Even by harsh Alaska standards, this was a hard winter, as a storm track shifted north and stayed.
We'll bring you an update on the storm track too, but we'll begin in Haiti, hit hard by Hanna then again, by Ike.
They tend to maybe even cancel each other out a little bit as to some of the effects on where the storm track is going.
The White House said the storm was on track to be the second or third most costly storm in US history.
However, Oliva said the base's emergency center was standing down, as the storm's track seemed to put Parris Island out of harm's way.
In an effort to help displaced hurricane victims and their families, ad hoc communities of Internet users are using mapping technologies from Google to track storm damage, analyze aerial photos and try to make sense of what little information is available.
In an effort to help displaced hurricane victims and their families, ad hoc communities of Internet users are using mapping technologies from Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) to track storm damage, analyze aerial photos and try to make sense of what little information is available.
Dr Landsea then asked, for each of the century's big storms, what would happen if an identical storm with an identical track were to strike today?
The Weather Channel feels that the naming process makes for quicker media identification, especially via social media, allowing people to track the storm story fast and easily.
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"The Google crisis response team has assembled a Hurricane Sandy map to help you track the storm's progress and provide updated emergency information, " wrote Google software engineer Ka-Ping Yee on the firm's blog.
The predicted track takes the storm anywhere from Florida to Virginia between Friday and Saturday.
If the storm continues on its current track, evacuation calls could go out as early as this weekend, Jindal said.
And again, as we saw the track of the storm adjust we repositioned teams and we became increasingly concerned about possible impacts in the New England states.
The latest advisory from the National Hurricane Center says the track of the storm has shifted slightly to the west, making it a bit less likely the state will get hurricane-force gusts, but will still see high winds and a storm surge from high waves.
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The FEMA Administrator, Craig Fugate, and National Hurricane Center Director, Dr. Rick Knabb, briefed the President on the projected track and timing of the storm as well as steps being taken by the Administration to support potentially impacted states.
As predicted, the storm turned overnight and is continuing its northwesterly track.
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In the late 1980s we deployed the new Doppler radar, the WSD-88, which can actually track the movement of air within a storm (and therefore pinpoint a tornado vortex).
Motif Investing has put together a motif index to track rebuilding efforts along the path of the storm called Rebuilding After Sandy.
One reason the PATH has been so much slower to recover than the New York City subway is the relatively greater expanse of track area that was subjected to coastal flooding in the storm, said Stephen Kingsberry, the acting director of the PATH, on a recent visit to Exchange Place in Jersey City.
He says that Storm mutates as often as every 30 minutes, updating far faster than the scanners trying to track it.
As of Monday morning, the track looked bad for New Orleans but the forecast called for Isaac to remain a relatively weak Category 1 storm, which is far less likely to swamp the city than a stronger, bigger storm.
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