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One dead, thousands without power after storms hit U.S. Midwest

2013-06-22 20:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: One woman is dead and more than 200,000 homes and businesses are without power in the upper Midwest on Saturday after severe thunderstorms struck parts of the Dakotas, Minnesota, and Wisconsin with damaging winds, lightning and baseball-sized hail. The storms developed in the Dakotas on Friday and powered through Minnesota into Wisconsin, producing wind gusts up to 85 mph and large hailstones, some in excess of 4 inches in diameter, as well as short-lived tornadoes, said Brynn Kerr, a meteorologist...

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Storms leave scattered power outages in Georgia

2013-06-18 10:36:17| Energy - Topix.net

A line of strong thunderstorms moving through a large part of north Georgia left scattered power outages early Monday morning.

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Nearly 100,000 still without power after storms

2013-06-14 15:43:48| Energy - Topix.net

Georgia Power officials nearly 100,000 customers remained without power early Friday morning after a system of severe thunderstorms slammed into the state.

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Bloomberg details $20B vision for defending NYC against storms

2013-06-13 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Environment Health: Mayor Michael Bloomberg yesterday proposed spending upward of $20 billion on adaptation programs and projects in a sweeping 430-page report meant to stand as New York City's defense blueprint against extreme weather and climate change. In what was his most significant address on the subject, the independent mayor said he was hoping to continue or start work on no less than 250 recommendations related to storms, flooding and global warming before leaving office at the end of this year. He vowed...

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