New York City "Flood Rat" takes the internet by storm
9/19/2018, 1:57:42 AMRodent can be seen inside a New York City subway station as water pours in from a rainstorm Tuesday ✔ Move over pizza rat -- there's another rodent that has captured the internet's heart ✔ Reddit user JacksonCheeseburger posted a video clip showing the four-legged creature taking refuge in a New York City subway station inundated with rain water during Tuesday's storm ✔ As one Reddit user wrote, I hate rats but I do feel bad for him ✔ Take a look at flood rat in action in the video below (mobile app users click here):
‘We need help’: N.C. towns plead for dam, levee upgrades after second major flood in two years
9/19/2018, 12:07:25 AMDevastated by Hurricane Matthew and now Florence, low-income areas say they can’t afford the repairs needed to withstand the next storm. ✔ By Sarah Kaplan Sarah Kaplan Reporter for Speaking of Science Email Bio Follow September 18 at 7:47 PM LUMBERTON, N.C ✔ Federal funding to elevate or buy up homes in Lumberton’s flood plain had barely been distributed by the time this hurricane season rolled around
North Carolina Gov Pleads With Storm Evacuees To Be Patient
9/19/2018, 3:38:15 AMThe death toll from the storm rose to at least 37 in three states Tuesday, with 29 fatalities in North Carolina. ✔ Jason Miczek / Reuters WILMINGTON, N.C ✔ I know it was hard to leave home, and it is even harder to wait and wonder whether you even have a home to go back to, Gov ✔ An olive-drab military forklift moved around huge pallets loaded with supplies ✔ In a bright spot, the Lumber River appeared to be falling in hard-hit Lumberton, about 70 miles (110 kilometers) inland
UK weather forecast: 'Deadly' 80mph Storm Ali to DEVASTATE Britain with 'FLYING DEBRIS'
9/19/2018, 3:21:12 AMTHE UK is set to be bombarded by gales of 80mph as Storm Ali hurdles across the Atlantic bringing torrential rain and posing a “danger to life”. ✔ The UK is set to be bombarded by gales of 80mph (Image: WXCHARTS/GETTY) Meteorologist Alex Deakin warned: Storm Ali is on the way ✔ The Met Office has been forced to issue an amber warning (Image: GETTY) Power cuts may occur and some roads and bridges are likely to close (Image: MET OFFICE) While the central belts of Scotland could see winds of 80 mph
At least 1.7 million chickens dead in flooding from Florence, major poultry producer says
9/19/2018, 1:30:52 AMApproximately six million more chickens were isolated by Hurricane Florence flood waters at 30 farms, Sanderson Farms announced Monday. ✔ The overall cost to the state's agriculture is still unknown ✔ Hog production is another large industry in the state, but the N.C ✔ Pork Council says mortality figures are not yet available ✔ Andrew Nelles, The Tennessean, via USA TODAY NETWORK Fullscreen Last SlideNext Slide
Picking up the pieces after last year's Mexico City earthquake | Pictures | Reuters
9/19/2018, 1:44:13 AMEnrique Alcantara irons shirts in his tent near the site where his building was damaged by the devastating earthquake in Mexico City last year, September 12, 2018. A year after the deadly earthquake o ✔ Some houses were simply flattened by the shuddering tectonic shift which the government and the private sector estimated caused billions of dollars of damage.REUTERS/Henry Romero Close 2 / 20 Enrique Alcantara watches a television near the site where his building was damaged
Storm Ali to SMASH Britain: Danger to life warning as 80mph gales hit TODAY
9/19/2018, 3:44:03 AMTRAVEL disruption, power cuts and flying debris are expected as Storm Ali brings severe gales of up to 80mph to the UK and Ireland today. ✔ There is also potential for damage to buildings, fallen trees, travel cancellations, road closures and large waves in coastal areas, the forecaster added ✔ It's going to be windy everywhere and there will be a band of rain that pushes its way across the UK as well ✔ But an improvement is expected early next week as drier weather is set to take hold
A year after deadly Mexico quake, some still wait to return home
9/19/2018, 2:18:39 AMA year after a devastating earthquake struck Mexico City and killed dozens of pe... ✔ REUTERS/Henry Romero But 434 buildings in Mexico City are still at risk of collapse and over 1,000 require significant reinforcement before they can be reoccupied, the capital’s government said ✔ The dilemma can be felt acutely in Tlalpan, a neighborhood in the capital’s southern reaches hit hard by the quake ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
This man waded a mile and a half through floodwaters for love and cigarettes
9/19/2018, 12:20:10 AMAs the floodwaters from what's left of Hurricane Florence roared around him chest-deep Tuesday, Patrick Wolvin waded out in search of cigarettes. ✔ Even if he'd known how bad the flooding would be, Wolvin said he still would have stayed ✔ Joel Burgess/Citizen-Times Fullscreen Buoys block debris from flowing over Hope Mills Dam, in Hope Mills, south of Fayetteville, N.C ✔ Caitie McMekin/News Sentinel, Fullscreen Last SlideNext Slide
The Latest: Bridge closed as North Carolina river rises
9/19/2018, 12:54:01 AMWILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) — The Latest on Florence's lingering impact (all times local): 7 p.m. Authorities have closed a vehicle bridge in Fayetteville af ✔ (AP Photo/Steve Helber) CORRECTS SPELLING OF CITY TO BURGAW FROM BURGOW - U.S. Coast Guard rescue swimmer Chris Hale, instructs J. Heron Ramos Jr., left, and J. Heron Ramos Sr., as they wait to board a helicopter from their flooded homes in Burgaw, N.C., Tuesday, Sept
Environmentalists worry that Florence will leave behind a toxic mess in North Carolina
9/19/2018, 3:01:42 AMHurricane Florence has made much of North Carolina impassable, so environmental groups are taking to the skies to survey the damage. They are trying to determine if flooding has caused runoff from hog farms, coal ash basins and other sources of pollution. ✔ All of them have been taking off out of a small regional airport in New Bern, where metal siding from damaged hangars, shorn off by the hurricane, still litter the ground ✔ It's even tougher when you're broke By Jenny Jarvie Sep 16, 2018 | 8:25 PM Hog farmers were barred from building new lagoons in 1997, but they weren’t required to close the old ones ✔ It’s a slow process that can hurt the ecosystem and the people who live there
Mexico's next anti-money laundering czar vows action after...
9/19/2018, 1:06:08 AMMexico's incoming financial intelligence chief said it was "shameful&q... ✔ He has given few details of how he will achieve this, but promises to set an example of probity from the presidency ✔ Tasked with helping to prevent and fight money laundering and terrorism financing, the financial intelligence unit receives and analyzes information that it should then pass on to prosecutors to investigate and construct a case ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Master gardener spent 273 hours pruning award-winning lawn
9/19/2018, 1:31:58 AMA GOLF club greenskeeper shows off his patterned lawn which took him 273 hours to create with a 1940s mower. Keith Smith, 41, cut the grass three times a day over the hot summer. The dad of two fro… ✔ I’m sure there are thousands of lawns which were wrecked - but not mine ✔ I don't drink or smoke, and my wife and kids are my world, but this keeps me fit and healthy ✔ RING The Sun on 0207 782 4104 or WHATSAPP on 07423720250 or EMAIL exclusive@the-sun.co.uk
We're doubling down on the errors that caused the financial crisis a decade ago
9/19/2018, 1:06:52 AMEveryone has their favourite theory about the financial crisis, but we keep overlooking an alternative account of what actually happened. ✔ It was deregulation, they claim, or bankers' bonuses, low interest rates, US government housing policy or moral hazard ✔ But ten years on, it is surely time to release ourselves from the politics of it all and consider 2008 as an intellectual conundrum ✔ The second is how these dud assets, despite being small cogs in the wider system, wrought such mayhem
There’s a frenzy afoot against the ‘far-right’ in Europe that misses a greater danger
9/19/2018, 1:42:04 AMEurope’s mainstream media has reached a point of distorted frenzy about what it calls the “far-right” and “neo-Nazis.” I know. I have just experienced this first hand. Allow me, please, to tell my tale. ✔ I must now put this topic in more personal terms, terms I ordinarily do not raise: Much of my family was murdered by the Nazis ✔ My career is devoted to political sobriety and moderation ✔ • Daniel Pipes (DanielPipes.org, @DanielPipes) is president of the Middle East Forum
Opinion | How peace keeps receding in the Middle East
9/19/2018, 12:21:04 AMThe efforts of a generation of Americans, Israelis and Arabs to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have largely come to naught. ✔ By David Ignatius David Ignatius Columnist covering foreign affairs Email Bio Follow Columnist September 18 at 7:09 PM This month commemorates two pinnacles for the benign, naive superpower that was America, both involving our now-lost role as Middle East peacemaker ✔ As a journalist who covered the Middle East in the years when Israeli-Palestinian peace was a diplomatic obsession, I have a trunkful of memories of how peace kept receding, even as U.S. mediation advanced
The Latest: 2 die in rising flood waters that overtook a van
9/19/2018, 1:56:24 AMWILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) — The Latest on Florence's lingering impact (all times local): 9:45 p.m. Two people have died after a van was overtaken by rising ✔ (AP Photo/Steve Helber) CORRECTS SPELLING OF CITY TO BURGAW FROM BURGOW - U.S. Coast Guard rescue swimmer, Chris Hale, center, instructs J. Heron Ramos Jr., left, and J. Heron Ramos Sr., as they wait to board a helicopter as they leave their flooded homes in Burgaw, NC., Tuesday, Sept
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