Hawaii Fishing News

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What a couple of blessed overnight trips! One was just a quick late night family mission, and I caught both this nice ulua, and an omilu in the morning. On the other trip, Chucky and I pulled into a spot, just as a group of guys were leaving. They sa

American Craft

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LAURA PETROVICH-CHENEY was living in New Jersey when Hurricane Sandy hit in 2012. Her house sustained significant damage, while many other homes, including her parents’, were destroyed. At the time, the artist was already creating her signature wood

Shooting Times & Country

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With the wildfowling season here and a succession of areas of low pressure arriving from the Atlantic, now is a good time to be out on the foreshore. Strong winds encourage duck and geese to fly low where they are in range, so foul weather often offe

Farm Collector

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For those who live far from Florida, hurricanes are short-lived. For those left to pick up the pieces and rebuild, a hurricane is less a weather phenomenon than it is an unwelcome new reality. Such is the case at Panhandle Pioneer Settlement, a livin

REVOLUTION DIGITAL

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What does a brand do when it needs to visit its second biggest-selling territory? Well, if you are Nick and Giles English of Bremont, you take it as an opportunity to tick off a long-standing entry on your bucket list. According to Nick who, along wi

Los Angeles Times

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KATY, Texas - Gary Smith traveled about 100 miles east to the Houston area Monday with his 21-year-old twin sons, a truck and a boat in tow to help rescue those stranded by Tropical Storm Harvey. First thing after arriving at about 8:30 a.m., they lo

India Today

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Starting August 4, distressing visuals of a flooded city, landslides and walls collapsing began emerging from Mumbai after the city was hit by heavy rainfall and gusty winds of speeds upto 107 kmph. According to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation

NPR

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Blanca Matos' home, which backs up against a river, has flooded, and re-flooded, nearly every day this week. After each rain, she mops the house, cursing the river.

NPR

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'I need a strong house,' say Angel Joel Alvarez Lopez, whose roof was ripped off his home. Rain is pouring in. Now, he's looking ahead to months of building and trying to determine his next steps.

Sail

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It’s been a rocky road of late for the charter industry, especially here in the Western Hemisphere. First came hurricanes Irma and Maria in the Caribbean followed by Dorian in the Bahamas. There has also, of course, been the coronavirus, which burst

PassageMaker

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We spend a lot of time in these pages encouraging you to go farther with your boats, to push boundaries, to venture beyond the reef. For those of you who might be halfway across the Pacific or a good way around the world, that’s the dream; that’s wha

Practical Boat Owner

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Despite the February storms, a group of volunteers have managed to sail along part of the Cornish coast, collecting 863kg of rubbish in just ten days. The 10 days 10 beaches campaign was led by Steve Green and Monika Hertlová from the group Clean Oce

Tracks

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IT WAS BACK IN MID-FEBRUARY THAT TROPICAL CYCLONE UESI JUMPED OUT FROM BEHIND NEW CALEDONIA AND SPRINTED SOUTH INTO QUEENSLAND AND NSW’S SWELL WINDOW. THE STORM’S URGENT PACE MEANT THE SWELL WAS SHORT LIVED, MOSTLY PRODUCING ONLY ONE DAY OF CLASSIC W

Popular Science

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Flooding in the wake of Hurricane Harvey. Even with a lot of warning the effects were devastating. What will happen as hurricanes get harder to predict? US Customs and Border Patrol This week Hurricane Irma—a grandmotherly name for a monster of a hur

NPR

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When it rains hard, the drainage canal near Shawn Pila's house creates a perfect, surfable, standing wave. The one created during Hurricane Lane was the biggest he'd ever surfed.

Los Angeles Times

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MONTECITO, Calif. - Montecito resident Dominic Shiach thought the worst was over when the massive Thomas fire finally stopped threatening his town last month. But Monday night and early Tuesday morning, the rains began to pound. Within hours, the com

NPR

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"It tore the brick off, it tore the roof off, it lifted the truck by its roof. I mean, it tore everything. I have a skylight in my truck right now," a fire department official said.

Futurity

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The United States just suffered the most intense hurricane season in more than a decade, and possibly the costliest ever. Hurricane Harvey hit Houston in mid-August. Hurricane Irma struck Florida in early September, and just two weeks later, Hurrican

You South Africa

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A stall owner stands in floodwater that swept through a flower market after heavy rains hit Mumbai in India last month. The city is particularly susceptible to flooding as it has many low-lying areas and the region receives a lot of rain. ■

NPR

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Historic flooding in the Midwest has caused unprecedented damage and led to at least three deaths.

Who Do You Think You Are?

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Flooding hit London on 6–7 January 1928 when a storm surge raised the River Thames to the highest level that had ever been recorded, 18 feet 3 inches at its peak. Water poured over the top of the Thames Embankment, and part of the Chelsea Embankment

5280 Magazine

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Located almost a thousand miles from the nearest ocean, Fort Collins isn’t in danger of being devastated by hurricanes anytime soon. Nevertheless, research conducted in the northern Colorado city has been giving those who live on the East Coast an id

Los Angeles Times

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After several years of surging demand for travel in the U.S., overall travel volume grew more slowly in September when a large swath of the country was battered by two massive hurricanes. Travel volume within and to the U.S. increased 1.4 percent in

Los Angeles Times

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MONTECITO, Calif. - It started four months ago, when the largest fire on record in California history besieged this upscale coastal enclave. Soon after, heavy rains sent tons of mud, boulders and debris crashing into Montecito neighborhoods - killing

JOY Magazine

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Of the nine unreached people groups in Mozambique, Far East Broadcasting Association (FEBA) Radio South Africa reaches five of these groups through its stations: The Yao, Mwani, Makwe, Makonde, and Makhuwa. FEBA’s stations also broadcast in three add

The Texas Observer

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▸ In September, Tropical Storm Imelda dropped 22 inches of rain in 48 hours in Sargent. Some areas received up to 40 inches over the course of the storm, which has been linked to five deaths. It was the fifth 500-year storm to hit Southeast Texas in

Mornings with Jesus

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THE FORECAST WAS GRIM AND getting grimmer by the minute. Hurricane Irma was an epic storm of historical proportions, her exact path completely unpredictable. All of Florida was in her crosshairs. Having recently moved to the state’s beautiful Suncoas

NPR

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Some 2,000 people have been displaced, according to one humanitarian group's estimate. But there are hopeful signs. Puerto Rico's utility says roughly 80% of its customers have their electricity back.

Woman's Own

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The best thing to do at any time of year is to ensure your property is well looked after. Regular checks can help your home stand up to bad weather when it comes. Checking your roof is important so go outside and look up; are any tiles missing or are

Farmer's Weekly

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Despite the damage caused by heavy rainfall in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN), the positive effects of the rain outweighed the negative. This was according to Johan van den Berg, independent meteorologist, who said that northern KZN received the heaviest rainfa