The National Weather Service Issues Severe Thunderstorm Warning
Lawton is one of several towns under severe thunderstorm warning capable of producing large hail, according to the National Weather Service.
Lawton is one of several towns under severe thunderstorm warning capable of producing large hail, according to the National Weather Service.
Breaking News- Two Tornadoes have touched grown in Dallas, TX, 20 minutes ago. Currently the entire Northern Texas is under Tornado warning.
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If you experience issues today with your cell phone or blackberry or any other means of electronic communication, it may not be your provider.
Here’s the dilemma: You notice that a particularly icy stretch of a public stairway is taking down just about every other pedestrian who tries to traverse it.
Do you, A), post a sign warning said pedestrians of the impending danger? Or, B), find a good vantage point and record all of the slipping and sliding?
Based on the video below, one pedestrian obviously selected “B.”
After a long hot Summer, we were all ready for a change of weather here in Oklahoma. We got it. We have had several days of rain over the last couple of months and now Old Man Winter is about to come a calling.
A social worker in a group home for the disabled almost lost his life trying to save residents when a tornado decimated much of Joplin, Missouri this spring. Now, his company’s insurance provider is denying him workman’s compensation.
Hurricane Irene may end up being one of the 10 costliest catastrophes in U.S. history. Industry experts currently put the storm’s damage at $7 billion to $10 billion; however, much of that destruction may not be covered by insurance because it was caused by flooding and not winds. Flooding is often excluded from standard insurance policies.
Cleanup efforts have begun in communities that were devastated by Hurricane Irene over the weekend. Although trucks and supplies from the Federal Emergency Management Agency are en route, access to some areas has been cut off by floodwaters that washed out or damaged roads and bridges.
“Irene was gonna land somewhere. We’re not Manhattan, our small streams quickly became big rivers,” Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin told The Brattleboro (Vt.) Reformer. “We’ve lost churches, homes and historic bridges. But we will rebuild.”
Despite the country’s diligent precautions, Hurricane Irene left a path of destruction in her wake. It was enough to even scare Spider-Man, who sounded a little intimidated by Irene during this interview with a local ABC reporter. Even superheroes need to evacuate sometimes.
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