Month: August 2020

Texans stepped up again to help each other and neighbors to the east impacted by Hurricane Laura. AUSTIN, Texas — As sure as the sun rises, Texans stepped up again to help each other and neighbors to the east impacted by Hurricane Laura. Texas A&M students and faculty with the Veterinary Emergency Response Team will care for animals. Houston group CrowdSource uses social media pull together relief efforts. RELATED: Hurricane Laura: Volunteer rescue organization asking…

The upshot of climate change is that everyone alive is destined to experience unprecedented disasters. The most powerful hurricanes, the most intense wildfires, the most prolonged heat waves and the most frequent outbreaks of new diseases are all in our future. Records will be broken, again and again. But the predicted destruction is still shocking when it unfolds all at the same time. This week, Americans are living through concurrent disasters. In California, more than…

The storm shattered glass windows, ripped roofs off of buildings, and toppled trees and power lines. McNeese State University’s basketball arena was ripped apart. LAKE CHARLES, La. — Hurricane Laura ravaged the Lake Charles, La. and coastal towns nearby after 150-mile-per-hour winds, storm surge, and rain tore through the area when the Category 4 hurricane made landfall. The violent conditions tossed boats like toys, ripped roofs off buildings, toppled trees onto homes, power lines, and…

ORANGE, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – Hundreds of power trucks are filling the parking lots of Orange, Texas Thursday evening, nearly 24 hours after Hurricane Laura made landfall. However, as residents slowly return, many are still figuring out just how much damage was done amid power outages extending across the coastal region. After days of loud warnings and a night of deafening winds, the only sound on some parts of the Gulf Coast Thursday came from rattling…

https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/article/Alert-National-Hurricane-Center-Laura-weakens-15520873.php Updated 10:10 pm CDT, Thursday, August 27, 2020 MIAMI (AP) — National Hurricane Center: Laura weakens to a tropical depression as it moves over Arkansas amid ongoing flood threat.

ORANGE — Robert Walker planned to ride out Hurricane Laura, just as he had with most other big storms that over the years have repeatedly pummeled this region of refineries on the banks of the Sabine River bordering Louisiana. As a drainage foreman for the city, he is responsible for clearing floodwater from streets and is considered key — particularly with Laura’s initial predicted storm surge of at least 10 feet. But late Wednesday afternoon,…

“We dodged a bullet,” Gov. Abbott said. “But that doesn’t help those whose homes have been hit, whose businesses have been hit.” ORANGE, Texas — Gov. Greg Abbott and other state leaders toured areas of East Texas affected by Hurricane Laura. The storm made landfall early Thursday morning near Cameron, Louisiana, as a Category 4 storm. “We dodged a bullet,” Gov. Abbott said. “But that doesn’t help those whose homes have been hit, whose businesses…