Hurricane Ida News

There are times when I wish I'd been born 100 years ago instead of 64 and could have lived my active years without the Internet and satellites, BlackBerrys, cellphones and computers cluttering the landscape. This is not one of those times.

Because if you turned the calendar back 30 or 40 years, I'd have spent last week bashing into monstrous head seas in the North Atlantic in a small boat, probably a leaky, wooden one, bound for Bermuda in survival conditions with no communications, no weather information, no way of knowing when or whether the dreadful storm would end.

Video by Jennifer Holloway of Deltaville Marina & Boatyard. Kansas has tornadoes, rain, hail, snow, ice and summers that make you wish for all of the above.

Oil advanced for a third day in New York , rising above $80 a barrel after an industry report showed crude stockpiles declined in the US , the largest energy consumer.

We've come a thousand miles! We're now in Daytona Beach, FL. We totally missed Beaufort, SC while waiting out the passing of the remnants of Hurricane Ida that morphed into a nor'easter and battered our friends in Annapolis.

The death toll in El Salvador from the rains and flooding caused by Hurricane Ida last weekend has reached 184, local authorities said Friday.

When Hurricane Kate sucker-punched Tallahassee in late November of 1985, I had a freezer full of Omaha steaks, a case of cold Heineken in the fridge and two tickets to that weekend's REM/Minutemen concert at the Civic Center.

Emergency supplies donated by Chevron, operating in El Salvador under its Texaco brand, will arrive this weekend to Salvadoran communities struggling in the aftermath of devastating Hurricane Ida, the Pan American Development Foundation announced.

Remediation Group, Inc. , the professional mold remediation company with offices in Atlanta, Ft.

The swine flu is being blamed for the death of a five-month-old baby girl in San Diego County who was said to be very healthy otherwise.

Hurricane Ida's remnants lashed the New Jersey coast on Friday, producing heavy rains, strong winds and towering waves that ripped dunes into the ocean, flooded streets and closed countless schools.

State police announced Friday that they think Morgan D. Harrington was trying to hitchhike on a Copeley Road bridge the night she disappeared, which her father said isn't something she'd normally do.

AP Winds, waves scour East Coast Nov. 13: Strong winds and high waves from the remnants of Hurricane Ida are responsible for five deaths, as well as power outages, school closures and the destruction of coastal homes.

Flood warnings were issued this morning for Horry and Georgetown counties, according to the National Weather Service in Wilmington, N.C. A total rainfall of 4 to 6 inches is expected from the storm with locally higher amounts, said Mark Bacon, a meteorologist.

On Tuesday afternoon, Humberto Centeno, the country's interior minister said that 13,670 were homeless.

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Central Atlanta Progress Sets Sights on New Opportunities for Redevelopment November 16, 2009 Despite the heavy rains brought on by Hurricane Ida, the annual Downtown Development Day attracted more than 450 professionals from all areas of the real estate industry last Tuesday to the new addition of AmericasMart , making it one of the most ...

Wilbert Gordon, left, of St. Thomas photographs Mildred Francis and her nieces, Joycelyn O'Garro and Marian O'Garro, both of Toronto, Canada, at an overlook above St.

In this Nov. 11, 2009 file photo, a motorist pumps gas at the Super Petroleum gas station in Lawrence, Mass.

A cool front moving through the area today, an approaching warm front from the southwest and a low pressure system possibly moving over the area this weekend will bring changing weather to the coastal Carolinas this week, according to the National Weather Service.. Today is expected to be partly cloudy with a high in the upper 60s.

Daily Dispatch/ASHLEY STEVEN AYSCUE Traffic barriers block travel across the bridge on Nutbush Road Monday morning after water from Kerr Lake crept onto the roadway Sunday.