All the while, many northeastern states and parts of southern Canada were experiencing their wettest year on record -- the most severe flooding coming in the wake of Hurricane Irene in late August and Tropical Storm Lee which followed quickly on her heels.
In all, 13 nursing homes are under criminal investigation for failure to evacuate their patients before the Category 4 storm made landfall August 29.
August 1972 saw a solar storm that is legendary at Nasa.
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The President today declared a major disaster exists in the State of Vermont and ordered Federal aid to supplement state and local recovery efforts in the area affected by Tropical Storm Irene beginning on August 29, 2011, and continuing.
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There were immediate signs of chafing at the Federal Emergency Management Agency in the aftermath of the storm's landfall on August 29.
As the storm whacked the city in August 2005, a small group of journalists holed up in a hot storage room deep inside the newspaper's building on Howard Avenue in the shadow of the Superdome.
Amid a bitter political storm over the issue, on August 13th the prime minister, Julia Gillard, performed an abrupt U-turn.
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And speaking of things that go, the U.S. auto industry may in fact offer President Obama the only dependable port in a re-gathering economic storm when car makers post their August sales results early next week: Prognosticators believe the sales snapshot will show an auto industry that is still strongly on track toward its third consecutive year of double-digit sales gains.
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Hurricane Andrew in 1992 was devastating, but it was also the first named storm of that year -- in August.
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Metal scaffolding supporting the stage lights fell onto a crowd of fans and workers as a storm swept through the Indianapolis fairgrounds on August 13, 2011, right before Sugarland was to perform.
As far back as Friday, August 26, the National Hurricane Center was predicting the storm could be a Category 4 hurricane at landfall, with New Orleans directly in its path.
As of Sunday August 28, 2011, Hurricane Irene was downgraded to Tropical Storm Irene.
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In August, an announcement by the U.S. Geological Survey triggered a storm of uncertainty in the natural gas industry.
Once a Category 5 storm, Katrina had weakened to a Category 3 storm with 127 mph winds when it made landfall on the morning of August 29, 2005, between Grand Isle, Louisiana, and the mouth of Mississippi River.
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And Bale, who volleyed a remarkable goal in Spurs' 2-1 win at Stoke in August is being chased by Europe's biggest clubs after taking the Premier League by storm - despite White Hart lane boss Harry Redknapp insisting he is not for sale.
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