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After Sally: Rescue, recovery and a wary eye on rivers

By JAY REEVES, ANGIE WANG and JEFF MARTIN
Sep 17, 2020 11:02 AM - Rivers swollen by Hurricane Sally's rains threatened more misery for parts of the Florida Panhandle and south Alabama on Thursday, as the storm's remnants continued to dump heavy rains inland that spread the threat of flooding to Georgia and the Carolinas.
Hurricane Sally unleashes flooding along the Gulf Coast

By JAY REEVES, ANGIE WANG and JEFF MARTIN
Sep 16, 2020 2:54 PM - Hurricane Sally lumbered ashore near the Florida-Alabama line Wednesday with 105 mph winds and rain measured in feet, not inches, swamping homes and trapping people in high water as it crept inland for what could be a long, slow and disastrous drenching across the Deep South.
'Huge rainmaker': Hurricane Sally threatens historic floods

By JAY REEVES and ANGIE WANG
Sep 15, 2020 3:05 PM - Hurricane Sally drifted in a slow crawl Tuesday toward the northern Gulf Coast, threatening dangerous storm surge and relentless rainfall that forecasters warned could trigger historic flooding as the storm was expected to hover in the area long after coming ashore.
Hurricane Sally threatens Gulf Coast with a slow drenching

By JANET MCCONNAUGHEY and REBECCA SANTANA
Sep 14, 2020 2:59 PM - Hurricane Sally, one of a record-tying five storms churning simultaneously in the Atlantic, closed in on the Louisiana-Mississippi coast Monday with rapidly strengthening winds of at least 90 mph (145 kph) and the potential for up to 2 feet (0.6 meters) of rain that could bring severe flooding.
From heat to snow: Rocky Mountains see 60-degree plunge, high winds

Sep 8, 2020 2:01 PM - Summer came to an abrupt halt in parts of the Rocky Mountains on Tuesday as temperatures reaching into the 90s plunged by around 60 degrees in less than 24 hours, with a powerful surge of cold air from Canada unleashing snow and damaging winds in several states.
Laura carves destructive path through Louisiana; 4 dead

By GERALD HERBERT, MELINDA DESLATTE and STACEY PLAISANCE
Aug 27, 2020 2:56 PM - One of the strongest hurricanes ever to strike the U.S. pounded the Gulf Coast on Thursday, shearing off roofs and killing a least four people, as Laura barreled across Louisiana and maintained ferocious strength while carving a destructive path hundreds of miles inland.
Laura strengthens into 'extremely dangerous' Category 4

By MELINDA DESLATTE, JEFF MARTIN and STACEY PLAISANCE
Aug 26, 2020 2:08 PM - Laura strengthened Wednesday into a menacing Category 4 hurricane, raising fears of a 20-foot storm surge that forecasters said would be "unsurvivable" and capable of sinking entire communities. Authorities implored coastal residents of Texas and Louisiana to evacuate and worried that not enough had fled.
Hundreds of thousands ordered to flee coast ahead of Laura

By REBECCA SANTANA and JEFF MARTIN
Aug 25, 2020 2:57 PM - More than half a million people were ordered to evacuate the Gulf Coast on Tuesday as Laura strengthened into a hurricane that forecasters said could slam Texas and Louisiana with ferocious winds, heavy flooding and the power to push seawater miles inland.
Constable: Are the End Times here? Well, no, says biblical scholar

By Burt Constable
Aug 25, 2020 6:15 AM - A fridge-sized asteroid hurtles toward Earth as we cope with a pandemic, horrific storms, wildfires, racial horrors, violence and political chaos. Some suggest these are the End Times. But a Lombard native and Biblical scholar says, "Not so fast."
Weather Service confirms 14 tornadoes hit northern Illinois

Associated Press
Aug 14, 2020 10:08 AM - Survey teams with the National Weather Service have confirmed that 14 tornadoes touched down Monday in northern Illinois when a rare storm known as a derecho swept parts of the Midwest.

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