EARTHQUAKE in CHINA, COSTA RICA, MISERY AFTER ISAAC – New York
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EAST COAST HIT
NYC cleans up from 2
twisters after Eastern storms
NEW YORK (AP) — Strong storms that pummeled the East Coast spawned
at least two damaging tornadoes in New York City, flooded the streets of some
New England towns and left tens of thousands in the dark in the Washington, D.C.,
area.
No serious injuries were
reported when a twister hit a beachfront neighborhood Saturday on the edge of New York City and a second, stronger tornado followed moments
later about 10 miles away. Residents got advance notice, but still the storm
took people by surprise.
"I was showing videos of tornadoes to my 4-year-old on my phone, and two
minutes later, it hit," said Breezy
Point neighborhood
resident Peter Maloney. "Just like they always say, it sounded like a
train."
The unsettled weather, part of a cold front that crossed over the
Eastern Seaboard, toppled trees and power lines and damaged buildings as it
went. Wind gusts reached 70 mph in some places.
Tornado-like funnel clouds
were reported in Fairfax
County, Va., and in Prince George's County, Md., but had not been
confirmed by Saturday evening, meteorologist Andy Woodcock of the National Weather Service said.
One person suffered minor injuries during a partial stage collapse
at the Rosslyn Jazz Festival in Arlington County, Va., and six people were
evacuated from a Washington apartment building when a tree fell on it. Fairfax
County officials reported three home cave-ins because of downed trees, a water
rescue in the Potomac River and dozens of electrical wires down.
As of 10 p.m., about 58,000
customers were without electricity in northern Virginia, according to Dominion
Virginia Power. Pepco reported outages to roughly 50,000 customers in the
District of Columbia and Maryland's Prince George's and Montgomery counties.
BGE reported about 9,300 outages, most in Prince George's
and Anne Arundel counties.
In New York City, videos taken by bystanders showed a funnel
sucking up water, then sand, and then small pieces of buildings as the first
tornado moved through the Breezy Point section of the Rockaway peninsula in
Queens.
At the Breezy Point Surf Club,
it ripped the roofs off rows of cabanas, scattered deck chairs and left a heavy
metal barbecue and propane tank sitting in the middle of a softball field, at
least 100 yards from any home.
"It picked up picnic benches. It picked up Dumpsters,"
said the club's general manager, Thomas Sullivan.
In the storm's wake, broken flower pots, knocked-down fences and
smashed windows littered the community of seaside bungalows. Half an hour
later, the weather was beautiful, but Sullivan had to close the club to clean
up the damage.
The roof of Bob O'Hara's
cabana was torn off, leaving tubes of sunscreen, broken beer bottles and an old
TV set exposed to the elements.
"We got a new sunroof," said O'Hara, who has spent
summer weekends at the Breezy Point club for his entire 52 years. "The TV
was getting thrown out anyway," he added.
The second twister hit to the
northwest, in the Canarsie section of Brooklyn but also near the water, about
seven minutes later. The National Weather Service said winds were up to 110
miles per hour, and several homes and trees were damaged.
Tornadoes are traditionally rare in the New York City area, but
they have occurred with regularity in recent years. A small tornado uprooted
trees on Long Island last month.
In 2010, a September storm spawned two tornadoes that knocked down
thousands of trees and blew off a few rooftops in Brooklyn and Queens. A small
tornado struck the same year in the Bronx. In 2007, a more powerful tornado
damaged homes in Brooklyn and Staten Island.
More than 1,100 customers lost power Saturday in New York City.
Across New York state, in Buffalo, strong winds blew
roofing off some buildings and sent bricks falling into the street. The city of
Albany canceled the evening portion of an outdoor jazz festival because of the
threat of storms.
More than 6,000 customers were without power in East in Warren
County, another 1,500 or so lost power in other areas upstate, and about 3,000
customers in the Hudson Valley were affected.
With wind gusts reaching up to 60 mph, the storms moved into New
England, flooding roads, toppling trees and snapping power lines.
For about three hours, the storm barraged western Massachusetts,
western Connecticut and part of New Hampshire before tapering off near Rhode
Island, but not before flooding roads in East Providence, the National Weather
Service said.
In Fall River, Mass., floodwaters reached up to car windshields
and stalled out dozens of vehicles. A daycare center was evacuated and St.
Anne's Hospital emergency room flooded.
In New Hampshire, television
station WMUR reported 4,000 power outages. The storm reached every county in
Vermont, all within a two-hour window, but mercifully left the state without
any extraordinary damage, according to early reports.
Weather Service meteorologist
John Cannon said the storms by late Saturday had come and gone in Maine, where
the concern then became high swells of 4 to 8 feet on the beaches and rip
currents that would make it dangerous to be out on the water Sunday.
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Quakes kill at least 64
in mountainous SW China
BEIJING (AP) — Twin earthquakes and a spate of aftershocksstruck southwestern
China on Friday, toppling
thousands of houses and sending boulders cascading across roads. At least 64
people were killed and hundreds injured in the remote mountainous area, and
more than 100,000 residents were evacuated.
Damage was
preventing rescuers from reaching outlying towns, and communications were
disrupted after the midday quakes hit along the borders of Guizhou and Yunnan
provinces, a rural region where some of China's poorest people live.
The first
5.6-magnitude quake struck just before 11:30 a.m. and was followed by an
equally strong quake shortly after noon, joined by dozens of aftershocks.
Though of moderate strength, the quakes were shallow, which often causes more
damage.
Hardest hit
was Yiliang County, where all but one of the deaths occurred, according to the
Yunnan provincial government's official website. Another 715 people in the area
were injured. Yiliang's high population density, shoddy building construction
and propensity for landslides were blamed for the relatively high death toll.
Nearby
Cities
1.
1km (1mi) SW of Jiaokui, China
2.
39km (24mi) NE of Zhaotong, China
3.
84km (52mi) NNW of Weining, China
4.
120km (75mi) SW of Xunchang, China
5.
750km (466mi) NNW of Ha Noi, Vietnam
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Links
3.
M7.6 - 10km NE of Hojancha,
Costa Rica
Event
Time
1.
2012-09-05 14:42:10 UTC
2.
2012-09-05 08:42:10 UTC-06:00 at epicenter
3.
2012-09-05 10:42:10 UTC-04:00 system time
Nearby
Cities
1.
10km (6mi) NE of Hojancha, Costa Rica
2.
11km (7mi) ESE of Nicoya, Costa Rica
3.
30km (19mi) ESE of Santa Cruz, Costa Rica
4.
44km (27mi) SW of Canas, Costa Rica
5.
140km
(87mi) W of San Jose,
Costa Rica
Prior Event:
Magnitude 4.6 COSTA
RICA
Tuesday, August 07, 2012 at 16:10:58 UTC
Hurricane
Isaac Power Outages Remain Across Louisiana (PHOTOS)
NEW ORLEANS — Much of a finger-shaped parish
southeast of New Orleans was still covered with floodwater Sunday and more than
200,000 people across Louisiana still didn't have any power, five days after
Isaac ravaged the state. Thousands of evacuees remained at shelters or bunked
with friends or relatives.
No Water or Power Means
Days of Misery for Louisiana
At least six
storm-related deaths have been reported
People stand by an intentional levy breach
created to alleviate trapped floodwater in Braithwaite, La. on Thursday. (AP)
BELLE CHASE, La. (AP) - Floodwaters from Isaac receded, power came on and businesses opened Friday ahead of the holiday weekend, the beginning of what is certain to be a slow recovery for Louisiana.
Newly-nominated Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney visited flood-ravaged communities, and President Barack Obama said he would arrive Monday, appearances this part of the country is all too familiar with after Katrina and the Gulf oil spill.
Meanwhile, the leftovers from the storm pushed into the drought-stricken Midwest, knocking out power to thousands of people in Arkansas. At least six people were killed in the storm in Mississippi Louisiana.
BELLE CHASE, La. (AP) - Floodwaters from Isaac receded, power came on and businesses opened Friday ahead of the holiday weekend, the beginning of what is certain to be a slow recovery for Louisiana.
Newly-nominated Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney visited flood-ravaged communities, and President Barack Obama said he would arrive Monday, appearances this part of the country is all too familiar with after Katrina and the Gulf oil spill.
Meanwhile, the leftovers from the storm pushed into the drought-stricken Midwest, knocking out power to thousands of people in Arkansas. At least six people were killed in the storm in Mississippi Louisiana.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — When drought made Fourth of July fireworks a fire
hazard, organizers in Chesterfield, Mo., decided to try again Labor Day
weekend. Go figure: Now rain from the remnants ofHurricane
Isaac has forced
them to cancel again.
The storm is
expected to drop several inches of rain over parts of the Midwest this weekend,
and residents are preparing for a soggy holiday with mixed emotions. People in
drought-stricken areas have been begging, pleading and praying for rain. But
did it have to ruin the end-of-summer party?
"Whoever
thought we'd have a hurricane challenge this event again?" city of
Chesterfield spokeswoman Libbey Tucker said of the ill-fated fireworks display.
"Somebody joked that next time it will be snow that we'll have to cancel
for."
What's left
of Isaac has been plodding north into states that badly need moisture. The
worst drought in decades stretches from Ohio west to California. Isaac will
move straight through some of the hardest hit states: Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana
and Ohio. Lesser rain is expected to the west in portions of Oklahoma and
Kansas.
State
emergency agencies, city and county leaders and utility crews have been
preparing for the deluge. In Indianapolis, a line of about 100 cars snaked
from a Department of Public Works lot where free sandbags were being
distributed Friday. Residents could pick up bags filled with 30 to 50 pounds of
sand.
Jenny Bland,
50, of Indianapolis, waited in line more than 90 minutes so she could pick up
bags for her family and elderly neighbors.
"People
are taking this very seriously," Bland said.
Fears were
well-founded in Arkansas, where some areas have had more than 6 inches of rain
since Thursday, and thousands lost power. Tornado warnings were
issued for several counties, but no touchdowns were confirmed late Friday and
there were no reports of injuries or damage.
Brian Smith,
senior forecaster for the National Weather Service in North Little Rock, said remnants of the
hurricane were still affecting central and northeast Arkansas late Friday.
Showers and thunderstorms were possible in the northern half of the state
Saturday, he said.
Tornado
warnings extended into southern Missouri on Friday, and flash flood warnings were common.
Farther
north, the concern — or hope, depending on your perspective — was mostly rain.
"Overall,
this rainfall is much needed and much appreciated," meteorologist Jayson
Gosselin, of the National Weather Service in suburban St. Louis, said late
Friday. "It will definitely help our drought conditions for Illinois,
Missouri and Arkansas to the south."
He said
there hadn't been any threats of flash flooding or river flooding.
"Right
now, with it being so dry we can take quite a bit of water," Gosselin
said.
Missouri and
Illinois should see steady rain into Sunday, forecasters said.
"The
fact that the rain is going to be spread over probably two days, that's
good," said meteorologist Jim Kramper, also with the National Weather
Service in suburban St. Louis. "We're looking at rainfall deficits of 9 to
12 inches in this state so this isn't going to solve the problem, but it'll put
a dent into it."
The
downside: The rain was likely to make a washout of a usually festive weekend,
with some events called off and others moved inside.
Dozens of
high school football games were canceled, postponed or rescheduled. College
teams, however, were prepared to play.
"That
field's not going to be slick, and we don't have a Plan B," said Arkansas
coach John L. Smith, whose Razorbacks prepared to host Jacksonville State on
Saturday night in Fayetteville. Besides, he added, "The sun always shines
on the Hogs."
In
Champaign, Ill., Thomas Maton planned to put his wallet and cellphone in
plastic bags and wear clothes he doesn't mind getting soaked for the Illini
opener Saturday against Western Michigan. He figured he'd sat through worse,
including games in sub-freezing temperatures.
"There's
a certain point in your mind where you cross a line, 'We're stepping out of
sanity here,'" Maton said. "But it's like, what the heck, it's two to
three hours."
The weather
put a damper on tourism. Oleg Shneper, manager of the Extended Stay America
hotel near Kings Island amusement park in suburban Cincinnati, received several
cancellations because of the weather.
"People
have called to say they can't get here because the rain is keeping them from
getting out of airports," he said.
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