Lake Pontchartrain. Opening the spillway has no impact on homes or businesses.

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South fears loss of national interest in twister recovery

By doris | Published: May 7, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com HARVEST, Ala. — The Rev. Michael Katschke is worried, but not about running out of the food, diapers and other supplies he hands out to tornado victims at the Crosswinds United Methodist Church in northern Alabama. Katschke is worried about the rest of the country just moving on. “They’re going to [...]

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On 100th birthday, he married the woman of his dreams

By doris | Published: May 6, 2011

Full Story at TODAY.msnbc.msn.com How does it feel to become an Internet sensation and international phenom when you’re 90 years old? How about when you’re 100 years old? Answer: Exhilarating — and exhausting. Just ask Rose Pollard Lunsway, 90, and Forrest Lunsway, 100. The California couple of nearly 30 years have been making headlines because [...]

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Twister outbreak is second deadliest in US history

By doris | Published: April 30, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — The death toll from this week’s storms rose to 343 Saturday, according to an NBC News count, making the tornado outbreak the second deadliest in U.S. history. That number could rise with hundreds of people apparently still missing following the disaster. In Tuscaloosa, Ala., alone, up to 446 [...]

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Austrian authorities reveal find of buried treasure

By doris | Published: April 23, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com VIENNA – A man turning dirt in his back yard stumbled onto buried treasure — hundreds of pieces of centuries-old jewelry and other precious objects that Austrian authorities described Friday as a fairy-tale find. Austria’s department in charge of national antiquities said the trove consists of more than 200 rings, brooches, [...]

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Cities are going dark for the Earth

By doris | Published: March 25, 2011

Full Story at CosmicLog.msnbc.msn.com Cities around the world are going dark on Saturday night for the annual Earth Hour event, which aims to raise awareness about actions people can take for the environment’s sake. The campaign, now in its fourth year, boasting participation of more than 4,000 cities in 131 countries and territories around the [...]

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Power lines reconnected to Japan’s quake-damaged nuclear plant

By james | Published: March 22, 2011

Full Story at LATimes.com Lights are turned on in the control room of reactor No. 3 at the Fukushima complex, but officials warn that equipment must be checked before the restored electricity can be used to operate cooling systems at the plant. Meanwhile, the death toll from the quake and tsunami rises to nearly 10,000, [...]

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WHO: No short-term risk from contaminated food

By doris | Published: March 21, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com Tokyo (CNN) — Short-term exposure to food contaminated by radiation from Japan’s damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant poses no immediate health risk, a spokesman for the World Health Organization said Monday. The United Nations organization initially said the food safety situation was “more serious” than originally thought. But spokesman Peter Cordingley [...]

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Weekend full moon the biggest in about 20 years

By doris | Published: March 18, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — If the moon looks a little bit bigger and brighter this weekend, there’s a reason for that. It is. Saturday’s full moon will be a super “perigee moon” — the biggest in almost 20 years. This celestial event is far rarer than the famed blue moon, which happens once [...]

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Experts: U.S. won’t feel health effects from Japan

By doris | Published: March 16, 2011

Full Story at The Chart.Blogs.cnn.com The situation at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan, which has suffered numerous fires, explosions and subsequent radiation leaks since Friday’s earthquake, could get worse, and just how much worse is unknown. But health and nuclear safety experts agree that even if radiation levels around the plant reach Chernobyl-like [...]

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180K flee as Japan’s nuke-plant crisis intensifies

By doris | Published: March 13, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com KORIYAMA, Japan – Japanese officials warned of a possible second explosion Sunday at a nuclear plant crippled by the earthquake and tsunami as they raced to stave off multiple reactor meltdowns, but they provided few details about whether they were making progress. More than 180,000 people have evacuated the area, and [...]

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As U.S. damage is measured, man dies trying to photograph tsunami

By doris | Published: March 11, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — A 25-year-old man was declared dead Friday afternoon after being swept out to sea off a northern California beach while trying to photograph a tsunami launched by the massive earthquake near Japan, according to a Del Norte County, California, official. The man’s identity was withheld as authorities tried to [...]

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