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Ironically, we received our advance payment the day that we evacuated, so we're hoping it's there and it's safe, but the advance payment is all that we'll see for a few months,
Maxar collected new high-resolution satellite imagery yesterday [October 10] that reveals some of the storm damage caused by Hurricane Milton along the Gulf Coast of Florida with a focus on Tampa Bay, St. Petersburg, Sarasota and the nearby barrier islands,
Justin Cameron, senior imagery analyst at Maxar, told Newsweek Sadly, we have seen over the last two weeks, since Hurricane Helene, and now in the immediate aftermath of Milton, where people are playing political games,
There is no question it needs to be a serious wake-up call for everyone in terms of climate change,
Kristin Joyce, a 72-year-old interior designer, told AFP in Sarasota Bay as she surveyed the damage It is not easy to think you have everything and suddenly you have nothing,
said Lidier Rodriguez, who was forced to leave his flooded apartment near Tampa Bay Scary and heartbreaking at the same time, to see much damage and all things you really love just gone, but it’s only things, and we’re still here,
Hopefully, on January 20th you’re going to have somebody that’s really going to help you and help you like never before,
the former president said, referring to the presidential inauguration date They did find some people just outside dead, in a tree,
A nice impact of solar activity are the northern and southern lights,
Peter Gallagher, head of astronomy and astrophysics and director of the Dunsink Observatory at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, told Newsweek The affected infrastructure that is of most importance is large-scale power grids, without which modern society would not be able to function,
Brett Carter, an associate professor in space science at RMIT University in Australia, previously told Newsweek Systems that depend on low-Earth orbit satellites or High-Frequency communication may experience disruptions,
The geomagnetic field is likely to maintain G3-G4 (Strong to Severe) conditions into 11 Oct if the Bz component continues to sustain a southward orientation and connect well with Earths magnetic field. A gradual recovery is anticipated on 12 Oct, with G1 (Minor) geomagnetic storm levels likely in the early hours of the UTC day,
the SWPC said in a 3-day forecast advisory I have to stress that this is not a time for people to play politics,
In this crisis – like in so many issues that affect the people of our country – I think it so important that leadership recognises the dignity,
Harris, the Democratic party nominee for president after Biden dropped his re-election bid in July, said at a town hall in Las Vegas on Thursday night I’ve never seen a storm garner so much misinformation, we have just been putting out fires of wrong information everywhere,
said the CBS meteorologist Katie Nickolaou Get a life, man”.
Biden called the Republican election campaign “so damn un-American with the way they’re talking about this stuff” and added directly to Trump Murdering meteorologists won’t stop hurricanes. I can’t believe I just had to type that.”
They’ve let those people suffer unjustly,
The federal government ... has not done what you are supposed to be doing, in particular, with respect to North Carolina,
Our crews have been working safely and as quickly as possible through a number of challenges, including flooding, debris and other hazards that Milton left behind."
FPL spokesperson Jack Eble said