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Weather RSS FeedsAugust 28, 2008 As Gustav nears, Gulf Coast puts faith in planning - With Gustav approaching hurricane strength and showing no signs of veering off a track to slam into the Gulf Coast, authorities across the region began laying the groundwork today to get the sick, elderly and poor away from the shoreline. ...Feed Source: feeds.baltimoresun.com
August 28, 2008 Gustav stalls off Haiti - Tropical storm likely to strengthen, hit U.S. Gulf Coast
Tropical Storm Gustav stalled offshore yesterday and poured more misery onto Haiti after landslides and flooding killed 23 people. Oil workers in the Gulf of Mexico began leaving their rigs and New Orleans drew up evacuation plans as forecasters warned the storm could plow into the U.S. coast as a major hurricane.
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August 26, 2008 Hurricane Gustav strikes southern Haiti - Storm could threaten Gulf of Mexico oil operations
Hurricane Gustav struck Haiti on Tuesday and sent global oil prices soaring on fears it could become "extremely dangerous" even before it reaches the Gulf of Mexico.
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August 25, 2008 Fay's waters force evacuations in Fla. - DEBARY, Fla. Rescue teams are evacuating people from 180 homes in a Florida town about 25 miles north of Orlando because of flooding from what was Tropical Storm Fay. Officials say they're using boats to evacuate people from DeBary, where some streets are under four feet of water. Fay made landfall a record four times in Florida before it was downgraded to a tropical depression late Saturday. The storm caused plenty of flooding as it zigzagged across Florida for nearly a week. Waters continued to rise in some places yesterday as President Bush declared four hard-hit counties disaster areas.
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August 22, 2008 Great Hurricane both blessing, curse to Ocean City - 1933 storm cut new inlet at the south end of town, but also proved costly
In the early years of the last century, Ocean City's commercial fishermen had to launch their boats through the surf and drag them and their catch back onto the beach with horses, ropes and pulleys. It was colorful, but inefficient.
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August 22, 2008 First rain, then floods, now alligators, snakes in Florida after Fay - Tropical Storm Fay's misery just keeps on coming in Fla.
As if a fourth straight day of rain from Tropical Storm Fay weren't enough, weary residents are now dealing with quintessentially Floridian fallout: alligators, snakes and other critters driven from their swampy lairs into flooded streets, backyards and doorsteps.
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August 19, 2008 Storm hits Keys, heads for coast - Many Florida residents were taking a wait-and-see attitude yesterday as a strengthening Tropical Storm Fay swept across the Keys and bore down on the Gulf Coast.
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August 18, 2008 Evacuation is slow ahead of Fay - Keys officials close schools, urge visitors to leave, but atmosphere seems relaxed
Florida Keys officials closed schools, opened shelters and urged visitors to leave yesterday as Tropical Storm Fay threatened to strengthen into a hurricane, but residents and tourists seemed in no hurry to evacuate.
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August 17, 2008 Florida braces for Tropical Storm Fay - KEY WEST, Fla. Residents and tourists in the Florida Keys prepared yesterday for Tropical Storm Fay, which forecasters said could strengthen to a hurricane and begin battering the island chain as soon as tomorrow. Florida Gov. Charlie Crist declared a state of emergency because Fay "threatens the state of Florida with a major disaster," he wrote in an executive order. Forecasters predicted yesterday afternoon that the sixth named storm of the 2008 season would make landfall somewhere along the western coast of Florida on Tuesday as a hurricane, said Corey Walton of the National Hurricane Center in Miami.
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August 11, 2008 10 years later, memories of Western Md. tornado linger - Western Maryland families recall the terror and violence of tornado
Janet Stevens still pauses when remembering the tornado in 1998 - she still hears the roaring, raging winds, still sees scattered shards of glass where her Eckhart home was.
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