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High tides, typical flooding so far in H.B.
A 1.3-mile stretch of Pacific Coast Highway, from Warner Avenue to Anderson Street in Sunset Beach, was closed for more than 2 hours Thursday as it flooded with high tides and steady rainfall. Caltrans workers responded to the stretch at about 8:30 a.m....Tags: California Department of Transportation
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Natural Perspectives: Current situation more like 'global weirding'
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Climatic Data Center's "State of the Climate: Global Analysis for Annual 2010" makes for some pretty sobering reading. Vic and I waded through the nine-page document over the hot Fourth...Tags: International Travel, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Global Change, Weather Reports, Energy Resources
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Natural Perspectives: Adventures, photo ops are close to home
Vic and I had an out-of-town guest last week, Harold Drabkin from Bangor, Maine. We were friends with Harold back in our graduate school days at Wesleyan University, nearly 40 years ago. We've seen Harold only a couple of times since then. It's amazing to...Tags: Maine, Gardens and Parks, Monuments and Heritage Sites, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Environmental Issues
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Greer's OC: Sample drinks for a cause
Join Second Chance Pet Adoptions of Huntington Beach for a wine and beer tasting fundraiser from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday at Brix Wine Bar in Sunset Beach. The party includes wine and beer tastings, plus snacks. A tax-deductible donation costs $35 per person,...Tags: Politics, Mushrooms, Potatoes, Restaurants, Arugula
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Conservancy, county look to block trash from wetlands
A Huntington Beach environmental nonprofit has partnered with the county in an attempt to block trash from flowing into the ocean through a pair of flood control channels. The Huntington Beach Wetlands Conservancy, a group dedicated to restoring the...Tags: Santa Ana, Los Angeles, Wetlands, Natural Resources, Huntington Beach
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Storm causes street closures, debris clean up, power outage
Huntington Beach received the heaviest rain of the year Tuesday night causing flooding, fallen trees and 60 tons of debris to be washed onto streets and parks. Surf City received nearly 2 inches of rain Tuesday night, adding to the more than 7 inches the...Tags: Weather, Central Park, Disasters and Accidents
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Natural Perspectives: A wet and wild weekend adventure
Vic and I hope that your newspaper arrived dry this morning after six days of that darned pineapple express. We feel like we've been living under a big fire hose. Six solid days of rain belong in Seattle, not here in sunny Southern California. We're sure...Tags: Career and Workplace, Holidays, Disasters and Accidents, Religious Festivals, Employees
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April flood has brought May headaches
It's been a month since rain drenched the region, turning communities that had never seen major flooding before into national disaster areas. The downpour started April 17, setting records for rainfall. Some of Chicago's suburbs recorded more than 7...
Tags: FEMA, Pat Quinn, Barack Obama, American Red Cross, John F. Kennedy
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New Jersey to use federal funds to buy homes that are flood prone
New Jersey will use $300 million in federal aid to buy out about 1,300 Hurricane Sandy-damaged and flood-prone homes in the state. Gov. Chris Christie said in a news release that the state initially will target houses that have flooded repeatedly,...Tags: FEMA, Labor Day, Government Aid, Chris Christie, Hurricane Sandy (2012)
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Darien looks for flood solutions
Darien officials will be using input from residents to determine where to direct flood-proofing efforts going forward. After April's flooding, city leaders reached out to residents through a survey, asking for their input on how their properties were...Tags: Television Industry, Satellite and Cable Service
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Insurance stalls revival
There were 11,256 bottles of wine in the cellar of Antoine's Restaurant on the morning of Aug. 29 when Hurricane Katrina struck, some of them rare, most of them expensive and all of them ruined when the power failed, the air conditioning died and the...Tags: Mercedes-Benz Superdome, Corporate Officers, Insurance, Northbrook, Natural Disasters
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Suspicions fire racial tensions
Gina Blandin has a theory about what caused the flooding disaster that befell New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina struck last August, an idea that has little to do with engineering studies or physical evidence and everything to do with the poisonous...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Politics, Brookings Institution, Houston Chronicle, Emergency Incidents
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