May 27th, 2009 at 8:00AM: Hurricane season will not keep travelers from their destinations! A recent survey by TripAdvisor®, which mined the opinions of more than 1,000 U.S. travelers, reports that 43 percent plan to hit a hurricane-prone destination this summer or fall – peak hurricane season. This is up from 36 percent last year. Sixty-five percent of the survey's respondents are doing this to take advantage of ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Hurricane season is for bargain-hunters
May 27th, 2009 at 8:00AM: Hurricane season will not keep travelers from their destinations! A recent survey by TripAdvisor®, which mined the opinions of more than 1,000 U.S. travelers, reports that 43 percent plan to hit a hurricane-prone destination this summer or fall – peak hurricane season. This is up from 36 percent last year. Sixty-five percent of the survey's respondents are doing this to take advantage of ...A Hurricane Hits Canada
Sep 30th, 2008 at 8:00AM: When television reporters try for their moment of glory by standing outside in the midst of a hurricane, there is usually a palm tree being whipped by the wind in the background. Hurricanes are known mainly as a tropical phenomenon. But not always. Hurricane Kyle battered Nova Scotia yesterday. Meanwhile, the neighboring US state of Maine issued the first hurricane warning in 17 years. Winds of 96 ...Going to Texas? Maybe not this weekend.
Sep 12th, 2008 at 5:00PM: Continental just suspended all of its flights in and out of Houston through Saturday pending results from Hurricane Ike, which is currently barreling towards the Gulf coast. Naturally, Mother Nature will be disrupting your plans if you're flying through Texas this weekend, or even through the heartland over the course of the week, as the storm works its way into the breadbasket and disperses ...Caribbean vacations: Trying to reason with hurricane season
Jun 13th, 2008 at 8:00AM: This is a tense time of year for all those cruise and Caribbean enthusiasts out there, as scientists finalize their predictions about what kind of hurricane season the year will have. For 2008, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is predicting a "normal or slightly busier" year for hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean. What's normal? NOAA says most years see 11 named storms, with six ...Finally, Europe Has Its Own Natural Disaster
Jan 19th, 2007 at 2:10PM: As a journalist, I find weather stories pathetic. It's mainly the use of all the tragic words I despise: devastating, gushing, torn into homes, etc. But people love them. There is nothing like a natural catastrophe that gets the readership numbers up. Now, with the high winds "blasting" across Europe, killing 45 people, European papers have stuff to write about.
Call me cynical, but I have always ...New Orleans & Katrina Revisited: A Photo Gallery
Aug 28th, 2006 at 8:20AM: Tomorrow marks the one-year anniversary of one of the costliest not to mention deadliest storms to hit U.S. landfall -- Hurricane Katrina. To prepare for the occasion last Friday USA Today featured a photo gallery and fairly detailed report on the state of tourism affairs in the grand ole' city. This being the first summer since the storm hit last year business owners are said to be down 60% ...Blogging New Orleans!
May 24th, 2006 at 10:36PM: How sooo out of the loop I feel these days trying to get more Americans to walk and exercise! Perhaps I missed a memo that went out, but where and when did our sister site, Blogging New Orleans come around? Seriously? I was scrolling down just to see what has been happening on sister sites across the board when I discovered one I never knew existed! Anyhow, Blogging New Orleans looks quite ...
