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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: Hurricane Sandy (2012), Tornadoes, Natural Disasters, Robin Williams, American Red Cross
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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: Hurricanes, Bodies of Water, National Hurricane Center, Tropical Weather, Caribbean Sea
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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: Hurricanes, National Hurricane Center, National Weather Service, Executive Branch, Natural Disasters
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Palm Beach County hurricane season preparations target social media, smart phone
The hurricane season to-do list now includes adding friends, followers and apps, along with stockpiling bottled water, canned goods and batteries. With the June start to storm season fast approaching, Palm Beach County is counting on social media...
Tags: Hurricanes, Social Media, Emergency Incidents, Twitter, Inc., Lake Okeechobee
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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: Labor Day, Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
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Will Bermuda High help us again this storm season?
Whether 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 centered....Tags: Hurricanes, National Hurricane Center, National Weather Service, Executive Branch, Natural Disasters
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Team Pedro helps family of man injured after tropical storm
For the family of Pedro Sanchez, the saying "when it rains, it pours" took on a new – and literal - meaning when Tropical Storm Isaac blew through the area last August. Like most families living in the western communities Sanchez's neighborhood...Tags: Tropical Storms
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Costly new levee to guard against Palm Beach County flooding threatens wetlands
Flooding fears lingering from Tropical Storm Isaac's historic soaking of Palm Beach County shouldn't result in destroying wetlands to add a new levee, according to environmental advocates. After Isaac, concerns about a potential breach of the damaged...
Tags: Boynton Beach, South Florida Water Management District, Wetlands, Rick Scott, Wildlife
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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: Science and Technology, Environmental Issues, Natural Disasters, Palm Beach County, Global Warming
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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: Barack Obama, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Republican Party, Global Change, Politics
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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: Beyonce, Mariah Carey, Keith Urban, Aretha Franklin, Nicki Minaj
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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...
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