Apr 17th, 2011 at 1:00PM: A powerful storm system that produced damaging tornadoes tore through several states over the course of the last few days. Beginning in Oklahoma and Arkansas on Thursday, the storm moved through Mississippi on Friday and Alabama and Georgia. Eventually wreaking havoc on North Carolina and Virginia, this storm has claimed at least 35 lives in six states. With flash floods, softball-sized hail, and ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Video: Mississippi tornado rips through power lines
Apr 17th, 2011 at 1:00PM: A powerful storm system that produced damaging tornadoes tore through several states over the course of the last few days. Beginning in Oklahoma and Arkansas on Thursday, the storm moved through Mississippi on Friday and Alabama and Georgia. Eventually wreaking havoc on North Carolina and Virginia, this storm has claimed at least 35 lives in six states. With flash floods, softball-sized hail, and ...Gadling's winter storm air travel survival guide
Jan 20th, 2011 at 9:30AM:
The recent storms have probably been the best reminder in a long time that it pays to be prepared during a storm disruption. You probably all know the basic tips to keep in mind, but we've gathered a couple of our own tips in this storm survival guide that could help you when your travel plans become messed up.
Some of these are important to take care of before you leave, others could help ...The 10 snowiest cities in America ... bundle up!
Dec 17th, 2010 at 9:00AM:
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I spend all summer fantasizing about winter. From the end of May to the beginning of October, I wind up drenched in sweat, wishing I could peel off my own skin and running from one air conditioned environment to another. It's miserable. When the biting cold of the winter ...Five reasons why you'll be miserable during Thanksgiving travel
Nov 23rd, 2010 at 2:00PM: We've all heard that the day before Thanksgiving is the busiest of the year for air travel. And, the roads tend to get clogged up with people going to visit friends and family – not to mention stuff their faces with turkey, potatoes and other traditional holiday fare. Travel isn't going to be fun tomorrow, but you already know that.
But, do you know why?
Personally, of course, I have ...Could a hurricane still disrupt your vacation?
Oct 17th, 2010 at 4:00PM: If you have a vacation planned to the Gulf of Mexico coast between now and the end of November, the odds that it will get screwed up by a hurricane are declining rapidly. Hurricane season ends on November 30, and it looks like it's going to be remembered as a pretty mild one, with only 16 named storms, nine hurricanes and five hitting Category 3 or higher. There haven't been any major storms to ...Scary video shows cruise ship caught in high seas
Sep 9th, 2010 at 10:30AM:
I've never been on a cruise. That said, I'm sure they are quite nice - and plenty of travelers speak highly of them. But I have to admit, the video above is not doing much to convince me to get on a cruise any time soon. Apparently back in 2008, a P&O Cruises ship out of New Zealand got caught in some nasty weather about 400 miles from shore. Even this massive cruise ship, carrying over ...
Ten things to do when it rains on your vacation
Aug 3rd, 2010 at 10:00AM: Barbra Streisand gets it. Rain is the enemy.
I mean, yes, rain is important to our environment and makes all the beautiful things you see on a vacation possible, but when you only have a few days in paradise, rain can really spoil things. If you've ever found yourself in a situation where your dream day of biking or skydiving is canceled due to a torrential downpour, you get it. If you've ever ...Photo of the Day (6.6.10)
Jun 6th, 2010 at 8:00PM:
If you've never experienced a thunderstorm as it rolls across the Great Plains, you're missing out. During the shimmering-hot days of summer, you can hear and see these monsters coming from far away. Thunder rumbles ominously. Dark storm clouds rise to immense heights. The branches of trees flutter about in the intensifying breeze. It's truly one of the nature's greatest spectacles - the ...Escape from New York: Five tips for leaving the city when flights fail you
Mar 8th, 2010 at 8:00AM: New York is no stranger to tourist and business travel. We get lot of guests here, and eventually, their trips must come to an end. When the weather turns harsh, this can be problematic. Spring may be close, but March and April snowstorms happen, and there are always spring showers to make getting off the ground at JFK or LaGuardia a pure living hell. Whether you're traveling in the northeast ...Photo of the Day (12.31.09)
Dec 31st, 2009 at 6:00PM:
More snow is expected for today in the Boston area. I've been trying to capture snow with as much impact as possible, but I haven't been happy with the results.
This picture from PDPhotography taken in Toronto really gave me a chill. Now I'm off to try to re-create the look. If I could just find a bus around here.
Here's hoping you have a wonderful new year. Why not make it a New Year's ...The Spice Isle: Grenada moves on past Hurricane Ivan
Nov 5th, 2009 at 1:00PM:
I didn't know a lot about Grenada before visiting recently, but one name was familiar to me: Ivan -- the hurricane that came through with force in 2004. So once I got there, I wanted to find out two things: what's it like during a hurricane? And how does the country look now, five years later? You first have to realize -- the hurricane was a fluke. The reason some residents were actually ...Crazy dust storm covers Sydney in red haze
Sep 23rd, 2009 at 3:30PM: Residents and tourists in Sydney, Australia, might be feeling as though they been transported to Mars, and in fact, a glance around at the city covered in red dust against a red-orange sky does bring to mind images of what a colony on the red planet would look like. Despite its other-worldly appearance, the haze that converged on Sydney yesterday is earth-bound, composed of red dust from the ...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 ...Photo of the Day (12.06.08)
Jan 6th, 2009 at 6:00PM:
I booked a ticket to Australia a little while ago, and now that we're in the new year, the reality of my journey is starting to hit. In the throes of planning our itinerary we considered a variety of destinations, including wine country, in the South of the island. Scenes like this, taken by colmdc in Barossa Valley make me even more certain that it's a place that I want to visit. We'll see ...Cockpit Chronicles: Anatomy of a 26 hour delay.
Jan 5th, 2009 at 11:00AM: You've booked your honeymoon cruise and since you're smarter than the average traveler, you planned to be in San Juan more than a day early just to be safe. Sometimes though, no matter how hard we try, forces just stack up against passengers and their flight crews. The San Juan one-day trip I flew just before Christmas is the perfect example. digg_url = ...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 ...Photo of the Day (3-11-2008)
Mar 11th, 2008 at 2:00PM: Aside from a 2-week bout of the nastiest weather imaginable, winter in my cold little nook of the world has been pretty mild. In fact, the temperature today was in the mid-60s, while our neighbors to the east are experiencing severe winter weather warnings. So it's in honour of them that I choose to feature this photo of Toronto by PDPhotography today. I love the framing, I love the bleakness of ...Photo Gallery: Huge Dust Storm Takes Over Lubbock
May 28th, 2007 at 3:00PM:
One time I was headed back home to San Antonio to visit my family, and right as I crossed over the Texas-Oklahoma border -- somewhere near Denison, TX -- a dust storm took hold. In a matter of moments the sky was red, the highways were covered, and dust devils swirled every which way around the car as we poked our way down the highway at geriatric speeds. It looked very similar to the picture ...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 ...Photo of the Day (12/9/06)
Dec 9th, 2006 at 10:47AM: Snow days have arrived and in full force for certain areas. In this neighborhood-street shot taken in Vancouver B.C. by borderfilms (Doug) I get the impression no one was in any mood to rush out and take the cars on a snowy spin. Or maybe Doug just couldn't resist saving the memory of this rare snow dumped day with his Nikon D70 before pulling out the scrapper to remove nature's wintry blanket. ...
