Sept. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Hurricane Ike, which left 66 people dead in Haiti, moved back over water after crossing central Cuba and is forecast to make landfall again before heading into the oil-rich Gulf of Mexico and intensifying. Ike's winds fell to 130 kilometers (80 miles) per hour, making it a Category 1 storm, the lowest on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale of intensity, according to the latest advisory from the U.S. National Hurricane Center. It was about 225 kilometers southeast of Havana...
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Hurricane Ike strengthened to an "extremely dangerous" Category 4 storm in the Atlantic today, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) warned, threatening island nations and raising the prospect of another huge storm slamming the US Gulf Coast. Packing sustained winds near 215 kilometres per hour, powerful Ike was about 145 kilometres east of Grand Turk Island near the southern Bahamas shortly before 2100 GMT, and was expected to barrel into Cuba Sunday or Monday, the Miami-based NHC...
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By JESSICA GRESKO and SARAH LARIMER –  HOMESTEAD, Fla. (AP) — Ike is still far out in the Atlantic, but it's getting a close look from those who weathered 1992's Andrew, the devastating Category 5 storm against which all other Florida hurricanes are measured."There's an obvious comparison. The thing's taking aim at deep South Florida," said Tad DeMilly, who as mayor of Homestead saw his city devastated in 1992. He was monitoring Ike's progress from his new home in...
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I woke up very early this morning with a growing concern. Here in the United States we are in a holiday weekend. But we are also facing a significant challenge. No doubt many of you are already praying - but would you take a couple of minutes to read the following. Then please join us in prayer and help to get this prayer alert out to others that can join with us both in the United States and around the world. Here's why.History and Context: In 2005 as Rita, a category 5 Hurricane was...
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Tropical Storm Gustav whipped Jamaica with fierce rain and wind Thursday and threatened to grow back into a hurricane before striking the Cayman Islands on Friday.

No fatalities were reported in Jamaica, but the death toll continued to mount throughout Gustav's wake in Hispaniola, with Haitian officials confirming at least 51 deaths.

APALACHICOLA, Fla. — Fay just won't quit.The tropical storm that set a record with four landfalls in Florida chugged west across the Gulf Coast on Saturday and cities from Pensacola to New Orleans prepared for several inches of rain.Proving that a slow-moving tropical storm can be as deadly and damaging as a hurricane, Fay killed at least 11 people in Florida and one in Georgia, emergency officials said.Thousands of homes and businesses were inundated with flood waters this week as the...
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Atlanta residents braced for another bout of fierce weather on Saturday, as clean-up crews worked overnight to clear damage from severe thunderstorms and possibly a tornado that shattered skyscraper windows, injured dozens and knocked out power to thousands of people.
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BEIJING, China (CNN) -- China's worst winter in more than half a century showed no signs of abating Wednesday as forecasters told citizens to brace for three more days of snow and sleet.

BOSTON, Dec 16 (Reuters) - A snowstorm that blanketed parts of the Midwestern United States barreled into New England on Sunday, bringing snow, freezing rain and high winds that grounded flights and made driving treacherous.

Roads were slick with snow and ice, and local airports reported hundreds of flights canceled across New England.
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BEIJING -- -- A powerful typhoon slammed into China's east coast early today, hours after Chinese authorities evacuated more than 2 million people with the help of text messages and old-fashioned knocks on the door.

All along the heavily populated eastern seaboard, officials shut down schools and factories and ordered ships and fishing boats back to port as cadres in raincoats hustled residents from homes at low elevations, clutching plastic bags of possessions.

Visitor Evacuation Begins in Response to Ernesto . . . Mainland Shelter Opens Monday Morning Mobile Home Evacuations Begin At 10 Am Monday . . . (CBS4 News) KEY WEST If you live in the Florida Keys, you may not be forced to leave the islands, but if you're a tourist, it's time to go. Staged evacuations for tourists and some local residents are underway, and shelters are opening on the islands and on the mainland.
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Mudslides crushed cars, rivers and creeks roared into city streets, the skies dumped buckets of rain, and delta levees burst and flooded agricultural islands. Sound like this past week? A bit, perhaps. But it's been worse in previous years. In many years, as a matter of fact.
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Tri-State residents are rolling up their sleeves and doing what they can to help our neighbors recover from Sunday's devastating tornado.
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This radar image provided by the National Weather Service from the Lake Charles LA weather station shows Hurricane Rita's strongest winds coming ashore along the Texas-Louisiana at 1:47 a.m. EDT
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Heavenly Father - - We come to you together in thanksgiving for all your mercies and loving kindness towards us. We know that we can turn to you and You will lift us up and shelter us in the storms. We ask that you hide us in the palm of Your hand and that you will command the storm to be still - to be at peace.
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RESIDENTS are being evacuated from New Orleans again as Hurricane Rita tears across Florida on a track that could take it close to the devastated city. - - A state of emergency has been declared in parts of Louisiana as Rita, which has strengthened to a Category 2 hurricane, pounds the Florida Keys. Forecasters have said it could strengthen to a destructive Category 4 storm.
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MIAMI -- Rita whipped the Flordia Keys this morning with heavy rains and a strong storm surge as it became the ninth hurricane of the season. The center of the storm was located about 75 miles southeast of Key West and about 100 miles east-northeast of Havana, Cuba, according to the National Hurricane Center. It was moving toward the Gulf of Mexico where it was expected to pick up energy from the warm waters and eventually hit Texas by the end of the week.
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Miami Herald - 32 minutes ago -- BY MARTIN MERZER, CHARLES RABIN AND CARA BUCKLEY. Tourists streamed off the Florida Keys overnight and, once again, hurricane alerts blanketed South Florida this morning as Tropical Storm Rita -- the 17th named ...
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Flood-stricken New Orleans is overwhelmed by looting, rising waters and increasingly desperate people, two days after Hurricane Katrina struck. Army engineers trying to plug breached barriers with sandbags said it was "like dropping them into a black hole". The mayor of the low-lying Louisiana city warned it could be four months before people could return home.
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"Global warming has started to exacerbate the frequency and intensity of meteorological catastrophes". Now that a second season of devastating hurricanes is upon the United States, as well as unusual weather manifestations around the globe, speculation again arises that global warming is the culprit. For those who do not know the Lord, it is easy to imagine that the habits of mere mortals is enough to shake the very heavens.
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