The electricity at advocate Yomi Wrong’s Oakland, Calif. home has not been shut off despite planned blackouts, so she’s able to charge the electric wheelchair she uses to get around. Wrong charged her old backup wheelchair in case she loses power, but some of her friends who live a mile …
The business of preparing for disaster is still going strong Ron hubbard sells high-end fallout shelters, and business is booming. Just $144,999 (fiat currency, not gold), buys a 500-square-foot, sandblasted, tar-coated, modular fallout shelter with a bulletproof hatch, decontamination shower, gas-tight interior doors, L-shaped entry “to attenuate gamma radiation”, kitchen, bathroom, …
Families who lost relatives in fatal Boeing 737 Max air crashes are set to receive about $144,500 (£116,200) each from the company. The money comes from a $50m financial assistance fund, which Boeing announced in July. The fund has started accepting claims, which must be submitted before 2020. Lawyers for …
Private fire brigades are not just for the rich anymore—and for some, they’re also not enough. “Pray for Calabasas,” Kim Kardashian urged her legion of Instagram followers in a video she shot while flying over the Woolsey Fire on November 8, 2018. But Kardashian did not leave the fate of …
South Floridians feel a kinship with the people of the Bahamas. The two places share a lot of things: a cruise-ship industry, snowbird culture, and reputations as tax havens. Freeport, on the island of Grand Bahama, is less than a hundred miles from Fort Lauderdale. Nassau, the capital city, is …
After the Category 5 hurricane, companies that often have a difficult relationship with the Bahamas have stepped in to help with relief. But is it enough to repair their image? At 76, disabled, with half the roof of her Grand Bahama home blown off and facing the prospect of months …
As Hurricane Dorian continues to churn up the east coast of Florida, a new poll shows that many older Americans aren’t fully prepared to cope with natural disasters or severe storms. The poll of more than 2,200 adults, ages 50 to 80, found that less than one-third have an emergency …
Rescuers have suspended their search off the coast of Santa Cruz Island for passengers who were trapped aboard the Conception when the diving boat caught fire and sank early Monday. The rescuers said there are no signs of additional survivors. NTSB board member Jennifer Homendy said the federal agency started its investigation …
KATHMANDU, Nepal — The death toll mounted Monday from flooding and landslides caused by torrential weekend rains in India and Nepal, as rescuers carried out desperate searches for survivors and officials in nearby Bangladesh braced for the floodwaters to move downstream. The hardest-hit country appeared to be Nepal, where the …
Five years ago, the flight vanished into the Indian Ocean. Officials on land know more about why than they dare to say. 1. The Disappearance at 12:42 a.m. on the quiet, moonlit night of March 8, 2014, a Boeing 777-200ER operated by Malaysia Airlines took off from Kuala Lumpur and …
Standing next to his red mud-splattered pickup in Central Arkansas, a tired Robert Stobaugh watches an osprey soar over a field of flooded rice. If anything can survive flooding, he says, it’s rice. “But even rice doesn’t like this,” he says, looking at the swamp of rust-brown water in front …