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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Higher energy demand and rising oil prices boosted oil-producing countries, while the continuing surge in high-tech demand benefited Asia and North America.
Strong winds, extremely low pressure and a storm surge during the high tides could cause flooding.
However, the destructive potential of the storm surge was record high: 5.8 on a scale of 0 to 6.
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There's a real possibility of flooding, storm surge, and high winds.
The result, in America and elsewhere (the reform has been widely copied in Europe), has been a surge in new high-tech businesses founded by academics.
Surrogacy UK has recently recorded a surge of interest following high-profile surrogacy stories concerning Elton John and Nicole Kidman.
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It'd be hard to find a hotter stock than the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the world's largest open-outcry derivatives market that some have called the " Google " of the financial sector because of its high-flying price surge.
It'd be hard to find a hotter stock than the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (nyse: CME - news - people ), the world's largest open-outcry derivatives market that some have called the " Google " of the financial sector because of its high-flying price surge.
The worst hit area is Plaquemines Parish, which juts out into the Gulf of Mexico, and where the storm surge overtopped an 8-foot-high, 18-mile levee, flooding an estimated 800 homes and forcing residents onto their roofs.
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Power lines are extremely hostile places for data signals, with high levels of electronic noise and an obstacle course of transformers, surge arrestors and splices that create a huge impedance to the free flow of high-frequency signals.
Mr Clinton ended up presiding over the high-tech boom and a surge in the number of small businesses.
Voter turnout across the country was high, he added, and the late surge a "national phenomenon".
Stokes made a surge into the Dons penalty area but hit his angled strike high and wide shortly before the half-time interval.
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Many High Street retailers had reported a last-minute surge in shoppers the last weekend before Christmas, and bumper Boxing Day sales, following what had otherwise been a fairly quiet run-up to Christmas, not helped by the rain.
The money has built up because of a surge in inflows of foreign cash that also has pushed the yuan to a record high this week.
However, much of the surge in debt was the combined result of the government's deficit and the high interest rates needed to defend an overvalued exchange rate.
The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, situated in the heart of America's farm country, concluded earlier this year that the surge in farmland prices had been driven by a combination of low interest rates and high commodity prices.
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Following high-profile mass killings in the United States, there often is a surge in news coverage about gun control.
The National Weather Service updated its storm-surge model to take into account larger and slower-moving storms and include better elevation and high tide data last year.
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Deckers Outdoor Corp. (DECK) is riding high today, after the company boosted its fourth-quarter guidance due to a surge in popularity for its UGG brand footwear.
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The high prices fetched for copper, gold and rare-earth minerals are leading to a surge in interest in mining the ocean floor.
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The surge in commodity prices underpins the Canadian unit and has driven the unit to a four-year high against the greenback.
The Nikkei was helped higher by another surge in major index constituent Fast Retailing, which jumped 8.1% to a fresh all-time high.
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