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The biggest natural disaster in the United States in 2008 was Hurricane Ike, which made landfall near Galveston, TX in September as a Category 2 hurricane with winds of up to 110 MPH. Much of the damage caused by a hurricane is due to the high [...]

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Click here to listen to this episode of Weather Break.
The biggest natural disaster in the United States in 2008 was Hurricane Ike, which made landfall near Galveston, TX in September as a Category 2 hurricane with winds of up to 110 MPH. Much of the damage caused by a hurricane is due to the high [...]

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Last week on Weather Break, we aired an episode in which Creighton University student Ken Harmon talked about the potential effects if a major hurricane were to strike New York City.  This isn’t a purely hypothetical possibility–hurricanes strike New England and the northeastern United States from time to time.  In fact, [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 395 of Weather Break
On September 14, Super Typhoon Sinlaku hit the island of Taiwan in the Western Pacific.  Typhoons are the same kinds of storms as what we call “hurricanes” here in the United States, and Sinlaku was a monster, with peak winds of 125 [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 393 of Weather Break
When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans three years ago and overwhelmed the levee system, people in the Emergency Management community weren’t really all that surprised by the destruction.  The possibility of a major hurricane flooding New Orleans was one of several “worst [...]

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