Articles filed under Weather
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Tornado batters homes in FloridaSep 21, 2007 11:00 pm - EUSTIS, Fla. -- Severe weather, including a tornado, damaged about 50 homes in central Florida, before the system became a tropical depression Friday and had parts of th...
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Global warming may kill off polar bearsSep 07, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Two-thirds of the world's polar bears will be killed off by 2050 -- and the entire population gone from Alaska -- because of thinning sea ice from global w...
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Climate study turns up heatSep 06, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Wildfires are flaring bigger and hotter in Alaska, the northern Rockies and the Sierra Nevada. Bighorn sheep, mountain goats and grizzly bears in Glacier N...
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Who gets federal flood aid?Sep 05, 2007 11:00 pm - A team of seven disaster response officials from local, state and federal agencies toured flood-damaged areas in the Tri-Cities Tuesday and will visit devastated...
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Fox River flood damage surveyedSep 05, 2007 11:00 pm - Gerald Panczko didn't expect to see people with notepads nosing around his Algonquin Shores neighborhood Wednesday, much less the man standing at his front door ...
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FEMA wants damage recordsSep 05, 2007 11:00 pm - People cleaning up after last month's storms are being asked by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to document the damage to their property so authorities can get a...
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FEMA: Storm damage needs proper documentationSep 04, 2007 11:00 pm - People cleaning up after high flood waters and storms are being asked to make sure they properly document the damage to their property. Aric Schmidt, a spokesman for th...
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Mount Prospect: 75 percent of storm's brush picked upSep 04, 2007 11:00 pm - On the north end of Melas Park, stands what Mount Prospect public works staff has dubbed Mount Brushmore. There are no faces of ex-presidents here, just the heads of log...
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FEMA tours Northwest suburbs to assess flood damageSep 04, 2007 11:00 pm - The Federal Emergency Management Agency damage assessment team started exploring the worst storm damage in Northwest suburban Cook County Tuesday by concentrating on Des...
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FEMA tours DuPage CountySep 04, 2007 11:00 pm - An emergency management team descended Tuesday on DuPage County to help determine if those who suffered severe storm damage will be able to apply for federal relief. Go...