By Claire Galofaro 16 October 2017 PORT ARTHUR, Texas (Associated Press) – The church was empty, except for the piano too heavy for one man to move. It had been 21 days since the greatest storm Wayne Christopher had ever seen dumped a year’s worth of rain on his town, drowning this church where he […]
Dr. Jeff Masters 22 October 2017 (Wunderground) – Typhoon Lan made landfall near Omaezaki City, Japan, about 120 miles southwest of Tokyoa, near 3 am JST Monday. At landfall, Lan was a Category 2 storm with sustained 1-minute winds of 105 mph. Lan drenched Japan’s main island of Honshu with dangerous torrential rains on Sunday […]
By Patricia Mazzei and Omaya Sosa Pascual 19 October 2017 MAUNABO, Puerto Rico (Center for Investigative Journalism) – Before Hurricane Maria tore through the rest of this island, it came to Mayor Jorge Márquez’s home.The storm ripped through improvised plastic shutters, shook the windows and sent his panicked family, including his grandchildren, scurrying to a […]
By David Ovalle 20 October 2017 SAN JUAN (Miami Herald) – Hurricane Maria ripped apart daily life in Puerto Rico but it hasn’t brought a halt to the crime that has long plagued the poverty-stricken island. In the hard-scrabble neighborhood of Rio Piedras, Jessica Rojas was at work this week making sandwiches at a Subway […]
AUSTIN, Texas, 22 October 2017 (Associated Press) – The Latest on the hurricane relief concert attended by a five living ex-presidents (all times local): 8:35 p.m. The five living former presidents have attended a concert to benefit victims of hurricanes in Texas, Florida, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.Barack Obama, George W. Bush, George […]
By Seth Borenstein And Emily Swanson 12 October 2017 (AP) – After hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria blitzed the nation, most Americans think weather disasters are getting more severe and see global warming’s fingerprints.A new poll from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that 68 percent of Americans think weather disasters seem […]
By Jennifer Bendery 12 October 2017 WASHINGTON (Huffington Post) – Water is rationed. Scabies is spreading. Grocery stores are lined with empty shelves, if they’re open at all. People are fainting as they wait in lines for hours in sweltering heat, because they have to check into a FEMA hub to get small amounts of […]
By Carolina Moreno 20 October 2017 CAROLINA, Puerto Rico (Huffington Post) – Christian Romero sat in near darkness in the stairwell of his apartment building. The glare from his phone illuminated his face, as he swiped through photos of his late brother Romsy. “I feel like a part of me is missing,” Romero, 28, told […]
By Angela Fritz 20 October 2017 (The Washington Post) – Typhoon Lan is growing more powerful in the very warm waters of the tropical Pacific. It has more than enough energy to draw from over the next 48 hours, and will in all likelihood reach Category-4 strength on Friday or Saturday. The storm is tracking […]
By Edward-Isaac Dovere 17 October 2017 (Politico) – Just before the interview starts, Jenniffer González-Colón tries four different numbers she’s been trying to reach back home in Puerto Rico. She gets the same error message for all of them. Can’t connect.One call that does come through is from the White House, which is trying to […]
