Articles filed under Weather
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What does it take to get people to flee a storm?Nov 14, 2012 4:57 pm - NEW YORK — Despite days of dire forecasts and explicit warnings, hundreds of thousands of people in New York and New Jersey ignored mandatory evacuation orders as Supers...
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Global warming talk heats up, revisits carbon taxNov 13, 2012 6:35 pm - WASHINGTON — Climate change is suddenly a hot topic again. The issue is resurfacing in talks about a once radical idea: a possible carbon tax. On Tuesday, a conservative...
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Slick lanes Monday night lead to fatal crash on Elgin-O'HareNov 12, 2012 7:00 pm - This season's first snowfall — a rainy, snowy mix — quickly turned to ice Monday evening creating chaos on area roadways and led to one fatal traffic accident overnight....
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Images: Nor’easter hits the East CoastNov 08, 2012 8:50 am - ...
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New storm bears down on Sandy-battered NYC, NJNov 07, 2012 5:31 am - NEW YORK — A nor’easter blustered into New York and New Jersey on Wednesday with rain and wet snow, plunging homes right back into darkness, stopping commuter trains aga...
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Sandy’s destruction no match for KatrinaNov 07, 2012 4:36 am - ATLANTA — In the Rockaways section of the New York borough of Queens, residents are comparing their battered community to New Orleans’s Ninth Ward, which was all but des...
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Airlines take no chances, halt NYC-area flights ahead of stormNov 07, 2012 4:13 am - NEW YORK — Major airlines are scrapping flights in and out of the New York area ahead of the second significant storm in little more than a week. United and American pl...
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Good news for coast: Nor’easter to weakenNov 06, 2012 4:11 pm - NEW YORK — Weather experts had good news for beleaguered northeast coastal residents Tuesday: A new storm that threatened to complicate Hurricane Sandy cleanup efforts o...
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Elderly face challenges coping with Sandy’s impactNov 04, 2012 11:21 am - FARMINGDALE, N.Y. — Eileen James sits by the window when the sun is out, wears gloves to bed and hasn’t had a hot meal in a week. Like many elderly people in the New Yor...
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Tragedies can’t break heroic NY community’s spiritNov 04, 2012 11:21 am - NEW YORK — Tragedy has too often visited one Queens community, but residents drew a line in the sand with Superstorm Sandy, rallying with a surfboard and kayaks at the s...