Tag: Storm

Typhoon Mawar Lashes Guam: Latest Updates and Storm Path

Typhoon Mawar Lashes Guam: Latest Updates and Storm Path

Typhoon Mawar passed just north of Guam on Wednesday night, bringing hurricane-force winds, lightning, heavy rain and widespread power outages to nearly all of the U.S. Pacific territory.“This is kind of going to be a long night,” a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Guam said during a news briefing. “It is going to be scary. There is no electricity.”The storm, packing the force of a Category 4 hurricane, was the strongest to hammer Guam in years and could intensify further before weakening on Thursday, forecasters warned. The Guam Power Authority said that...

Tornadoes, Power Outages As Storm Crosses Texas, Louisiana

Tornadoes, Power Outages As Storm Crosses Texas, Louisiana

DALLAS (AP) — Tornadoes touched down in Texas and Louisiana as a powerful storm system that dumped heavy snow in California pushed through the Southern Plains and into the Deep South on Thursday, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of people and forcing the cancellation of hundreds of flights into and out of the Dallas-area.Wind gusts of over 70 mph (112 kph) were reported in Texas as tornado watches were issued into Thursday night in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. National Weather Service teams planned to head out Friday to survey areas for likely...

Anti-Semitic protesters storm Ben Platt’s ‘Parade’ on Broadway

Anti-Semitic protesters storm Ben Platt’s ‘Parade’ on Broadway

Ben Platt spoke out Wednesday after a group of “really disgusting” Neo-Nazis protested the musical “Parade” outside the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre. The Tony-winning “Parade” tells the true story of Jewish factory worker Leo Frank, who was wrongfully imprisoned in 1913 Georgia after being accused of raping and murdering a 13-year-old girl. Previews began on Tuesday for the revival show, which officially opens on March 16. A video posted on Twitter by The Forward’s engagement editor Jake Wasserman shows anti-Semitic protesters, who call themselves The National Socialist Movement, shouting hateful rhetoric. “You want the...

Massive winter storm leads to 3,400-plus flight cancellations in U.S.

Massive winter storm leads to 3,400-plus flight cancellations in U.S.

Tens of millions of Americans endured bone-chilling temperatures, blizzard conditions, power outages and canceled holiday gatherings Friday from a winter storm that forecasters said was nearly unprecedented in its scope, exposing 60% of the population to some sort of winter weather advisory or warning. More than 200 million people — about 60% of the U.S. population — were under some form of winter weather advisory or warning on Friday, the National Weather Service said. The weather service’s map “depicts one of the greatest extents of winter weather warnings and advisories ever,” forecasters said in a statement...

Meet Maz, one of the protagonists behind the “Brazilian Storm”

Meet Maz, one of the protagonists behind the “Brazilian Storm”

Not many artists had a bigger 2022 than Maz, his “Banho de Folhas” remix became a worldwide hit, recieving strong supports from incredible artists such as Black Coffee, Lee Burridge, Damian Lazarus, Matador, Stephan Jolk, D-Nox, Gorje Hewek, Dosem, Durante, Simon Doty, Enamour, to mention a few. “Banho de Folhas” took the Brazilian sound identity all around the Globe and consolidated Maz’s name internationally. The Brazilian Afro House song broke the EDM bubble and reached international pop stars such as Drake; he was recorded dancing to the song in Saint Tropez during a Keinemusik...

Diesel market in perfect storm as prices surge and supplies dwindle

Diesel market in perfect storm as prices surge and supplies dwindle

An aerial view of Phillips 66 oil refinery is seen in Linden, New Jersey, United States on May 11, 2022.Anadolu Agency | Anadolu Agency | Getty ImagesA perfect storm is taking place in the diesel market, with dwindling diesel reserves, a drought on the Mississippi River pushing more product to rail and truck, and a possible rail strike leading to a surge in prices that is expected to continue.Diesel prices have increased by 33% for November deliveries."The national average price for diesel today is $5.30 per gallon and is expected to go up 15...

Perfect Storm Forming Under Biden Recession, Puts Millions of Jobs at Risk: Report

Perfect Storm Forming Under Biden Recession, Puts Millions of Jobs at Risk: Report

Coming on the tail of the disastrous government response to the coronavirus, with its mandates, lockdowns, and job loss, economists fear that millions more will lose their jobs by next year as small businesses begin to fail in even greater numbers. A June report from Kabbage, the small business lender owned by American Express, found that about 20 percent of small businesses don’t think they can survive the Biden downturn. This looming small business crash coincides with a housing crisis, with soaring mortgage rates that have not been seen since the housing crash of...

Israeli Police Storm Jerusalem Mosque After Rock-Throwing Incident With Palestinian Youths

Israeli Police Storm Jerusalem Mosque After Rock-Throwing Incident With Palestinian Youths

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police in full riot gear stormed a sensitive Jerusalem holy site sacred to Jews and Muslims on Friday after Palestinian youths hurled stones at a gate where they were stationed.The renewed violence at the site, which is sacred to Jews and Muslims, came despite Israel temporarily halting Jewish visits, which are seen by the Palestinians as a provocation. Medics said more than two dozen Palestinians were wounded before the clashes subsided hours later.Palestinians and Israeli police have regularly clashed at the site over the last week at a time of...

Camp Cope Triumphantly Weather The Storm

Camp Cope Triumphantly Weather The Storm

By Matt Mitchell Six years after ascending beyond Victoria, Australia’s Footscray Station scene and releasing their fearless, eponymous debut, Camp Cope members Georgia Maq, Kelly-Dawn Hellmrich, and Sarah “Thomo” Thompson are watching the world give them the long-overdue respect they deserve. A week before I met with the Melbourne rock trio over Zoom, they released their second collaboration with local radio station Triple J. It fared much better among audiences, especially on social media, than their previous effort in late 2016; YouTube viewers, often men, rushed to the comments to disavow the then relatively...

To my calm in the storm that is mental illness, from your best friend Ariana Godoy

To my calm in the storm that is mental illness, from your best friend Ariana Godoy

Below, she writes to a friend who has stood by her side in one of her darkest of times. Because you're my best friend, I think you already know what I'm going to say. You know my story. You know me down to my core. But I'm going to say it all anyway. At this point, I haven't seen you in person in four years. Being on separate countries was never part of the plan, but I'm grateful that our friendship remains strong despite the distance. It seems I've found more reasons to be...