'Sirens ... Black Clouds ... Hunker Down'
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By Cherish Wilson, The Shelby Star, N.C.  Jun. 26--SHELBY -- The wail of weather sirens -- once used for a variety of notifications -- now means that severe weather is on its way.
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Some residents of Texas and Louisiana fired up generators to cut through the darkness after Hurricane Humberto sneaked up on the Gulf Coast, knocking out power to thousands and flooding streets before fizzling into a tropical depression.
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A few decades ago, the earliest warning Floridians would have had of a hurricane would have been black clouds on the horizon. Now people are complaining after Hurricane Charley hit shore at a point just 60 miles off ...
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How our lives ground to a halt when a storm knocked out power.
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TOKYO - A rapidly expanding low-pressure system brought typhoon-class winds to the Japanese archipelago from Saturday night to Sunday night, causing blackouts, stranding ships and paralyzing some air and land traffic.
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In the northwest corner of Sumatra, the hardship from what some local people are calling "black Sunday" is taking a toll.
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A little after 11:00 pm on Wednesday night, as authorities settled in at the Mobile County Command Center in Alabama to await Hurricane Ivanâs arrival, a harried plea crackled over the radio.
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Another Olympics and another massive disappointment for Paula Radcliffe - and the dark clouds that once billed her as a flop when it mattered will be gathering again.
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The silver lining on a dark cloud of a night wasn't the result, but rather the work.
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There was no room to move. Even less to breathe. But nobody seemed to mind. The sea of bodies just kept swaying. To the left, the right and back to the left again.
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RANCHO BERNARDO, Calif., Oct. 24 -- Strange things happened on Cloudesly Drive. Houses simply disappeared. At one address, there is a swimming pool, transformed into a black lagoon. There is a metal lump, still warm to the touch, that appears to have been the dishwasher. What else? A pile of charred...
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Dotted around the globe are shadowy, short-range transmitters beaming strange radio messages across the planet. The messages are indecipherable, and often unlistenable. Nonetheless, they have their fans. By Jason Walsh.
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By John Shultz, Kevin Murphy and Tony Rizzo, The Kansas City Star, Mo.  Feb. 9--Firefighters pumped foam Thursday evening over smoldering remnants of a blaze that a day earlier cast a threatening black cloud over Kansas City, but some stubborn hot spots remained.
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Natural disasters invoke a frustrating helplessness: Our despair only deepens as the scope of devastation reveals itself. Americans last experienced nature&#39;s wrath firsthand during the series of hurricanes
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The next stage was run in total darkness. I plotted a short cut that seemed to leave public roads, because we were soon bouncing through farm fields and the occasional irrigation ditch. Dust was everywhere.
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A COMMUNITY radio station which lost its aerial in storms was rescued by the fire service hours before it was due to go on air.  7 Waves radio trains people from across Mer-seyside and was due to start broadcasting at midnight last night.
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It's the government's idea of a really bad day: Washington's Metro trains shut down. Seaport computers in New York go dark. Bloggers reveal locations of railcars with hazardous materials. Airport control towers are disrupted in Philadelphia and Chicago. Overseas, a mysterious liquid is found on London's subway.