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Coastal quandary: rebuild or retreat?
Foremost on my mind as the days lengthen is where I might get my ocean "fix" once summer arrives. Sometimes I crave the New Jersey shore where I vacationed as a kid, other times the Maryland beaches since I lived there during summers in college. This...
Tags: Government, Hurricane Sandy (2012), Andrew Cuomo, Politics, FEMA
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Winter was 20th mildest for U.S., 15th warmest for Md.
The average temperature across the country was almost 2 degrees above normal this meteorological winter, ranking as 20th-mildest in the past 118 years, according to climatologists. In Maryland, the winter was even more of an aberration, ranking 15th-...
Tags: Weather Statistics, BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport, Weather
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March 12 is Virginia's Statewide Tornado Drill
WDBJ7 Multimedia JournalistOn March 12th businesses and organizations, schools and colleges, families and individuals will practice taking cover from tornadoes by participating in the annual safety exercise. On Tuesday, at 9:45 a.m. the National Weather Service will send a test...Tags: Natural Disasters, National Weather Service, Business, Tornadoes
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Severe weather survival tips
Over the past few years, more than 60 tornadoes have struck areas around the Commonwealth of Virginia. Don't be caught unprepared. Severe weather can damage your home and no building is indestructible by dangerous storms. Here are things you can do to...
Tags: Natural Disasters, First Aid, Tornadoes, Radio, Entertainment
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Tuesday: Warm, breezy, chance of rain
Sun SentinelWarm and breezy conditions should continue today. But drier cooler air is on the way. Temperatures are expected to drop into the 50s on Wednesday night, followed by a cool to mild day on Thursday. That's thanks to a cold front advancing toward South...Tags: Weather Reports, Weather
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2 Civil War sailors from the Monitor to be buried at Arlington
This post has been corrected, as indicated belowWASHINGTON--One hundred and fifty years after their Civil War ironclad sank, two unknown sailors from the Monitor will be buried at Arlington National Cemetery on Friday. Burial comes a year after officials in Washington unveiled forensic...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Unrest, Conflicts and War, New Year's Day, Hampton Roads
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Drought's impact assessed by USD Prof
VERMILLION - "Drought is a leading economic loss for the United States," said Dr. Mark R. Sweeney, a member of the Earth Sciences Department at University of South Dakota, during a talk last week at the W.H. Over Museum in Vermillion. He said that the...Tags: Droughts, Natural Disasters, Water Supply, Greenland, Environmental Issues
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Harford dodges worst of late season snowstorm with mainly rain
Much of the predicted snowstorm that closed local schools and put highway crews on the alert Wednesday failed to materialize in Harford County. Predictions for snow accumulations fluctuated as the late-winter storm system, known as Winter Storm Saturn,...Tags: Snow Storms, Washington, DC, Transportation Accidents, Local Government, National Weather Service
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Tornado drill across Virginia set for March 12
A statewide tornado drill is scheduled for March 12 at 9:45 a.m. with a tone alert sent out over radio and television broadcasts. Over the past two years, 62 tornadoes have touched down in Virginia, said a state spokesman. The twisters have claimed...Tags: Natural Disasters, National Weather Service, Tornadoes, Weather Warnings, Gloucester County
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Preparing your home for storms
Jill Sorensen's basement flooded after a winter storm knocked out her power, then again in 2011 during Hurricane Irene.
What stopped another encore performance during last year's derecho? She'd installed a sump pump that uses her home's water pressure to...Tags: Hurricane Sandy (2012), Natural Disasters, Meteorological Disasters, Environmental Issues, Timonium
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Gov. Nixon declares state of emergency, urges no travel if possible
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Governor on Thursday declared a state of emergency in Missouri in response to severe winter weather that began early in the morning, bringing hazardous travel and the possibility of power outages. The weather system has...
Tags: Government, Snow Storms, Regional Authority, Meteorological Disasters, Conservation
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Climate change rally brings thousands to protest in Washington
This post has been updated and corrected. See the note below for details.Climate activists descended on Washington, D.C., on Sunday in what organizers boasted was the largest climate-change rally in American history, claiming more than 35,000 attendees. The Forward on Climate rally, as it was billed by environmental groups...Tags: Washington, DC, Global Change, Conservation, TransCanada Corporation, NASA
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