Category Archives: Natural Events

Falling ice at Super Bowl stadium injures workers

By doris | Published: February 4, 2011

Full Story at  msnbc.com DALLAS — Hard ice and heavy snow slid off Cowboys Stadium’s domed roof Friday, injuring six workers hired to prepare the venue for the Super Bowl, authorities said. The accident followed a storm that dumped 5 inches of snow on Dallas roads and runways, complicating Super Bowl travel plans. One man [...]

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DOUBLE RAINBOW FOR GROUNDHOG DAY 2011

By doris | Published: February 3, 2011

Full Story at ireport.CNN I was out early in the morning on Groundhog’s Day here in Grafton, WV. Snapping some pictures of a few cloud formations that was moving in that morning at around 8:00 am. As I was clicking away on the clouds, I saw from the corner of my left eye something bright…….DOUBLE [...]

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What’s with the donkey in the parking lot?

By doris | Published: December 25, 2010

Full Story at religion.Blog.CNN.com t was a brisk December night, and Little Bit, a pregnant Sicilian miniature donkey, was munching hay as little children poked and pet her. She looked like she could go into labor at any moment there in the parking lot, which an Alexandria, Virginia, church was using for a live nativity [...]

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Moonwatchers treated to total lunar eclipse

By doris | Published: December 22, 2010

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com NEW YORK – Skywatchers got an early holiday present this year: A total eclipse of the moon. Hanging high in the sky, the moon slowly turned from bright silver into a red disk early Tuesday. A total lunar eclipse occurs when the Earth casts its shadow on the full moon, blocking [...]

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Strangers in the night: Lunar eclipse, solstice meet again

By doris | Published: December 21, 2010

Full Story at news.blogs.CNN.com It’s not every lifetime that you get a chance to celebrate a solstice with a total eclipse of the moon. Weather permitting, a lunar eclipse will be visible from 1:33 to 5:01 a.m. ET Tuesday, with the total eclipse starting at about 2:41 a.m., according to NASA. The eclipse happens to [...]

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Igor lashes Canada; Georgette heads toward Mexico

By doris | Published: September 22, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — The storm known as Igor was moving farther away from Canada on Wednesday morning, but could still produce hurricane-force winds in the area. As of 12:30 a.m. local time (11 p.m. ET), Igor was about 445 kilometers (277 miles) east of St. Anthony, Newfoundland, according to the Canadian Weather [...]

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Big waves pound Bermuda as Hurricane Igor nears

By doris | Published: September 19, 2010

Full Story atnews.Yahoo.com HAMILTON, Bermuda – Big waves are pounding Bermuda’s beaches while islanders rush to board up windows, fill sandbags and stock up on water, food and other supplies before Hurricane Igor’s expected arrival late Sunday. In Mexico, people are cleaning up from flooding and wind damage caused by the now dissipated Hurricane Karl. [...]

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Oosterhouse lends hand to rebuilding New Orleans

By doris | Published: September 5, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.msn.com Cause Celeb highlights a celebrity’s work on behalf of a specific cause. This week, Carter Oosterhouse, who first appeared in the public eye as the carpenter on “Trading Spaces,” talks about his work with Rebuilding Together . The organization does volunteer house repairs for the elderly, people with disabilities and those [...]

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Scientists discover monster star

By doris | Published: July 22, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Imagine a star so luminous that it would burn the Earth up if it were anywhere near, a star that outshines the sun as much as the sun outshines the moon. A monster even in the abyss of space. The star is not some scientist’s celestial dream. Astronomers used [...]

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Hurricane Alex drenches Mexico’s northern coast

By doris | Published: July 1, 2010

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com SAN FERNANDO, Mexico – Hurricane Alex ripped off roofs, flooded streets and forced thousands of people to flee coastal fishing villages as it pushed into northern Mexico. The Atlantic season’s first hurricane largely spared nearby Texas, which had prepared for a possible direct hit. While it spawned two tornadoes and caused [...]

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Tropical storm forms as oil spill battle continues

By doris | Published: June 26, 2010

Full Story atCNN.com New Orleans, Louisiana (CNN) — Tropical Storm Alex — the first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season this year — formed in the Caribbean on Saturday as BP continued to battle a massive oil spill in the Gulf. Alex had maximum sustained winds of 40 mph (65 kph) and was about [...]

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6-story Jesus statue in Ohio struck by lightning

By doris | Published: June 16, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com MONROE, Ohio – A six-story statue of Jesus Christ was struck by lightning and burned to the ground, leaving only a blackened steel skeleton and pieces of foam that were scooped up by curious onlookers Tuesday.

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Air travel paralyzed as volcanic ash cloud lingers

By doris | Published: April 17, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com London, England (CNN) — European countries extended their airspace restrictions on Saturday, choking international air travel and stranding thousands of passengers, as an Icelandic volcano continued to spew ash into the atmosphere. Airspace over the United Kingdom and Belgium will be closed until Saturday night, according to the British air traffic [...]

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Volcano flight chaos to continue for 24 hours

By doris | Published: April 16, 2010

Full Story at  msnbc.com LONDON – The European air navigation agency says air traffic disruptions because the volcanic ash cloud will last at least another day. Eurocontrol said in a statement that it expected only about 11,000 flights in European airspace Friday, compared with about 28,000 normally. On Thursday, there were 20,334 flights, it said. [...]

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Severe storms, tornadoes lash Southeast

By doris | Published: March 29, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Emergency management officials will fan out across North Carolina on Monday to survey the damage from severe storms that lashed the state Sunday evening. Residents reported as many as eight tornadoes touching down –overturning mobile homes, ripping out trees and plunging neighborhoods into darkness.

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Snow-weary region expects second wallop

By doris | Published: February 9, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — The mid-Atlantic region continued digging out Monday from the weekend’s record blizzard, but snow-weary residents learned of a new winter storm due in the area on Tuesday. The National Weather Service issued a winter storm warning, with predictions of another 10 to 20 inches of snow, for northern Virginia [...]

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Groundhog sees shadow, more winter

By doris | Published: February 3, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Punxsutawney Phil, America’s most famous rodent prognosticator, saw his shadow Tuesday, signaling six more weeks of winter. Phil emerged from his ceremonial tree stump at Gobbler’s Knob, Pennsylvania, to a cheering crowd that had waited in the cold for his annual prediction. It is the 99th time that Phil [...]

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6.5 earthquake strikes off California coast

By doris | Published: January 10, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com CNN) — A 6.5-magnitude earthquake has struck off the shore of Northern California, leaving thousands of households without power. The quake, which ran about 13.5 miles deep, hit offshore at 4:27 p.m. (7:27 p.m. ET) Saturday, about 33 miles from the coastal city of Eureka, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

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Search for Mount Hood hikers becomes recovery effort

By doris | Published: December 17, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — The search for two missing hikers on Oregon’s Mount Hood has moved from a search operation into a recovery operation, authorities said Wednesday. “It was our hope that we might get a window today to take a last look,” Clackamas County, Oregon, Sheriff Craig Roberts told reporters. “Unfortunately, that [...]

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Hurricane Ida moves into U.S. Gulf Coast

By doris | Published: November 9, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Hurricane Ida moved into the southern Gulf of Mexico Sunday, prompting a declaration of emergency in Louisiana and concern along the U.S. Gulf Coast. The storm regained hurricane intensity overnight Saturday, becoming a Category 2 hurricane, but forecasters said it is expected to weaken as it moves north. Ida [...]

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