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"Humberto Strengthens Into A Hurricane: U.S. NHC" [1]

"Humberto has strengthened into a hurricane in the Atlantic and is forecast to strengthen further during the next 48 hours, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said on Sunday."

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Source: Reuters [7], 09/16/2019
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Climate Change Poses Major Risk To Flood Insurance Program: Experts [8]

"Environmental experts on Wednesday warned House lawmakers about risks to the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) posed by climate change, saying the situation is likely to worsen in the coming years."

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Source: The Hill [12], 09/13/2019
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"Extreme Weather Displaced a Record 7 Million in First Half of 2019" [13]

"Extreme weather events displaced a record seven million people from their homes during the first six months of this year, a figure that put 2019 on pace to be one of the most disastrous years in almost two decades even before Hurricane Dorian battered the Bahamas."

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Source: NY Times [16], 09/13/2019
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"Dorian's Toll: Bahamas Officials Say 2,500 Missing In Storm's Wake" [17]

"Around 2,500 people are feared missing in the Bahamas in the wake of devastating Hurricane Dorian, a number that may include people who fled to shelters around the Caribbean island chain, authorities said on Wednesday."

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Source: Reuters [19], 09/12/2019
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Trump Pushed Staff To Contradict Accurate NOAA Tweet On Dorian Track [20]

 "President Trump told his staff that the nation’s leading weather forecasting agency needed to correct a statement that contradicted a tweet the president had sent wrongly claiming that Hurricane Dorian threatened Alabama, senior administration officials said."

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Source: Washington Post [24], 09/12/2019
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FEMA Officials Charged With Fraud Tied To Hurricane Aid In Puerto Rico [25]

"Two FEMA officials assigned to help manage restoration efforts in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria have been charged with fraud and bribery for trying to enrich themselves by helping a company that received $1.8 billion in government contracts, the Justice Department announced Tuesday."

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Source: Washington Post [27], 09/11/2019
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"Flight To The Future: One Land's Quest To Defuse A Climate 'Timebomb'" [28]

"When Hawo Mohamed woke one morning to find about a dozen of her goats dead, she knew her life as a herder was coming to an end."

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Source: Reuters [31], 09/11/2019
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Canada Tries a Forceful Message for Flood Victims: Live Someplace Else [32]

"Along the coast of the United States, people who lost homes to Hurricane Dorian are preparing to rebuild. But Canada — which has faced devastating flooding of its own — is testing a very different idea of disaster recovery: Forcing people to move."

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Source: NY Times [34], 09/11/2019
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Texas Draining Four Lakes As Aging Infrastructure Faces Catastrophe [35]

"Two floodgate failures on 90-year-old Guadalupe River Valley dams — and the plan to lower the remaining four — are highlighting Texas' underfunded, aging flood infrastructure."

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Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [36]
Source: Texas Tribune [37], 09/11/2019
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"NOAA Chief, Defending Trump on Dorian, Also Tries to Buoy Scientists" [38]

"Neil Jacobs, head of the federal scientific agency threatened with firings after one of its offices contradicted President Trump on Hurricane Dorian, defended the administration Tuesday even as he issued a carefully worded defense of agency scientists."

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Source: NY Times [39], 09/11/2019
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