So what third world country do you want us to send money to so the hurricanes will stop?
Hurricane Maria strengthens as storm nears already battered Caribbean islands
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So what third world country do you want us to send money to so the hurricanes will stop?
Don't worry, first world countries will have enough problems spending billions on themselves to pay for this problem.
When facts don't fit your dogma what else is there besides lies?
Well I'm thinking on putting electric heaters in the driveway so I don't have to plow so often. Seems like the ones the government put in the highway a few years back are cost effective.
Is that how you normally respond to the fact that warmer oceans objectively make hurricanes stronger?
Or is it just Das?
I'm thinking your eyes are crossed right now.
They don't
its temporatur DIFFERENCE which makes them stronger
do to look it up
Like this guy.
Perhaps with the Gulf Stream making shorter circles and the water is a tad warmer when it gets to Africa and then heads west.
Naw, they only want to tax what isn't real so they can keep the money and say they made whatever it was go away.
It's like when these people were burning witches during the last global freeze out a few hundred years ago.
The colder it got the more witches these insane inquisitor types burned...
and of course, they also confiscated all the witches properties and wealth too
Of course there is no such thing as witches, so we all know they were totally full of Sh!T then too...as we do today when they try to use witchcraft ( which, like global warming, doesn't exist) to harm Trump.
So if they Tax hurricanes and then when they don't go away, someone will wind up looking like the complete pile of total lying dufusses they really are.
It's like when these people were burning witches during the last global freeze out a few hundred years ago.
The colder it got the more witches these insane inquisitor types burned...
and of course, they also confiscated all the witches properties and wealth too
Of course there is no such thing as witches, so we all know they were totally full of Sh!T then too...as we do today when they try to use witchcraft ( which, like global warming, doesn't exist) to harm Trump.
So if they Tax hurricanes and then when they don't go away, someone will wind up looking like the complete pile of total lying dufusses they really are.
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Online backlash after Melissa Joan Hart complains Hurricane Maria ruined vacation
WENN.com
First posted: Thursday, September 21, 2017 04:58 PM EDT | Updated: Thursday, September 21, 2017 05:18 PM EDT
Melissa Joan Hart sparked fury when she took to social media to complain that Hurricane Maria had ruined her family vacation.
The 41-year-old actress, most famous for her roles on TV show Sabrina, the Teenage Witch and Clarissa Explains It All, shared a post on Instagram on Tuesday, with a screenshot of a weather report alongside the caption: “And just like that, our family vacation is cancelled. Such a bummer but we plan to hit the @nickresortpuntacana resort another time this year.”
The weather report in the picture read: “Maria has officially made landfall on the Caribbean island of Dominica as a Category 5 hurricane.”
Fans were quick to call Hart out on the insensitivity of the post, with one writing: “I think you should be more concerned with the people that live there instead of your meaningless vacation.”
Another person added: “First, Punta Cana is the Dominican Republic, not Dominica. And it’s better to be ‘bummed’ about death, destruction there.”
However, others came forward in defence of the actress, with one supporter tweeting: “Better safe than sorry. We do not want anything to happen to you or your family.”
Hart’s post has since been deleted from both Instagram and Twitter. On Wednesday, she reposted a message from Salma Hayek, and added: “My thoughts are with all my friends in Puerto Rico and the surrounding islands that are being hit by #hurricaneMaria today.” However, she has yet to make any kind of apology for the now-deleted posts.
Hurricane Maria, with winds of up to 175 mph, wiped out power and communications throughout the island of Puerto Rico, and led to Governor Ricardo Rossello declaring a state of emergency for the island and a curfew until Saturday morning.
It made landfall as a Category 5 storm in Dominica on Monday.
It’s not the first time Hart has come under fire for a social media post. Back in 2015, she used the anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks to promote her clothing line, tweeting: “Free Shipping in honor of the victims, families & first responders of 9/11. Use the promo code ‘911’ during your online checkout at 風俗嬢ã�®ãƒ‘ワフルボディ”. She later apologized.
Online backlash after Melissa Joan Hart complains Hurricane Maria ruined vacatio
WENN.com
First posted: Thursday, September 21, 2017 04:58 PM EDT | Updated: Thursday, September 21, 2017 05:18 PM EDT
Melissa Joan Hart sparked fury when she took to social media to complain that Hurricane Maria had ruined her family vacation.
The 41-year-old actress, most famous for her roles on TV show Sabrina, the Teenage Witch and Clarissa Explains It All, shared a post on Instagram on Tuesday, with a screenshot of a weather report alongside the caption: “And just like that, our family vacation is cancelled. Such a bummer but we plan to hit the @nickresortpuntacana resort another time this year.”
The weather report in the picture read: “Maria has officially made landfall on the Caribbean island of Dominica as a Category 5 hurricane.”
Fans were quick to call Hart out on the insensitivity of the post, with one writing: “I think you should be more concerned with the people that live there instead of your meaningless vacation.”
Another person added: “First, Punta Cana is the Dominican Republic, not Dominica. And it’s better to be ‘bummed’ about death, destruction there.”
However, others came forward in defence of the actress, with one supporter tweeting: “Better safe than sorry. We do not want anything to happen to you or your family.”
Hart’s post has since been deleted from both Instagram and Twitter. On Wednesday, she reposted a message from Salma Hayek, and added: “My thoughts are with all my friends in Puerto Rico and the surrounding islands that are being hit by #hurricaneMaria today.” However, she has yet to make any kind of apology for the now-deleted posts.
Hurricane Maria, with winds of up to 175 mph, wiped out power and communications throughout the island of Puerto Rico, and led to Governor Ricardo Rossello declaring a state of emergency for the island and a curfew until Saturday morning.
It made landfall as a Category 5 storm in Dominica on Monday.
It’s not the first time Hart has come under fire for a social media post. Back in 2015, she used the anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks to promote her clothing line, tweeting: “Free Shipping in honor of the victims, families & first responders of 9/11. Use the promo code ‘911’ during your online checkout at 風俗嬢ã�®ãƒ‘ワフルボディ”. She later apologized.
Online backlash after Melissa Joan Hart complains Hurricane Maria ruined vacatio
'Hysteria is starting to spread': Humanitarian crisis grows in Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria
Danica Coto, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
First posted: Saturday, September 23, 2017 02:50 PM EDT | Updated: Saturday, September 23, 2017 03:53 PM EDT
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A humanitarian crisis grew Saturday in Puerto Rico as towns were left without fresh water, fuel, power or phone service following Hurricane Maria’s devastating passage across the island.
A group of anxious mayors arrived in the capital to meet with Gov. Ricardo Rossello to present a long list of items they urgently need. The north coastal town of Manati had run out of fuel and fresh water, Mayor Jose Sanchez Gonzalez said.
“Hysteria is starting to spread. The hospital is about to collapse. It’s at capacity,” he said, crying. “We need someone to help us immediately.”
The death toll from Maria in Puerto Rico was at least 10, including two police officers who drowned in floodwaters in the western town of Aguada. That number was expected to climb as officials from remote towns continued to check in with officials in San Juan.
Authorities in the town of Vega Alta on the north coast said they had been unable to reach an entire neighbourhood called Fatima, and were particularly worried about residents of a nursing home.
“I need to get there today,” Mayor Oscar Santiago told The Associated Press. “Not tomorrow, today.”
Rossello said Maria would clearly cost more than the last major storm to wallop the island, Hurricane George in September 1998. “This is without a doubt the biggest catastrophe in modern history for Puerto Rico,” he said.
A dam upstream of the towns of Quebradillas and Isabela in northwest Puerto Rico was cracked but had not burst by Saturday afternoon as the water continued to pour out of rain-swollen Lake Guajataca. Federal officials said Friday that 70,000 people, the number who live in the surrounding area, would have to be evacuated. But Javier Jimenez, mayor of the nearby town of San Sebastian, said he believed the number was far smaller.
Secretary of Public Affairs Ramon Rosario said about 300 families were in harm’s way.
The governor said there is “significant damage” to the dam and authorities believe it could give way at any moment. “We don’t know how long it’s going to hold. The integrity of the structure has been compromised in a significant way,” Rossello said.
The 345-yard (316-meter) dam, which was built around 1928, holds back a man-made lake covering about 2 square miles (5 square kilometres). More than 15 inches (nearly 40 centimetres) of rain from Maria fell on the surrounding mountains, swelling the reservoir.
Officials said 1,360 of the island’s 1,600 cellphone towers were downed, and 85 per cent of above-ground and underground phone and internet cables were knocked out. With roads blocked and phones dead, officials said, the situation may worsen.
“We haven’t seen the extent of the damage,” Rossello told reporters in the capital. Rossello couldn’t say when power might be restored.
Maj. Gen. Derek P. Rydholm, deputy to the chief of the Air Force Reserve, said mobile communications systems were being flown in, but acknowledged “it’s going to take a while” before people in Puerto Rico will be able to communicate with their families outside the island.
The island’s electric grid was in sorry shape long before Maria struck. The territory’s $73 billion debt crisis has left agencies like the state power company broke. It abandoned most basic maintenance in recent years, leaving the island subject to regular blackouts.
Rosello said he was distributing 250 satellite phones from FEMA to mayors across the island to re-establish contact.
At least 31 lives in all have been lost around the Caribbean, including at least 15 on hard-hit Dominica. Haiti reported three deaths; Guadeloupe, two; and the Dominican Republic, one.
Across Puerto Rico, more than 15,000 people are in shelters, including some 2,000 rescued from the north coastal town of Toa Baja.
Some of the island’s 3.4 million people planned to head to the U.S. to temporarily escape the devastation. At least in the short term, though, the soggy misery will continue: Additional rain — up to 6 inches (15 centimetres) — is expected through Saturday.
In San Juan, Neida Febus wandered around her neighbourhood with bowls of cooked rice, ground meat and avocado, offering food to the hungry. The damage was so extensive, the 64-year-old retiree said, that she didn’t think the power would be turned back on until Christmas.
“This storm crushed us from one end of the island to the other,” she said.
Hour-long lines formed at the few gas stations that reopened on Friday and anxious residents feared power could be out for weeks — or even months — and wondered how they would cope.
“I’m from here. I believe we have to step up to the task. If everyone leaves, what are we going to do? With all the pros and the cons, I will stay here,” Israel Molina, 68, who lost roofing from his San Juan mini-market to the storm, said, and then paused. “I might have a different response tomorrow.”
'Hysteria is starting to spread': Humanitarian crisis grows in Puerto Rico follo
Danica Coto, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
First posted: Saturday, September 23, 2017 02:50 PM EDT | Updated: Saturday, September 23, 2017 03:53 PM EDT
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A humanitarian crisis grew Saturday in Puerto Rico as towns were left without fresh water, fuel, power or phone service following Hurricane Maria’s devastating passage across the island.
A group of anxious mayors arrived in the capital to meet with Gov. Ricardo Rossello to present a long list of items they urgently need. The north coastal town of Manati had run out of fuel and fresh water, Mayor Jose Sanchez Gonzalez said.
“Hysteria is starting to spread. The hospital is about to collapse. It’s at capacity,” he said, crying. “We need someone to help us immediately.”
The death toll from Maria in Puerto Rico was at least 10, including two police officers who drowned in floodwaters in the western town of Aguada. That number was expected to climb as officials from remote towns continued to check in with officials in San Juan.
Authorities in the town of Vega Alta on the north coast said they had been unable to reach an entire neighbourhood called Fatima, and were particularly worried about residents of a nursing home.
“I need to get there today,” Mayor Oscar Santiago told The Associated Press. “Not tomorrow, today.”
Rossello said Maria would clearly cost more than the last major storm to wallop the island, Hurricane George in September 1998. “This is without a doubt the biggest catastrophe in modern history for Puerto Rico,” he said.
A dam upstream of the towns of Quebradillas and Isabela in northwest Puerto Rico was cracked but had not burst by Saturday afternoon as the water continued to pour out of rain-swollen Lake Guajataca. Federal officials said Friday that 70,000 people, the number who live in the surrounding area, would have to be evacuated. But Javier Jimenez, mayor of the nearby town of San Sebastian, said he believed the number was far smaller.
Secretary of Public Affairs Ramon Rosario said about 300 families were in harm’s way.
The governor said there is “significant damage” to the dam and authorities believe it could give way at any moment. “We don’t know how long it’s going to hold. The integrity of the structure has been compromised in a significant way,” Rossello said.
The 345-yard (316-meter) dam, which was built around 1928, holds back a man-made lake covering about 2 square miles (5 square kilometres). More than 15 inches (nearly 40 centimetres) of rain from Maria fell on the surrounding mountains, swelling the reservoir.
Officials said 1,360 of the island’s 1,600 cellphone towers were downed, and 85 per cent of above-ground and underground phone and internet cables were knocked out. With roads blocked and phones dead, officials said, the situation may worsen.
“We haven’t seen the extent of the damage,” Rossello told reporters in the capital. Rossello couldn’t say when power might be restored.
Maj. Gen. Derek P. Rydholm, deputy to the chief of the Air Force Reserve, said mobile communications systems were being flown in, but acknowledged “it’s going to take a while” before people in Puerto Rico will be able to communicate with their families outside the island.
The island’s electric grid was in sorry shape long before Maria struck. The territory’s $73 billion debt crisis has left agencies like the state power company broke. It abandoned most basic maintenance in recent years, leaving the island subject to regular blackouts.
Rosello said he was distributing 250 satellite phones from FEMA to mayors across the island to re-establish contact.
At least 31 lives in all have been lost around the Caribbean, including at least 15 on hard-hit Dominica. Haiti reported three deaths; Guadeloupe, two; and the Dominican Republic, one.
Across Puerto Rico, more than 15,000 people are in shelters, including some 2,000 rescued from the north coastal town of Toa Baja.
Some of the island’s 3.4 million people planned to head to the U.S. to temporarily escape the devastation. At least in the short term, though, the soggy misery will continue: Additional rain — up to 6 inches (15 centimetres) — is expected through Saturday.
In San Juan, Neida Febus wandered around her neighbourhood with bowls of cooked rice, ground meat and avocado, offering food to the hungry. The damage was so extensive, the 64-year-old retiree said, that she didn’t think the power would be turned back on until Christmas.
“This storm crushed us from one end of the island to the other,” she said.
Hour-long lines formed at the few gas stations that reopened on Friday and anxious residents feared power could be out for weeks — or even months — and wondered how they would cope.
“I’m from here. I believe we have to step up to the task. If everyone leaves, what are we going to do? With all the pros and the cons, I will stay here,” Israel Molina, 68, who lost roofing from his San Juan mini-market to the storm, said, and then paused. “I might have a different response tomorrow.”
'Hysteria is starting to spread': Humanitarian crisis grows in Puerto Rico follo
Puerto Rico: 1,400 died from hurricane but toll stands at 64 for now
Associated Press
Published:
August 9, 2018
Updated:
August 9, 2018 2:48 PM EDT
In this June 1, 2018 file photo, a child shines a light on hundreds of shoes at a memorial for those killed by Hurricane Maria, in front of the Puerto Rico Capitol in San Juan. /, File) ORG XMIT: XLAT115Ramon Espinosa / AP Photo
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Puerto Rico is estimating in a report to Congress that Hurricane Maria killed more than 1,400 people, though an island official said Thursday that the confirmed toll remains frozen at 64 pending a scientific review due out soon.
The government, relying on updated statistics it first reported in June, said in a report to Congress detailing a $139 billion reconstruction plan that there were 1,427 more deaths from September to December 2017 than the average for the same time period over the previous four years.
The territory’s government said that the additional deaths resulted from the effects of a storm that led to a “cascading failures” in infrastructure across the island of 3.3 million people.
The administration of Gov. Ricardo Rossello stopped updating its official death toll months ago and ordered an investigation amid reports that the number was substantially undercounted. Public Safety Department Secretary Hector Pesquera said the new total will reflect the findings of the investigation, which is expected in the coming weeks.
The figure of more than 1,400, Pesquera said, “is simple math” based on the number of excess deaths. “This is not the official number of deaths attributable to Hurricane Maria,” he said.
Hurricane Maria, which came just two weeks after Hurricane Irma passed near enough to cause damage to the island, knocked out power and water across Puerto Rico and caused widespread flooding that left many sick and elderly people unable to get medical treatment.
“The hurricanes’ devastating effects on people’s health and safety cannot be overstated,” the government said in the report seeking assistance from Congress to help rebuild an island that was already struggling from a deep economic crisis at the time of the storm.
In the weeks after the storm, Puerto Rican officials said the storm directly caused 64 deaths, many in landslides or flooding. But they have also said that more people likely died due to indirect effects of the powerful storm. “We always anticipated that this number would increase as more official studies were conducted,” Pesquera said.
The government commissioned an independent epidemiological study by George Washington University and the Milken Institute of Public Health that is due in coming weeks.
The use of the higher death toll in the report to Congress was first reported Thursday by The New York Times.
Most of the deaths occurred not in the initial storm on Sept. 20, but in the ensuing days and weeks when the island-wide electricity outage and roads blocked by downed power lines and other debris made it difficult to move around and emergency services were stretched beyond their capabilities.
Government agencies have used various methods to count storm deaths over the years, with authorities generally trying to sort them into direct and indirect to include people whose deaths are tied to a natural disaster without necessarily being obviously caused by it.
New York Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez, who was born in Puerto Rico, has called for legislation that would establish federal standards for death counts after disaster. “It has been tragically clear for some time that the devastation from Irma and Maria was many magnitudes worse than the official death toll suggested,” she said.
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Associated Press
Published:
August 9, 2018
Updated:
August 9, 2018 2:48 PM EDT
In this June 1, 2018 file photo, a child shines a light on hundreds of shoes at a memorial for those killed by Hurricane Maria, in front of the Puerto Rico Capitol in San Juan. /, File) ORG XMIT: XLAT115Ramon Espinosa / AP Photo
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Puerto Rico is estimating in a report to Congress that Hurricane Maria killed more than 1,400 people, though an island official said Thursday that the confirmed toll remains frozen at 64 pending a scientific review due out soon.
The government, relying on updated statistics it first reported in June, said in a report to Congress detailing a $139 billion reconstruction plan that there were 1,427 more deaths from September to December 2017 than the average for the same time period over the previous four years.
The territory’s government said that the additional deaths resulted from the effects of a storm that led to a “cascading failures” in infrastructure across the island of 3.3 million people.
The administration of Gov. Ricardo Rossello stopped updating its official death toll months ago and ordered an investigation amid reports that the number was substantially undercounted. Public Safety Department Secretary Hector Pesquera said the new total will reflect the findings of the investigation, which is expected in the coming weeks.
The figure of more than 1,400, Pesquera said, “is simple math” based on the number of excess deaths. “This is not the official number of deaths attributable to Hurricane Maria,” he said.
Hurricane Maria, which came just two weeks after Hurricane Irma passed near enough to cause damage to the island, knocked out power and water across Puerto Rico and caused widespread flooding that left many sick and elderly people unable to get medical treatment.
“The hurricanes’ devastating effects on people’s health and safety cannot be overstated,” the government said in the report seeking assistance from Congress to help rebuild an island that was already struggling from a deep economic crisis at the time of the storm.
In the weeks after the storm, Puerto Rican officials said the storm directly caused 64 deaths, many in landslides or flooding. But they have also said that more people likely died due to indirect effects of the powerful storm. “We always anticipated that this number would increase as more official studies were conducted,” Pesquera said.
The government commissioned an independent epidemiological study by George Washington University and the Milken Institute of Public Health that is due in coming weeks.
The use of the higher death toll in the report to Congress was first reported Thursday by The New York Times.
Most of the deaths occurred not in the initial storm on Sept. 20, but in the ensuing days and weeks when the island-wide electricity outage and roads blocked by downed power lines and other debris made it difficult to move around and emergency services were stretched beyond their capabilities.
Government agencies have used various methods to count storm deaths over the years, with authorities generally trying to sort them into direct and indirect to include people whose deaths are tied to a natural disaster without necessarily being obviously caused by it.
New York Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez, who was born in Puerto Rico, has called for legislation that would establish federal standards for death counts after disaster. “It has been tragically clear for some time that the devastation from Irma and Maria was many magnitudes worse than the official death toll suggested,” she said.
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