Here’s how Hurricane Irma hit Trump’s Caribbean estate
- 21-Sep-2017
Hurricane Irma crashed into Donald Trump’s Caribbean estate and damaged the property on an extensive scale. The storm crashed against the island of St Martin where Mr Trump owns a waterfront estate. The winds reportedly wrecked buildings, uprooted trees and overturned cars in the region. French officials who control the side of the island where Mr Trump’s property […]
Climate change and hurricanes: do we need a smoking gun?
- 12-Sep-2017
WASHINGTON: Many climate scientists are convinced that mega-storms Harvey and Irma Hurricane — which left scores dead and caused massive economic losses — were boosted by global warming, but hesitate to say so in as many words. Call it the hurricane paradox. On the one hand, top experts point to the laws of physics, computer modeling, […]
VIDEO: Hurricane Irma sucks away the ocean from Florida and Bahamas beaches
- 12-Sep-2017
The destruction caused by Hurricane Irma is so powerful that it has temporarily sucked the ocean away from beaches in Florida and the Bahamas after it struck the US city. A picture was tweeted by a user last week with a caption: “Y’all my family in the Bahamas said Irma sucked up all the water. […]
Economic cost of Harvey, Irma could be $290 bn: forecaster
- 11-Sep-2017
WASHINGTON: The combined economic cost of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma could reach $290 billion, equivalent to 1.5 percent of the US gross domestic product, US forecaster AccuWeather said in a report Sunday. “We believe the damage estimate from Irma to be about $100 billion, among the costliest hurricanes of all time,” said the firm’s CEO […]
Hurricane Irma menaces Florida’s Gulf Coast after striking Cuba
- 09-Sep-2017
REMEDIOS: Hurricane Irma pounded Cuba’s northern coast on Saturday and barreled toward Florida’s Gulf Coast as authorities scrambled to complete an unprecedented evacuation of millions of residents hours before the storm lashes the state. Irma, one of the fiercest Atlantic storms in a century, was expected to rip through the Florida Keys archipelago on Sunday […]
Indian Embassy tells 1,500 hurricane-hit Indian families in Caribbean to ‘go to hell’
- 09-Sep-2017
As many as 1,500 Indian families stranded in the Caribbean in the wake of powerful hurricane have simply gotten the cold shoulder from their own embassy at the most difficult time when they were expecting all-out assistance. The Indian Embassy in Venezuela, according to a report in the Mid-Day, won’t help the nearly 1,500 Indians […]
So how do mega-storms get named, anyhow?
- 07-Sep-2017
PARIS: First there was Harvey, which put much of Houston under water. Now Hurricane Irma is rampaging across the Caribbean and closing in on Miami. Meanwhile, Jose — still a tropical storm — is brewing in the Gulf of Mexico, while Katia in the Atlantic is threatening to ramp up to hurricane force in the […]
1.2 million people ‘battered’ by Irma: Red Cross
- 07-Sep-2017
GENEVA: An estimated 1.2 million people have already been “battered” by Hurricane Irma, a number that could surge to 26 million, the Red Cross said on Thursday. “Our worst fears have played out in Barbuda and elsewhere,” Walter Cotte, Americas director for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), said in […]
Hurricane Irma kills eight on Caribbean island of Saint Martin
- 07-Sep-2017
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico: Hurricane Irma killed eight people on the Caribbean island of Saint Martin and left Barbuda devastated on Thursday as one of the most powerful Atlantic storms in a century took aim at Florida. Television footage of the Franco-Dutch island of Saint Martin showed a damaged marina with boats tossed into piles, […]
Florida prepares for ‘extremely dangerous’ hurricane in recorded history
- 06-Sep-2017
FLORIDA: Emergency management officials across South Florida hastened disaster preparations on Tuesday in anticipation of Hurricane Irma’s expected weekend arrival on the U.S. mainland with possibly greater force than Hurricane Harvey unleashed on Texas. Irma, a Category 5 storm – the highest hurricane ranking used by U.S. forecasters – neared the Caribbean’s northern Leeward Islands, […]