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Powerful new hurricane forecasting tool unveiled
Although hurricane season has ended, our quest for understanding and taming these monster storms never sleeps.
HMI Deploys over 2,000 Tree Crews to Serve the Insurance Industry
Doug Malawsky , executive vice president and COO of Horticultural Asset Management, Inc.
Local Leads: C&O Canal Hole Stays
The following stories have been hand-selected by the Assignment Desk at News4: C&O CANAL HOLE Fall hikers and holiday diners at the Old Angler's Inn will be seeing the 80-foot breach in the C&O Canal towpath again this year, with no funding available to fill in the gap.
Flyer advocate says Delta obtained hacked e-mails
A passenger rights advocate accused Delta Air Lines Inc. in a federal lawsuit Tuesday of conspiring with a Virginia company to obtain hacked e-mails from her computer to help them derail her efforts to protect air travelers from lengthy tarmac delays and other inconveniences.
Cary gets $1.1M for railroad project
The North Carolina Department of Transportation has awarded eight grants totaling $9 million to be used for railroad track and safety improvements, including a $1.1 million award for a Cary project.
That Rumble Isn't Thunder: Bikers Roar Back to Wildwood
The rumblings heard in this city over the weekend won't be caused by thunder. The roar of hundreds of bikes will be heard throughout the Wildwoods, during the annual Roar to the Shore motorcycle rally.
More than 300 cyclists race in Phillipsburg Criterium
More than 300 bicyclists showed up Saturday, making the 2009 Phillipsburg Criterium among the most successful in the race's nine-year history, organizers said.
The festival's your oyster, or folklife stop
Unless you're new to the area, you know that the fall season hosts some of the Peninsula's best festivals.
Phillipsburg Criterium on track after last year's washout
The Phillipsburg Criterium, sabotaged last year by Hurricane Hanna, is set to begin a weekend earlier this year -- and with a sunny forecast.
Ravaged Caribbean island awaits return of the hurricanes
Decades of deforestation left the Carribean island defenceless against last year's catastrophic hurricanes.
Recruit Depot, Recruiting Region to get new commanding general
For the second time in a little more than a year, the 5,000 Marines and civilian employees of Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island will wish fair winds and following seas to their commanding general.
the Divine Diva: Training for pastors in China
Last year, I wrote about First Presbyterian Church's restablishing links that it had 50 years ago with a church its missionaries had created in China.
Blanca weakens to tropical depression in Pacific
15, 2008 re: "Tropical storm expected to form from depression" 1 agree 2 disagree Vote on this comment: agree or disagree Report as inappropriate Examiner Reader says: As an Ike survivor, our prayers are with you.
Red Cross ready for hurricane season
It has been one month into the hurricane season and there has not been any major activity along the coast, but the local chapter of the American Red Cross is ready.
Some Chicopee residents say big rain storms bring flooding fears, but the city could have a solution.
Palm Beach County to get $2.2 million in federal aid for storm-battered beaches
Palm Beach County will get $2.2 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to help restore 192,300 cubic yards of sand that eroded from county beaches last year as a result of Tropical Storm Fay and Hurricane Hanna, county environmental managers said today.
National Weather Service 2009 Hurricane Forecast + 2008 Storm...
PRWEB.COM Newswire Source: PR Web Wordcount: The National Weather Service predicts a 2009 Atlantic Hurricane Season of between 9 and 14 named storms, of which 4 to 7 may be hurricanes.
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