Archive for ‘evacuees’
Possible Tornado Damages Tenn. Town
November 15th, 2007
Officials say a mobile home in White County suffered major damage Wednesday evening as severe storms swept across middle Tennessee.
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Thousands Homeless After Chile Quake
November 15th, 2007
Thousands homeless after Chile quake . Thousands homeless after Chile quake The Associated Press Chile’s government promised to deliver hundreds of portable houses Thursday for people left homeless
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Island nations plan for rising seas, mass migration
November 14th, 2007
Countries usually evacuate their citizens because of war or a sudden and catastrophic natural disaster. For the Pacific island state of Kiribati, the climate change disaster facing the nation is no less dramatic but on a slower time scale and means preparing its 100,000 inhabitants for lives in nations less vulnerable to wild weather and rising seas.
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Disaster funds for flood victims
November 13th, 2007
Calderon ordered the release of FONDEN (Mexico’s Fund for Disasters) to rebuild thousands of affected households and infrastructure. He said the funds would be quickly released but that the state’s recovery would be slow and prolonged.
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Indonesian volcano roaring to life
November 9th, 2007
Sending a boom across the bay, the offspring of the fabled Krakatau volcano unleashes another mighty eruption, blasting smoke and red-hot rocks hundreds of feet into the sky.
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Shortages Plague Mexican Flood Victims
November 6th, 2007
At least 20,000 people in southern Mexico remained trapped Monday on the rooftops of homes as hungry and dehydrated victims scrambled for government packages of food and medicine.
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Mexico mudslide swamps village
November 6th, 2007
Local media say up to 100 homes have been engulfed by the mudslides in southern Mexico where victims of the floods are complaining about a lack of help from authorities.
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Indonesia on volcano alert
November 6th, 2007
Mount Kelud in East Java has been spewing steam and ash from its crater for weeks while the alert on Mount Anak Krakatau, between the islands of Java and Sumatra, has been raised to the second highest level.
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Blackwater Donates Tent City to Wildfire Victims
November 5th, 2007
Embattled security firm Blackwater USA is behind an effort to provide shelter to some of the victims of the recent wildfires in Southern California.
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100,000 people trapped by flooding in Mexico’s Tabasco state
November 3rd, 2007
Civil defence authorities in the south-eastern Mexican state of Tabasco said that 100,000 people were trapped overnight Friday by flooding in the provincial capital of Villahermosa.
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Tabasco, Mexico is 70% underwater; Red Cross accepting donations
November 2nd, 2007
This is the worst flooding that region has seen in the last fifty years. Over 500 people have lost their homes.
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Noel not expected to strengthen
November 2nd, 2007
Hurricane Noel, the deadliest storm to hit the Atlantic this year, is not expected to gain strength in the next 24 hours as it tracks northward toward the U.S. but it may grow in size, forecasters said Friday. Noel slammed the Caribbean earlier this week with heavy rains that caused flooding and mudslides, leaving 115 dead, officials said
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Floods in Mexico strand thousands
November 2nd, 2007
Rescuers in boats and helicopters worked early Friday to evacuate people stranded by a flood the president called “one of the worst natural disasters” to hit Mexico. A week of heavy rains caused rivers to overflow, leaving 70 percent of the Gulf state of Tabasco underwater, and forcing thousands of people to cling to rooftops or flee to shelters. …
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Thousands await rescue in Mexico floods
November 1st, 2007
Thousands of people clung to rooftops, huddled inside waterlogged homes or hunkered down in shelters Thursday in an attempt to survive the worst flooding the low-lying Gulf state of Tabasco has seen in 50 years
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Religious leaders act on climate change
November 1st, 2007
A coalition of religious leaders urged Congress on Wednesday to ensure that the poor and most vulnerable are protected from the effects of climate change.
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