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by Thomas CABRAL Agence France Presse LISBON, Portugal (AFP) — Violent storms hit Portugal early on Sunday, leaving hundreds of thousands of people without power before carrying heavy rain on into Spain, authorities said. Leslie, which was a category one hurricane but weakened to a post-tropical storm as it made landfall late Saturday, left 28 people with minor injuries, civil defense commander Luis Belo Costa told reporters. The region around the capital Lisbon and the […]
by Thomas Cabral Agence France Presse LISBON, Portugal (AFP) — Heavy squalls began to hit Portugal late Saturday, with the country on red alert as Hurricane Leslie barrelled towards its coastline in what could be the fiercest storm since 1842. Neighbouring Spain was also preparing itself for what was dubbed a “zombie” hurricane, as it first formed on September 23 and has been meandering through the waters of the Atlantic Ocean for weeks. Leslie was […]
by Alvaro VILLALOBOS Agence France-Presse Sant Llorenc des Cardassar, Spain (AFP) — Rescue workers searched desperately Thursday for a five-year-old boy and two Germans still missing on Spain’s holiday island of Majorca after flash floods tore through streets and swept away cars, killing 10 people. A massive clean-up was under way in the mud-covered streets of Sant Llorenc des Cardassar, one of the worst-hit towns, after intense, driving rain on Tuesday afternoon surprised locals who […]
NEW DELHI, India (AFP) — A cyclone packing winds of up to 150 kilometers (95 miles) per hour and heavy rains hit eastern India early Thursday, with over 300,000 people evacuated from low-lying areas and two men reported killed. Officials in neighboring Bangladesh said they were on alert in the coastal district of Cox’s Bazar, home to around one million Rohingya refugees from Myanmar living in tarpaulin and bamboo shelters. Cyclone Titli, which intensified into […]
by Ivan Couronne Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Hurricane Michael, which tore into Florida on Wednesday, went in just two days from tropical storm status to a Category 4 hurricane, on a scale with a maximum of five. Here are some figures which illustrate the power of Michael on the continental United States and which “took forecasters by surprise,” according to Phil Klotzbach, a research scientist in the Department of Atmospheric Science […]
ROME, Italy (AFP) — Part of a highway bridge on the Italian island of Sardinia has been swept away as a result of heavy rains, firefighter footage showed Wednesday. The road had been closed to traffic earlier after a sink hole opened up, but the collapse of the bridge across a swollen river effectively cut the highway in two. No vehicles were on the road at the time. Italy’s creaking infrastructure has come under fresh […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The US Air Force shuttered a command-and-control center as Hurricane Michael tore into the Florida coast, a top general said Wednesday, as the military mobilized thousands of troops to help tackle the monster storm’s impact. Tyndall Air Force Base, located in Panama City on the coast of the Florida Panhandle, was fully evacuated Tuesday night, just before the Michael made landfall, said Air Force General Terrence O’Shaughnessy, commander of North […]
by Alvaro VILLALOBOS Agence France Presse SANT LLORENC DES CARDASSAR, Spain (AFP) — At least 10 people died, including two Britons, and a boy remained missing Wednesday after flash floods hit the Spanish holiday island of Majorca, tearing through village streets and sweeping away cars. Muddy waters rushed down roads, houses were flooded and vehicles piled up on top of each other after the Mediterranean island was pounded with rain in just a few hours, […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Michael has strengthened to an “extremely dangerous” Category Four hurricane as it rumbles toward the Gulf Coast of Florida, the National Hurricane Center said Wednesday. It said the storm is now packing maximum wind gusts of 130 mph (210 kilometers), could grow even more and is expected to make landfall later in the day along the Florida Panhandle or Big Bend area as a “life-threatening event”. A storm surge of […]
by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / with Leila Macor in Miami Agence France Presse PANAMA CITY, United States (AFP) — Michael is now forecast to slam ashore on Florida’s Gulf Coast as a Category 4 hurricane, bringing a surge of up to 13 feet (four meters) in what could be the worst storm there in decades. As of late Tuesday, Michael was packing maximum sustained winds of nearly 125 miles per hour (205 kilometers) as it […]
by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / with Leila Macor in Miami Agence France Presse PANAMA CITY, United States (AFP) — Hurricane Michael intensified Tuesday as it barreled toward the Florida coast, becoming a category 3 major storm as the governor of the southern US state warned residents to prepare immediately for a “monstrous” hit. Michael was now packing winds of 120 miles per hour (195 kilometers per hour) as it aimed for the Florida panhandle, the finger-shaped […]
by Leila MACOR Agence France Presse MIAMI, United States (AFP) — Florida was warned Monday to plan for “life-threatening” flash flooding as Michael heads for the US Gulf Coast, where it is expected to make landfall midweek as a major Category 3 hurricane. The alert came as the tropical storm system strengthened to a Category 1 hurricane, packing maximum sustained winds of 75 miles (120 kilometers) per hour, earlier in the day. By 1800 […]
