Nearly a million homes, businesses in Texas still without power after Hurricane Beryl
Houston, US Reuters Nearly a million homes and businesses in Texas remained without power on Friday, five days after Hurricane Beryl made landfall with fierce winds and rain that knocked down trees and electricity infrastructure. CenterPoint Energy, the largest power provider in Texas, said about 860,000 of its customers remained affected. It has restored power […]
Caribbean braces for economic punch after season’s deadly first hurricane
Reuters Leaders across the Caribbean were still tallying the financial toll wrought by the earliest Atlantic storm on record to intensify to the maximum Category 5 level, after it left a trail of destruction on Jamaica and islands of the eastern Caribbean. “There is no doubt this disaster will have a major impact on Grenada’s […]
Heat wave bakes Texas amid power outages while Canada braces for wildfires
Reuters Millions of Americans in south-east Texas endured brutally hot conditions on Tuesday without the relief of air conditioning after deadly Tropical Storm Beryl knocked out power to a large portion of the region. Scorching heat also baked much of the Western US and Canada, raising the risk of wildfires. A resident walks past debris […]
Storm Beryl kills three in Texas, knocks out power
Reuters Tropical Storm Beryl brought howling winds and torrential rain to south-east Texas on Monday, killing at least three people, flooding highways, closing oil ports, canceling more than 1,000 flights and knocking out power to more than 2.5 million homes and businesses. Beryl, the season’s earliest Category 5 hurricane on record, weakened from a hurricane […]
Ports along Texas coast close, restrict traffic as Tropical Storm Beryl approaches
Houston, US Reuters Ports along the Texas coast were closing or restricting vessel traffic on Sunday to prepare for Tropical Storm Beryl, which was expected to strengthen back to a hurricane before hitting the area early on Monday. The storm, which at one point intensified to a Category 5 hurricane, left a deadly trail of […]
Survival story as Hurricane Beryl razes smallest inhabited island of St Vincent and the Grenadines
Mayreau, St Vincent and the Grenadines AP Mayreu is one of the smallest inhabited islands of St Vincent and the Grenadines. It’s so small that it’s barely visible – a dot on the map of the Caribbean. Hurricane Beryl nearly erased it from the map. Beryl pummelled everything along its path, ripping up roofs of […]
Tropical Storm Beryl spares top Mexican beaches after furious Caribbean trek
Cancun/Tulum, Mexico Reuters Tropical Storm Beryl passed over Mexico’s top beach destinations on Friday, bringing strong winds and heavy rain but without leaving major damage, after forging a deadly trail of destruction across the Caribbean. The core of the storm, downgraded from a hurricane, crossed the Yucatan Peninsula by Friday afternoon, as its maximum wind […]
Hurricane Beryl passes over Caymans, heads for top Mexico resorts leaving widespread destruction
Updated: 12:30pm Kingston, Jamaica Reuters Hurricane Beryl strengthened to a Category 3 storm on Thursday evening as it zeroed in on Mexico’s top tourist resorts after leaving behind a deadly trail of destruction across several Caribbean islands over the past few days. Beryl, packing maximum winds of 185 kph, was on a path to strike […]
Hurricane Beryl strikes Jamaica as death toll creeps up, destruction widespread
Kingston, Jamaica/Port-au-Prince, Haiti Reuters Hurricane Beryl churned menacingly over Jamaica on Wednesday afternoon, after uprooting trees, ripping off roofs and destroying farms as it forged a destructive, water-soaked path across smaller Caribbean islands over the past couple days. The death toll from the powerful Category 4 hurricane rose to at least nine, but it is […]
Deadly Hurricane Beryl churns toward Jamaica, causes “immense destruction”
Kingston, Jamaica Reuters Hurricane Beryl barrelled toward Jamaica as a powerful Category 4 storm on Tuesday after battering smaller islands in the eastern Caribbean, and scientists cited human-caused climate change as the likely culprit for the storm’s rapid strengthening. The unusually early hurricane felled power lines and unleashed flash floods. It has so far claimed […]