Storm Harold Triggers Floods, Outages And Tornado Warnings As It Hits Texas
"Tropical Storm Harold is plowing through Texas, triggering flash flooding and tornado warnings as the gusty storm pushes toward Mexico."
Source: CNN, 08/23/2023
Disasters
"Greece Discovers 18 Charred Bodies As Southern Europe Wildfires Spread"
"Eighteen charred bodies were found in a remote village in northeastern Greece on Tuesday where wildfires have been raging for days, the fire brigade said, as a heatwave that has seen red alerts issued across southern Europe turned deadly."
Source: Reuters, 08/23/2023
Biden Revives Rules to Prevent Another Deepwater Horizon Disaster
"The Department of Interior announced on Tuesday that it had reinstated Obama-era safety rules for offshore drilling that were created in the wake of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon catastrophe that killed 11 people and fouled the Gulf of Mexico."
Source: NYTimes, 08/23/2023
Suicide Watch Incidents in Louisiana Prisons Spike on Extreme Heat Days
"The number of suicide watch incidents in Louisiana prisons increased by 30 percent on extreme heat days, a recently published study in the JAMA Journal found."
Source: , 08/22/2023
"850 People Missing After Maui Wildfires, Mayor Says Ahead Of Biden’s Visit"
"A total of 850 people remain missing following the devastating wildfires in Maui, the Hawaiian county’s mayor said Monday, with this latest count coming ahead of President Joe Biden’s visit to the island."
Source: HuffPost, 08/22/2023
"The Latest on Hilary, Emily, Franklin, Gert, and a Texas-Mexico Threat"
"[I]t’s not often that a tropical storm from the Eastern Pacific moves through Southern California on the same weekend that three tropical storms erupt in the Atlantic. That’s where things stood on Sunday, Aug. 20, 2023."
Source: Yale Climate Connections, 08/22/2023
"After Hilary, A Big Clean-Up And Lots Of Water But Lives Spared"
"Tropical Storm Hilary drenched the American Southwest before fading Monday to a mere rainstorm, leaving communities from the Pacific Coast to inland Nevada with a substantial cleanup effort but no reported deaths in the United States."
Source: Washington Post, 08/22/2023
Indian Floods: More Rain, Less Snow Are Turning Himalayas Dangerous
"Torrential rains and unabated construction are frequently triggering disasters in India's Himalayan region."
Source: BBC News, 08/21/2023
"Locals Have Been Sounding The Alarm For Years About Lahaina Wildfire Risk"
"David woke suddenly in the mid-afternoon. The 56-year-old chef could hear commotion outside and scrambled up from his nap, finding his roommates on the roof of their shared home, holding garden hoses and spraying water on a raging inferno licking closer by the minute."
Source: Grist, 08/21/2023
"Fierce Hilary Rolls Into Southern California, Bringing Heavy Rain, Flooding"
"After days of urgent warnings and preparations, Tropical Storm Hilary made landfall in Baja California on Sunday, turning roads into rivers and imperiling homes before barreling north toward Southern California."
Source: LA Times, 08/21/2023
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