Also on Monday, the National Hurricane Center said that Eugene became the fifth hurricane of the eastern Pacific season.
The frequency of major hurricane strikes during the past several decades is only two-thirds the frequency of major hurricane strikes during the first half of the twentieth century.
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Earlier in the day, FEMA Adminstrator Craig Fugate and National Hurricane Center Director Dr. Rick Knabb briefed President Obama on the expected track for the hurricane and the preparations underway to provide relief efforts.
Sunday is a light air travel day, but by Monday the effects of the furloughs should start to "snowball, " creating an air travel mess the equivalent of having a "Hurricane Sandy in the North and Hurricane Katrina in the South, " said Lee Moak, president of the pilots union.
"Some strengthening is possible during the next 48 hours and Ernesto could become a hurricane during the next day or so, " the hurricane center said of Ernesto at 8 p.m.
We don't bad talk about the hurricane because, like the hurricane, something bad happened.
It's kind of like, marriages that were on the edge prior to the hurricane, a lot of them teetered over the edge after the hurricane and they've decided to end the marriages.
Gustav is the second major hurricane of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season.
The National Hurricane Center reports that the past 40 years have seen the fewest major hurricane strikes since at least the mid-1800s.
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"We're becoming very concerned that as it moves in the gulf, even though it will weaken over the peninsula, it will have a very good chance to restrengthen into a hurricane over the Gulf of Mexico, " said Max Mayfield, director of the hurricane center.
It was the deadliest hurricane in the northeastern U.S. in 40 years and the second-costliest in the nation's history, a recent National Hurricane Center report said.
However, unlike the hurricane, the fiscal cliff is not likely to smack us all at once.
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It's the area worst affected by the hurricane and the floods that came with it.
The hurricane slammed the Gulf Coast in 2005 and killed 1, 833 people, directly or indirectly, in five states.
Between the earthquake, the tornadoes, the hurricane, the debt ceiling and the stock market we could all use some good news.
Even as communities of the Eastern seaboard recover from the hurricane, the country as a whole continues to face the challenge of economic recovery.
Google's interactive crisis map of the hurricane shows the predicted path of the storm, the affected areas and links to local weather reports and warnings.
There were fewer cars and people than usual, but far more than one might expect, given that the hurricane was the largest tropical system measured in the Atlantic.
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In an address to the nation from New Orleans Thursday evening, the president outlined a massive reconstruction plan to restore areas devastated by the hurricane and the flooding that followed.
This year marks the first time in recorded history that a tropical storm has formed in both the east Pacific basin and Atlantic basin before the official start of hurricane season, the Hurricane Center said.
The long-term forecast track from the hurricane center showed Katrina weakening and crossing the Florida peninsula Friday, then moving out over the Gulf of Mexico and sweeping north toward the hurricane-weary northern Gulf Coast.
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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Townsend promises before the next hurricane season the Federal Emergency Management Agency will have a better system in place.
This might be the worst hurricane in the history of New York.
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Once you've stepped into the intense hurricane of the playoffs, it's hard to spend a few minutes of calm in the eye.
From the date of the August hurricane through the end of that year it was possible for people to deduct up to 100% of their AGI for cash donations made to public charities.
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Since this term is totally without meaning, she can then claim that the latest forest fire, the latest hurricane, the latest drought, flood, snow, cold snap, heat wave, or tornado were cause by man, and that scientist X said so.
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On the verge of a four day rally, oil futures have gained on the prospects of an OPEC-IEA stand-off, falling stockpiles in the U.S. ahead of peak gasoline consumption given the Fourth of July holiday, and the first hurricane of the Atlantic season, Tropical Storm Arlene, hitting the coast of Mexico.
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The last category one hurricane to hit the state was Hurricane Bob in 1991.
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And by all accounts, in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy the area can only be likened to a war zone.
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