These things you mentioned do go off you know. The electrical universe is a reality. You pay a power bill don't you? Or do you live off the great tit in Ahtowahhhhh?
Hurricane Irma is coming
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These things you mentioned do go off you know. The electrical universe is a reality. You pay a power bill don't you? Or do you live off the great tit in Ahtowahhhhh?
Funny how this kind of disaster crap brings people together
I think we should move all the floridians to a drier climate
like iraq or syria or something
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"This is surreal! Winds are sucking the water out of Tampa Bay!"
Not winds. A hurricane is a super low pressure system. The surface of the water beneath it actually rises up to five meters. Of course, this water has to come from somewhere, hence Tampa Bay loses its water. But don't worry, it will come back in a few hours.
These things you mentioned do go off you know. The electrical universe is a reality. You pay a power bill don't you? Or do you live off the great tit in Ahtowahhhhh?
Ah Yes, Ottawa's greatest hits
I have a renter or two that collects evry month...
It's interesting that the weather and earth quake prediction guys who go after the solar charge model and its historical patterns have very high accuracy marks
https://weatheraction.wordpress.com/
https://weatheraction.wordpress.com/2017/01/03/piers-corbyns-look-ahead-for-2017/
...and then there is plain old gravity:
More Evidence That the Moon Contributes to Earthquakes
Some of the largest quakes in recent memory happened when the Earth’s crust was under the highest tidal stress.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/09/moon-tide-earthquakes/499637/
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Put it in a better way:
earthquakes, volcanoes, tide surges in addition to Global Warming are because:
the earth core becoming colder than before, the earth getting somewhat nearer to the sun ..
which lead to changes in the atmosphere and the rest of manifestations.
In the Last Days:
Therefore, earthquakes are expected to increase in number and severity, the Global Warming to increase more and more (gradually of course.)
http://www.quran-ayat.com/universe/new_page_4.htm#Destruction_and_Dispersion_of_Celestial_Objects_
<quran-ayat.com/universe/new_page_4.htm#Destruction_and_Dispersion_of_Celestial_Objects_>
Are you a scientist? Do you have any real documentation other than your Book of Satanic Verses? :lol:
You truly are a ignorant, religious zealot. When the giant Horned Pooka comes for you, you'll be screaming out Satan's name, begging for help, but none will arrive.
Of course, the zealot in you will disagree. That's what demonstrates your ignorance. :lol: Do something positive to help your neighbours - look for unexploded munitions.
You truly are a ignorant, religious zealot. When the giant Horned Pooka comes for you, you'll be screaming out Satan's name, begging for help, but none will arrive.
Of course, the zealot in you will disagree. That's what demonstrates your ignorance. :lol: Do something positive to help your neighbours - look for unexploded munitions.
Hydro One crews to help Florida in wake of Irma
The Canadian Press
First posted: Monday, September 11, 2017 11:38 AM EDT | Updated: Monday, September 11, 2017 11:41 AM EDT
Hydro One is sending crews to Florida in an effort to support the millions of people left without power in the wake of Hurricane Irma.
The operator of Ontario’s largest electricity distribution system says it’s getting ready to send 175 employees south.
Nearly 4.5 million homes and businesses lost power in the storm that made landfall in the U.S. on Sunday, and utility officials say it will take weeks to restore electricity to everyone.
Hydro One says crews are expected to start crossing the border into the U.S. at about 6 p.m. Monday, and should reach the affected areas by Wednesday afternoon.
It says it has “reciprocal agreements” in place across North America to provide assistance during significant power outages.
Hydro One crews to help Florida in wake of Irma | Ontario | News | Toronto Sun
The Canadian Press
First posted: Monday, September 11, 2017 11:38 AM EDT | Updated: Monday, September 11, 2017 11:41 AM EDT
Hydro One is sending crews to Florida in an effort to support the millions of people left without power in the wake of Hurricane Irma.
The operator of Ontario’s largest electricity distribution system says it’s getting ready to send 175 employees south.
Nearly 4.5 million homes and businesses lost power in the storm that made landfall in the U.S. on Sunday, and utility officials say it will take weeks to restore electricity to everyone.
Hydro One says crews are expected to start crossing the border into the U.S. at about 6 p.m. Monday, and should reach the affected areas by Wednesday afternoon.
It says it has “reciprocal agreements” in place across North America to provide assistance during significant power outages.
Hydro One crews to help Florida in wake of Irma | Ontario | News | Toronto Sun
Hurricane Irma: Stranded manatees helped after Irma sucks water from Tampa bays
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
First posted: Monday, September 11, 2017 11:09 AM EDT | Updated: Monday, September 11, 2017 11:22 AM EDT
TAMPA, Fla. — Two manatees were stranded after Hurricane Irma sucked water out of Sarasota Bay, in Florida’s Manatee County.
Several people posted photos Sunday of the mammals on Facebook, hoping rescue workers or wildlife officials would respond. Michael Sechler posted that the animals were far too massive to be lifted, so the rescuers gave them water.
Marcelo Clavijo posted that a group of people eventually loaded the manatees onto tarps and were able to drag them to deeper water.
Irma’s centre was about 25 miles (40 kilometres) northeast of the heavily populated Tampa-St. Petersburg area early Monday, though in a much-weakened state. While it arrived in Florida a Category 4 hurricane, it was down to a Category 1 with winds of 85 mph (135 kph).
Continued weakening was forecast and the U.S. National Hurricane Center said Irma was expected to become a tropical storm over northern Florida or southern Georgia later in the day Monday.
Meanwhile, more than 160,000 people waited in shelters statewide.
This photo provided by Michael Sechler shows a stranded manatee in Manatee County, Fla., Sunday, Sept. 10, 2017. The mammal was stranded after waters receded from the Florida bay as Hurricane Irma approached. (Michael Sechler via AP)
http://facebook.com/marcelo.clavijo.3/videos/1644122748973280
Hurricane Irma: Stranded manatees helped after Irma sucks water from Tampa bays
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
First posted: Monday, September 11, 2017 11:09 AM EDT | Updated: Monday, September 11, 2017 11:22 AM EDT
TAMPA, Fla. — Two manatees were stranded after Hurricane Irma sucked water out of Sarasota Bay, in Florida’s Manatee County.
Several people posted photos Sunday of the mammals on Facebook, hoping rescue workers or wildlife officials would respond. Michael Sechler posted that the animals were far too massive to be lifted, so the rescuers gave them water.
Marcelo Clavijo posted that a group of people eventually loaded the manatees onto tarps and were able to drag them to deeper water.
Irma’s centre was about 25 miles (40 kilometres) northeast of the heavily populated Tampa-St. Petersburg area early Monday, though in a much-weakened state. While it arrived in Florida a Category 4 hurricane, it was down to a Category 1 with winds of 85 mph (135 kph).
Continued weakening was forecast and the U.S. National Hurricane Center said Irma was expected to become a tropical storm over northern Florida or southern Georgia later in the day Monday.
Meanwhile, more than 160,000 people waited in shelters statewide.
This photo provided by Michael Sechler shows a stranded manatee in Manatee County, Fla., Sunday, Sept. 10, 2017. The mammal was stranded after waters receded from the Florida bay as Hurricane Irma approached. (Michael Sechler via AP)
http://facebook.com/marcelo.clavijo.3/videos/1644122748973280
Hurricane Irma: Stranded manatees helped after Irma sucks water from Tampa bays
Don't you just hate these f**king Bible Thumpers? They can't seem to get it through their thick heads that normal people aren't interested in this sh*t? All a person has to know to survive in society is the Golden Rule........................."Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" (and secondly mind your own business)
there's some left you green nutz haven't bombed yet?
Hurricane Irma: Over 6M people watched fake livestream of storm that was actually shot in Canada
Hurricane Irma: Over 6M people watched fake livestream of storm that was actually shot in Canada | Globalnews.ca
what some people won't do for clicks
Hurricane Irma: Over 6M people watched fake livestream of storm that was actually shot in Canada
Hurricane Irma: Over 6M people watched fake livestream of storm that was actually shot in Canada | Globalnews.ca
what some people won't do for clicks
That's two.Don't you just hate these f**king Bible Thumpers? They can't seem to get it through their thick heads that normal people aren't interested in this sh*t? All a person has to know to survive in society is the Golden Rule........................."Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" (and secondly mind your own business)
I like the Lead Rule: Do unto others. . . first.
yup, long as the other guy ain't playin by the same rules you'll be fine
A $150 Billion Misfire: How Forecasters Got Irma Damage So Wrong
“We got very lucky,” said Jeff Masters, co-founder of Weather Underground in Ann Arbor, Michigan. If Irma had passed 20 miles west of Marco Island instead of striking it on Sunday, “the damage would have been astronomical.” A track like that would have placed the powerful, eastern eye wall of Irma on Florida’s Gulf Coast.
By one estimate, the total cost dropped to about $50 billion Monday from $200 billion over the weekend. The state escaped the worst because Irma’s powerful eye shifted westward, away from the biggest population center of sprawling Miami-Dade County.
The credit goes to the Bermuda High, which acts like a sort of traffic cop for the tropical North Atlantic Ocean. The circular system hovering over Bermuda jostled Irma onto northern Cuba Saturday, where being over land sapped it of some power, and then around the tip of the Florida peninsula, cutting down on storm surge damage on both coasts of the state.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...fire-how-forecasters-got-irma-damage-so-wrong
A $150 Billion Misfire: How Forecasters Got Irma Damage So Wrong
“We got very lucky,” said Jeff Masters, co-founder of Weather Underground in Ann Arbor, Michigan. If Irma had passed 20 miles west of Marco Island instead of striking it on Sunday, “the damage would have been astronomical.” A track like that would have placed the powerful, eastern eye wall of Irma on Florida’s Gulf Coast.
By one estimate, the total cost dropped to about $50 billion Monday from $200 billion over the weekend. The state escaped the worst because Irma’s powerful eye shifted westward, away from the biggest population center of sprawling Miami-Dade County.
The credit goes to the Bermuda High, which acts like a sort of traffic cop for the tropical North Atlantic Ocean. The circular system hovering over Bermuda jostled Irma onto northern Cuba Saturday, where being over land sapped it of some power, and then around the tip of the Florida peninsula, cutting down on storm surge damage on both coasts of the state.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...fire-how-forecasters-got-irma-damage-so-wrong
Faith groups provide the bulk of disaster recovery, in coordination with FEMA
https://amp.tallahassee.com/amp/651007001
Where's BLM or Antifa
https://amp.tallahassee.com/amp/651007001
Where's BLM or Antifa
Video: Chainsaw-wielding nun takes Hurricane Irma cleanup into her own hands
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
First posted: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 07:30 AM EDT | Updated: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 10:00 AM EDT
MIAMI — A Florida nun is pitching in on the cleanup efforts following Hurricane Irma by taking a chain saw to downed trees while dressed in her full habit.
Miami-Dade police posted video of Sister Margaret Ann at work on social media taken by an off-duty officer who came across her.
Police say the nun was cutting trees to clear the roadways around Archbishop Coleman Carrol High School near Miami. Sister Margaret Ann is the school’s principal, according to its website.
Police say “acts of kindness” like Sister Margaret Ann’s remind residents that they’re all part of the same community. The department added in its post, “Thank you Sister and all of our neighbours that are working together to get through this!”
http://facebook.com/miamidadepd/posts/10155119825049926
http://facebook.com/miamidadepd/videos/10155119819624926
Video: Chainsaw-wielding nun takes Hurricane Irma cleanup into her own hands | H
Hurricane Irma: 8 dead in Fla. nursing home that lost power
Tim Reynolds and Terry Spencer, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
First posted: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 10:09 AM EDT | Updated: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 02:56 PM EDT
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — Eight patients at a sweltering nursing home died after Hurricane Irma knocked out the air conditioning, raising fears Wednesday about the safety of Florida’s 4 million senior citizens amid power outages that could last for days.
Hollywood Police Chief Tom Sanchez said investigators believe the deaths at the Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills were heat-related, and added: “The building has been sealed off and we are conducting a criminal investigation.”
Gov. Rick Scott called on Florida emergency workers to immediately check on all nursing homes to make sure patients are safe, and he vowed to punish anyone found culpable in the deaths.
“This situation is unfathomable,” he said.
The home said in a statement that the hurricane had knocked out a transformer that powered the AC.
The five women and three men ranged in age from 70 to 99.
Exactly how the deaths happened was under investigation, with Sanchez saying authorities have not ruled anything out, including carbon monoxide poisoning from generators. He also said investigators will look into how many windows were open.
Across the street from the stifling nursing home sat a fully air-conditioned hospital, Memorial Regional.
Broward County said the nursing home had alerted the county emergency operations centre on Tuesday that it had lost power, but when asked if it had any medical needs or emergencies, it did not request help.
“It’s a sad state of affairs,” the police chief said. “We all have elderly people in facilities, and we all know we depend on those people in those facilities to care for a vulnerable elderly population.”
When asked why the patients hadn’t been taken across the street to Memorial Regional hospital when temperatures became dangerous, Hollywood city spokeswoman Rayelin Storey said, “We can’t get inside the heads of the staff and the administrators of this facility.”
The deaths came as people trying to put their lives back together in hurricane-stricken Florida and beyond confronted a multitude of new hazards in the storm’s aftermath, including tree-clearing accidents and lethal generator fumes.
Not counting the nursing home deaths, at least 17 people in Florida have died under Irma-related circumstances, and six more in South Carolina and Georgia, many of them well after the storm had passed. The death toll across the Caribbean stood at 38.
At least six people died of apparent carbon monoxide poisoning from generators in Florida. A Tampa man died after the chain saw he was using to remove trees recoiled and cut his carotid artery.
In Hollywood, after responding to three early morning calls Wednesday about patients in distress, firefighters went through the facility, found three people dead and evacuated more than 150 patients to hospitals, many on stretchers or in wheelchairs, authorities said. By the afternoon, five more had died.
Patients were treated for dehydration, breathing difficulties and other heat-related ills, authorities said.
Nursing homes in Florida are required by state and federal law to file an emergency plan that includes evacuation plans for residents. County officials released documents showing that the Hollywood facility was in compliance with that regulation and that it held a hurricane drill with its staff in October.
Calls to the owner and other officials at the Hollywood home were not immediately returned, but the facility’s administrator, Jorge Carballo, said in a statement that it was “co-operating fully with relevant authorities to investigate the circumstances that led to this unfortunate and tragic outcome.”
Through a representative, Carballo told the SunSentinel newspaper that the home has a backup generator but that it does not power the air conditioning.
The nursing home was bought at a bankruptcy auction two years ago after its previous owner went to prison for Medicare fraud, according to news reports at the time of the sale.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which regulates nursing homes, gives the Hollywood centre a below-average rating, two stars on its five-star scale. But the most recent state inspection reports showed no deficiencies in the area of emergency plans.
Broward County Medical Examiner Dr. Craig Mallak said after receiving some of the bodies for autopsies that the victims had been in poor health, and “it’s going to be tough to tell how much was the heat and how much of it was they were sick already.”
Florida, long one of America’s top retirement destinations, has the highest proportion of people 65 and older of any state — 1 in 5 of its 20 million residents. As of 2016, Florida had about 680 nursing homes.
The number of people without electricity in the steamy late-summer heat was down to 6.8 million. Utility officials warned it could take over a week for power to be fully restored. The number of people in shelters fell to under 13,000.
Elsewhere around the state, a Coral Gables apartment building was evacuated after authorities determined a lack of power made it unsafe for elderly tenants.
And at the huge, 15,000-resident Century Village retirement community in Pembroke Pines, more than half the residential buildings had no power Wednesday afternoon. Rescue crews went door to door in the 94-degree heat to check on people and hand out water, ice and meals.
“These people are basically prisoners in their own homes,” said Pembroke Pines City Manager Charlie Dodge. “That’s why we are camped out there and doing whatever we can to assist them in this process. And we’re not leaving.”
Florida Sen. Bill Nelson called the deaths in Hollywood “an inexcusable tragedy” and demanded a federal investigation.
“We need to make sure we’re doing everything we can to keep our seniors safe during this difficult time,” he said.
In the battered Florida Keys, meanwhile, county officials pushed back against a preliminary estimate from the Federal Emergency Management Agency that 25 per cent of all homes in the Keys were destroyed and nearly all the rest were heavily damaged.
“Things look real damaged from the air, but when you clear the trees and all the debris, it’s not much damage to the houses,” said Monroe County Commissioner Heather Carruthers.
The Keys felt Irma’s full fury when the hurricane roared in on Sunday with 130 mph (209 kph) winds. But the extent of the damage has been an unanswered question for days because some places have been unreachable.
President Donald Trump plans to visit Naples, on Florida’s hard-hit southwestern coast, on Thursday.
At the Hollywood nursing home, Jean Lindor, a kitchen worker, said through a Haitian Creole translator that the air conditioner had not been working since the storm and it had been hot inside.
Paulburn Bogle, a member of the housekeeping staff, said the place had been hot but manageable the past few days. The staff used fans, put cold towels and ice on patients and gave them cold drinks, he said.
Flora Mitchell arrived at the home trying to learn the fate of her 58-year-old sister, a stroke patient. She said she last heard from her sister two days earlier and learned the air conditioning was not working.
“We need to know what happened to her,” she said. “They haven’t told us anything.”
Associated Press writers Jason Dearen on Summerland Key; Brendan Farrington, Gary Fineout and Joe Reedy in Tallahassee; Jay Reeves in Immokalee; Terrance Harris in Orlando; Claire Galofaro in Jacksonville; and Jennifer Kay, Freida Frisaro, Curt Anderson and David Fischer in Miami contributed to this report.
Hurricane Irma: 8 dead in Fla. nursing home that lost power | Hurricane Irma | W
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
First posted: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 07:30 AM EDT | Updated: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 10:00 AM EDT
MIAMI — A Florida nun is pitching in on the cleanup efforts following Hurricane Irma by taking a chain saw to downed trees while dressed in her full habit.
Miami-Dade police posted video of Sister Margaret Ann at work on social media taken by an off-duty officer who came across her.
Police say the nun was cutting trees to clear the roadways around Archbishop Coleman Carrol High School near Miami. Sister Margaret Ann is the school’s principal, according to its website.
Police say “acts of kindness” like Sister Margaret Ann’s remind residents that they’re all part of the same community. The department added in its post, “Thank you Sister and all of our neighbours that are working together to get through this!”
http://facebook.com/miamidadepd/posts/10155119825049926
http://facebook.com/miamidadepd/videos/10155119819624926
Video: Chainsaw-wielding nun takes Hurricane Irma cleanup into her own hands | H
Hurricane Irma: 8 dead in Fla. nursing home that lost power
Tim Reynolds and Terry Spencer, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
First posted: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 10:09 AM EDT | Updated: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 02:56 PM EDT
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — Eight patients at a sweltering nursing home died after Hurricane Irma knocked out the air conditioning, raising fears Wednesday about the safety of Florida’s 4 million senior citizens amid power outages that could last for days.
Hollywood Police Chief Tom Sanchez said investigators believe the deaths at the Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills were heat-related, and added: “The building has been sealed off and we are conducting a criminal investigation.”
Gov. Rick Scott called on Florida emergency workers to immediately check on all nursing homes to make sure patients are safe, and he vowed to punish anyone found culpable in the deaths.
“This situation is unfathomable,” he said.
The home said in a statement that the hurricane had knocked out a transformer that powered the AC.
The five women and three men ranged in age from 70 to 99.
Exactly how the deaths happened was under investigation, with Sanchez saying authorities have not ruled anything out, including carbon monoxide poisoning from generators. He also said investigators will look into how many windows were open.
Across the street from the stifling nursing home sat a fully air-conditioned hospital, Memorial Regional.
Broward County said the nursing home had alerted the county emergency operations centre on Tuesday that it had lost power, but when asked if it had any medical needs or emergencies, it did not request help.
“It’s a sad state of affairs,” the police chief said. “We all have elderly people in facilities, and we all know we depend on those people in those facilities to care for a vulnerable elderly population.”
When asked why the patients hadn’t been taken across the street to Memorial Regional hospital when temperatures became dangerous, Hollywood city spokeswoman Rayelin Storey said, “We can’t get inside the heads of the staff and the administrators of this facility.”
The deaths came as people trying to put their lives back together in hurricane-stricken Florida and beyond confronted a multitude of new hazards in the storm’s aftermath, including tree-clearing accidents and lethal generator fumes.
Not counting the nursing home deaths, at least 17 people in Florida have died under Irma-related circumstances, and six more in South Carolina and Georgia, many of them well after the storm had passed. The death toll across the Caribbean stood at 38.
At least six people died of apparent carbon monoxide poisoning from generators in Florida. A Tampa man died after the chain saw he was using to remove trees recoiled and cut his carotid artery.
In Hollywood, after responding to three early morning calls Wednesday about patients in distress, firefighters went through the facility, found three people dead and evacuated more than 150 patients to hospitals, many on stretchers or in wheelchairs, authorities said. By the afternoon, five more had died.
Patients were treated for dehydration, breathing difficulties and other heat-related ills, authorities said.
Nursing homes in Florida are required by state and federal law to file an emergency plan that includes evacuation plans for residents. County officials released documents showing that the Hollywood facility was in compliance with that regulation and that it held a hurricane drill with its staff in October.
Calls to the owner and other officials at the Hollywood home were not immediately returned, but the facility’s administrator, Jorge Carballo, said in a statement that it was “co-operating fully with relevant authorities to investigate the circumstances that led to this unfortunate and tragic outcome.”
Through a representative, Carballo told the SunSentinel newspaper that the home has a backup generator but that it does not power the air conditioning.
The nursing home was bought at a bankruptcy auction two years ago after its previous owner went to prison for Medicare fraud, according to news reports at the time of the sale.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which regulates nursing homes, gives the Hollywood centre a below-average rating, two stars on its five-star scale. But the most recent state inspection reports showed no deficiencies in the area of emergency plans.
Broward County Medical Examiner Dr. Craig Mallak said after receiving some of the bodies for autopsies that the victims had been in poor health, and “it’s going to be tough to tell how much was the heat and how much of it was they were sick already.”
Florida, long one of America’s top retirement destinations, has the highest proportion of people 65 and older of any state — 1 in 5 of its 20 million residents. As of 2016, Florida had about 680 nursing homes.
The number of people without electricity in the steamy late-summer heat was down to 6.8 million. Utility officials warned it could take over a week for power to be fully restored. The number of people in shelters fell to under 13,000.
Elsewhere around the state, a Coral Gables apartment building was evacuated after authorities determined a lack of power made it unsafe for elderly tenants.
And at the huge, 15,000-resident Century Village retirement community in Pembroke Pines, more than half the residential buildings had no power Wednesday afternoon. Rescue crews went door to door in the 94-degree heat to check on people and hand out water, ice and meals.
“These people are basically prisoners in their own homes,” said Pembroke Pines City Manager Charlie Dodge. “That’s why we are camped out there and doing whatever we can to assist them in this process. And we’re not leaving.”
Florida Sen. Bill Nelson called the deaths in Hollywood “an inexcusable tragedy” and demanded a federal investigation.
“We need to make sure we’re doing everything we can to keep our seniors safe during this difficult time,” he said.
In the battered Florida Keys, meanwhile, county officials pushed back against a preliminary estimate from the Federal Emergency Management Agency that 25 per cent of all homes in the Keys were destroyed and nearly all the rest were heavily damaged.
“Things look real damaged from the air, but when you clear the trees and all the debris, it’s not much damage to the houses,” said Monroe County Commissioner Heather Carruthers.
The Keys felt Irma’s full fury when the hurricane roared in on Sunday with 130 mph (209 kph) winds. But the extent of the damage has been an unanswered question for days because some places have been unreachable.
President Donald Trump plans to visit Naples, on Florida’s hard-hit southwestern coast, on Thursday.
At the Hollywood nursing home, Jean Lindor, a kitchen worker, said through a Haitian Creole translator that the air conditioner had not been working since the storm and it had been hot inside.
Paulburn Bogle, a member of the housekeeping staff, said the place had been hot but manageable the past few days. The staff used fans, put cold towels and ice on patients and gave them cold drinks, he said.
Flora Mitchell arrived at the home trying to learn the fate of her 58-year-old sister, a stroke patient. She said she last heard from her sister two days earlier and learned the air conditioning was not working.
“We need to know what happened to her,” she said. “They haven’t told us anything.”
Associated Press writers Jason Dearen on Summerland Key; Brendan Farrington, Gary Fineout and Joe Reedy in Tallahassee; Jay Reeves in Immokalee; Terrance Harris in Orlando; Claire Galofaro in Jacksonville; and Jennifer Kay, Freida Frisaro, Curt Anderson and David Fischer in Miami contributed to this report.
Hurricane Irma: 8 dead in Fla. nursing home that lost power | Hurricane Irma | W
Hurricane Irma: Car with body found when canal lowered for Irma
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
First posted: Thursday, September 14, 2017 01:00 PM EDT | Updated: Thursday, September 14, 2017 01:08 PM EDT
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — A vehicle with a dead body inside that had been submerged in a Florida canal was discovered when water levels were lowered in preparation for Hurricane Irma’s heavy rains.
The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office said in an email that the vehicle was found Saturday in a canal in the southern part of the county.
The vehicle was removed and authorities say an autopsy is planned to determine how the person died.
The person’s identity was not immediately known. It’s also not clear how long the vehicle had been in the canal.
Hurricane Irma: Car with body found when canal lowered for Irma | World | News |
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
First posted: Thursday, September 14, 2017 01:00 PM EDT | Updated: Thursday, September 14, 2017 01:08 PM EDT
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — A vehicle with a dead body inside that had been submerged in a Florida canal was discovered when water levels were lowered in preparation for Hurricane Irma’s heavy rains.
The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office said in an email that the vehicle was found Saturday in a canal in the southern part of the county.
The vehicle was removed and authorities say an autopsy is planned to determine how the person died.
The person’s identity was not immediately known. It’s also not clear how long the vehicle had been in the canal.
Hurricane Irma: Car with body found when canal lowered for Irma | World | News |