New Windstorm Rakes B.C. South Coast, Power is Cut to 190,000
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VANCOUVER (CP) - The B.C. south coast is being hammered by another windstorm that has knocked out power to at least 190,000 people.  The storm has uprooted trees, knocked down power lines and disrupted travel with winds up to 100 kilometres an hour or more in some places.
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A powerful storm socked the Pacific Northwest with heavy rain and wind gusts close to 100 mph Thursday, flooding streets, toppling trees and cutting power to thousands.
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Met ireann has issued a severe weather warning and forecasts gusts of up to 100 m.p.h. in exposed parts of the west and south this evening.
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MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. - Tropical Storm Gaston sloshed ashore in South Carolina Sunday with near hurricane-force winds, spinning sheets of rain that flooded roads as the storm knocked out power to thousands of people...
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Two cyclones battering three South  Pacific island nations with gale-force winds, heavy rains and  huge seas looked as if they would miss major population areas,  weather officials said on Wednesday.
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By Mary Hopkin, Tri-City Herald, Kennewick, Wash.  Sep. 22--Rain and cooler temperatures have calmed the Columbia Complex, the wildfire sparked a month ago by dry lightning near Dayton.
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The Category 5 designation is reserved for the most powerful storms with sustained windsâthat is, winds that blow continuously for at least one minuteâexceeding 155 miles an hour (249 kilometers).
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By Jessie Mangaliman, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Dec. 15--Waves up to 20 feet high will batter the coast this weekend, creating dangerous conditions for anyone tempted to watch from rocks or even piers, the National Weather Service said today.
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Hurrican Ivan barrelled into the Cayman Islands last night, its ferocious 155mph winds tearing off roofs while an 8ft storm surge flooded the coastal plain, including parts of the capital, George Town.
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MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, Sept 11  - Walls of waves crashed into seaside towns as deadly Hurricane Ivan lashed Jamaica with winds of 240 kilometers (150 miles) per hour Saturday and threatened to grow stronger, with millions more people in its projected
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Tens of thousands of people in Eastern  Canada could be without electricity until the end of the week,  officials said on Monday, after an early winter blizzard downed  power lines and crumpled transmission towers.
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CHARLESTON, S.C. - Tropical Storm Gaston blasted the South Carolina coast with rain and near-hurricane strength wind early Sunday, flooding roads and knocking out power to at least 75,000 homes...
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Three motorists die and thousands of homes suffer power cuts as winds over 100mph hit parts of the UK.
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South West coastal towns and villages wake up to more destruction caused by 75mph winds and high tides.
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A fierce storm packing winds of up to  125 mph battered Scotland and Northern Ireland, killing three  people and leaving tens of thousands without electricity,  police and emergency services said Wednesday.
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Three hours after an offshore earthquake shook Canada in 1929, three giant ocean surges hurtled onto Newfoundland's coast at 78 miles per hour. Twenty-nine people were killed by the estimated 20-foot waves, and entire salt cod-fishing villages were dismantled as pulses from the tsunami reverberated as far away as Portugal.
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FORT PIERCE, Florida  - Potent but slow-moving hurricane Frances snapped power lines and whipped the Florida coast with winds over 145 kilometres an hour Saturday, knocking out electricity for about two million people and forcing residents to endure another day of waiting and worrying.