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Hurricane Nate makes second landfall along US Gulf Coast

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Powerful Hurricane Nate made a second landfall along the US Gulf Coast early Sunday, after leaving a trail of death and destruction in Central America. Around 1:30 am (0530 GMT), the US National Hurricane Center said the storm struck about five miles (eight kilometers) west of Biloxi, Mississippi, where storm surges caused sea water to rise dramatically. Nate was packingRead more

Hurricane Nate makes landfall in southern US

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Hurricane Nate has made landfall at the mouth of the Mississippi River on the southeastern tip of the state of Louisiana, the National Hurricane Center said Saturday. The storm was packing winds of 85 miles (140 kilometers) per hour as it was bearing north at 20 miles (31 kilometers) per hour. Nate caused widespread flooding and left dozens of peopleRead more

Eye of Hurricane Maria makes landfall in Puerto Rico

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The eye of Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico early Wednesday, pummeling the island as a Category Four storm with winds of 155 miles (250 kilometers) per hour, the US National Hurricane Center said. The center of the storm came ashore near Yabucoa in southeastern Puerto Rico around 6:15 am (1015 GMT), the forecasters said. source: AFPRead more

Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands brace

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As residents of Puerto Rico brace for Hurricane Maria -- which slammed into the Caribbean as a Category 5 storm Monday night -- Puerto Rico's governor is calling the storm "the biggest and potentially most catastrophic hurricane to hit Puerto Rico in a century." Maria, which has left at least two dead in the Caribbean, is forecast to "remainRead more

Hurricane Maria bears down on battered Caribbean

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Caribbean island nations still recovering from Irma are bracing for a third hurricane strike in two weeks, while the U.S. Northeast is expected to take a glancing shot from Hurricane Jose. Hurricane Maria with top winds of 120 miles per hour, was 60 miles east of Martinique and bearing down on Dominica and Guadeloupe in the Caribbean's Leeward Islands, theRead more

More than 1,500 Saudi students evacuated as Hurricane Irma nears Florida

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The Saudi attaché in Houston has evacuated more than 1,500 Saudi students and their families from Florida which is bracing for Hurricane Irma. Irma — which has killed at least 19 people and devastated thousands of homes in the Caribbean — made landfall late Friday on the Camaguey Archipelago of Cuba as a maximum-strength Category 5 storm. The eye ofRead more

Hurricane Irma makes second landfall in Florida

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Hurricane Irma made landfall for the second time in Florida on Sunday, this time striking Marco Island near the popular shopping and golf destination of Naples, US forecasters said. The deadly hurricane hit Marco Island at 3:35 pm (1935 GMT) as a Category Three storm with top winds swirling at 115 miles (185 kilometers) per hour just 15 miles south-southeastRead more

Irma downgraded to Category Three hurricane, remains 'powerful

Miami - Muslimchronicle

Hurricane Irma was downgraded to a Category Three storm on Sunday afternoon, forecasters said, but they warned that it remained "powerful." Maximum sustained winds were at 120 miles per hour (195 kilometers per hour), with higher gusts, the National Hurricane Center said as the storm slowly approached mainland Florida. It had whipped the Florida Keys island chain early Sunday asRead more

Category Two Hurricane Irma forms in eastern Atlantic

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Hurricane Irma has formed in the eastern Atlantic as a Category 2 storm, just days after the first major hurricane of the season, Harvey, unleashed massive rain and floods over Texas, US officials said Thursday. Hurricane Irma churned in open waters off the west coast of Africa, packing winds of 100 miles per hour (155 kilometers per hour). "Irma isRead more

Houston battles massive floods, Trump set

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Massive flooding unleashed by deadly monster storm Harvey left Houston — the fourth-largest city in the United States — increasingly isolated Sunday as its airports and highways shut down and residents fled homes waist-deep in water. The city’s two main airports suspended all commercial flights and two hospitals were forced to evacuate patients. A local television station also was knockedRead more