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Tab for 2012's extreme weather events: $110 billion-plus
The price of extreme weather events continues to rise. Superstorm Sandy and the ongoing drought made 2012 the second costliest weather and climate disaster year since 1980, racking up more than $110 billion in damage. According to the National...
Tags: Droughts, Hurricane Sandy (2012), Natural Disasters
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Kevin Dineen's NHL career statistics
SunSentinel.comtable.tableizer-table {border: 1px solid #CCC; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;} .tableizer-table td {padding: 4px; margin: 3px; border: 1px solid #ccc;} .tableizer-table th {background-color: #104E8B; color: #FFF; font-weight:...Tags: Disasters, Disasters and Accidents, Florida Panthers, Philadelphia Flyers, Sports
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How to survive a zombie apocalypse
chrisc@herald-mail.comZombies. Giant super-storms. Runaway climate change. Alien invasions. Sneak attacks by invading enemy nations. Thrilling stuff of end-of-life-as-we-know-it science fiction books and movies. But as recent news coverage reminds us — Superstorm...Tags: Terrorism, Unrest, Conflicts and War, American Red Cross, New York Weather, Chemical Industry
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'The Axe in the Attic': Filmmakers' self-pity mars Katrina story
Chicago Tribune reporterIn Hurricane Katrina, Lucia Small ("My Father the Genius) and Ed Pincus ("Black Natchez") found the perfect storm on which to train their individual specialties. Small's previous documentary exposed the damage to her family's relationships wreaked by...Tags: Entertainment, Family, Cinema Industry, Chicago Tribune, Documentary (genre)
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Levee improvements bring flood of suspicion
Tribune senior correspondentThe Lizanos and the Baileys, two upper-middle-class New Orleans families, lost their homes when Hurricane Katrina sent torrents of water coursing over the floodwalls that were supposed to protect them. And each family painstakingly rebuilt their house...Tags: Politics, Hurricane Damage, Family, Natural Resources, New Orleans
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Emerging from ruin, Big Easy at crossroads
Tribune senior correspondentNearly two years after Hurricane Katrina flooded 80 percent of New Orleans and drove half its citizens into an exile from which they've yet to return, the Big Easy today is a place of profound contrasts and an uncertain future. Thousands of rotted and...Tags: Health, Murder, Mardi Gras, Tourism and Leisure, Dining and Drinking
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FactFinder 12: EAS message interrupts weather coverage
Factfinder 12 InvestigatorKWCH-TV viewers across Kansas were glued to Storm Team 12 coverage of the severe weather that brought tornadoes to the Great Plains Sunday. - Click here for Storm Shots But just as the storms were bearing down on Wichita, some digital cable viewers...Tags: Television Industry, Media Industry, Satellite and Cable Service
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Quiet tornado season a year after 14 die in Ind.
SOUTH BEND (AP) — A little more than a year after tornadoes ripped across southern Indiana, killing 14 people and damaging or destroying hundreds of homes and businesses, the state has seen a relatively quiet tornado season. Preliminary reports...
Tags: U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Tornadoes, National Weather Service, Natural Disasters
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State senators grill Allstate officials over high rates
South Florida Sun-SentinelDid Allstate Floridian Insurance Co. overcharge homeowner insurance customers last year instead of passing savings to consumers from a state storm fund providing the insurance company with a cheaper financial safety net? That was the appearance to some...Tags: Bill Posey, Charlie Crist, Politics, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice
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Agency paid out hundreds of millions to people who were untouched by disaster
Sun-SentinelThe federal government's mishandling of the Hurricane Katrina catastrophe is only the latest bungling in a national disaster response system that for years has been fraught with waste and fraud. A South Florida Sun-Sentinel investigation has found that...Tags: North Carolina, Television, Accounting and Auditing, Politics, Corporate Crime
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Police urge all parents to get child ID kits
South Florida Sun-SentinelIf the unthinkable happens — your child is abducted — are you prepared to help law enforcement respond as rapidly as possible? Do you have a recent, clear photo of your child? Do you know your child's current weight and height? A child...Tags: FBI, Hurricane Katrina (2005), Justice System, Children, Crime, Law and Justice
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Beth Steel facility shut after plant floods
Sun StaffThe Bethlehem Steel Sparrows Point mill has not made any steel since Hurricane Isabel sent an unprecedented 10-foot storm surge into its power plant last week - possibly the longest unplanned outage in the plant's history. The repairs and lost...Tags: Bethlehem Steel, Career and Workplace, Education, Disasters, Disasters and Accidents
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