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20051031
-
 Florida
- Hurricane
Wilma -  Halloween
- "Halloween
Is Hurricane Wilma's New Victim: Hurricane Wilma
Claims Another Victim - Halloween Trick-Or-Treating." ... "Little ghosts
and goblins in cities across South Florida were stuck inside Monday night
as officials urged parents to call off trick-or-treating because of the
damage from Hurricane Wilma." ... "Florida Power & Light, the state's
largest electric utility, said Monday afternoon that it had restored power
to about 75 percent of the customers blacked out by the Oct. 24 storm,
but that left 800,000 homes and businesses still without electricity."
-AP via -ABCNEWS.com
20051026
-
Hurricane
Katrina - Hurricane
Wilma - Disaster
-
 Politics
- "FEMA
Extends Ex-Chief's Contract." ... "The former head
of the Federal Emergency Management Agency on Wednesday defended the agency's
decision to keep him on the job another 30 days as a "completely legitimate
thing to do."" ... "Michael Brown, who resigned under fire Sept. 12 after
being heavily criticized for the federal government's slow reaction to
the hurricane, told The Associated Press that he would help the agency
complete its review of the response to Hurricane Katrina." ... "Brown initially
was permitted to stay on the FEMA payroll for 30 days at his $148,000 annual
salary. Chertoff defended the decision to extend Brown's employment for
another 30 days during an interview Wednesday as he flew to view Hurricane
Wilma's damage in Florida." -AP
via -CBSNews
-
Hurricane
Katrina - Hurricane
Wilma - Disaster
- Politics
- "FEMA
Extends Ex-Chief's Contract." ... "The former head
of the Federal Emergency Management Agency on Wednesday defended the agency's
decision to keep him on the job another 30 days as a "completely legitimate
thing to do."" ... "Michael Brown, who resigned under fire Sept. 12 after
being heavily criticized for the federal government's slow reaction to
the hurricane, told The Associated Press that he would help the agency
complete its review of the response to Hurricane Katrina." ... "Brown initially
was permitted to stay on the FEMA payroll for 30 days at his $148,000 annual
salary. Chertoff defended the decision to extend Brown's employment for
another 30 days during an interview Wednesday as he flew to view Hurricane
Wilma's damage in Florida." -AP
via -CBSNews
-
Florida
-
 Airline
- Hurricane
Wilma - "Most
of South Florida without power." ... "Power failures
caused by Hurricane Wilma left 6 million people across Florida without
electricity Tuesday and disrupted airline traffic at the third-busiest
U.S. airport for international traffic. Officials said some areas could
be in the dark for several weeks." ... "Florida Power & Light, which
provides electricity for almost all of South Florida, said Wilma had affected
more of its customers than any other natural disaster in FPL's history.
It said one in three Florida residents were without power." -By
Tony Bertuca and Wendy Koch with contributions by Donna Leinwand
-USATODAY
20051025
-
 Mexico
-  Weather
- Hurricane
Wilma -  Business
- "Cancun
Tourism Industry Dealt a Devastating Blow: Damage
in the hotel sector of Mexico's premier resort area could reach $1.5 billion.
At least seven people are reported killed." ... "Utility workers restrung
fallen power lines Monday, bulldozers cleared debris and traffic cops tried
to keep order on jammed streets that had just reopened after Hurricane
Wilma pounded Mexico's premier resort zone." ... "The region's economic
lifeblood, the tourism industry, was devastated: One estimate placed the
damage in the hotel sector at $1.5 billion." ... "After oil revenue and
remittances from migrants, tourism is the third most important source of
foreign currency for Mexico." -By Sam Enriquez and
Carlos Martínez
-LAtimes
20051024
-
Florida
- Hurricane
Wilma - "Wilma
Kills 6 in Fla.; 6M Without Power: Wilma Kills 6
in Fla., Leaves 6M Without Power; Fort Lauderdale Damage Called Worst in
55 Years." ... "Hurricane Wilma knifed through Florida with winds up to
125 mph Monday, shattering windows in skyscrapers, peeling away roofs and
knocking out power to 6 million people, with still a month left to go in
the busiest Atlantic storm season on record." ... "At least six deaths
were blamed on the hurricane in Florida, bringing the toll from the storm's
march through the tropics to 25." ... "After a slow, weeklong journey that
saw it pound Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula for two days, Wilma made a mercifully
swift seven-hour dash across lower Florida, from its southwestern corner
to heavily populated Miami, Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach on the
Atlantic coast." (1, 2,
3,
4)
-With contributions by Allen Breed, Erik Schelzig,
Melissa Trujillo, David Royse, and Ron Word, Adrian Sainz and Brent Kallestad
-AP
via -ABCNEWS.com
-
Mexico
- Weather
- Hurricane
Wilma -
 History
- "Storm's
end brings search for food in Cancun: Resort tourists
and residents receive handouts." ... "As Hurricane Wilma ended its two-day
rampage across the Yucatan Peninsula early yesterday, residents of this
famous resort city [Cancun, Mexico] picked through the wreckage of their
shattered homes and lined up by the hundreds at the town hall for handouts
of food. Others looted damaged shops for food and supplies, some later
clashing occasionally with police who struggled to maintain order." ...
"Thousands of tourists emerged from partially flooded shelters to search
for food as well, surveying the damage from what officials said was the
most destructive storm to hit the peninsula in recorded history." -By
Marion Lloyd -Boston/Globe
-
Florida
- Hurricane
Wilma -
 Wind
- "Wilma
delivers blow to Florida: Speedy storm pummels state,
moves into Atlantic." ... "Hurricane Wilma battered Florida for about six
hours Monday with heavy rain, widespread flooding and damaging winds, before
heading out to the Atlantic and regaining strength." ... "The storm made
landfall as a powerful Category 3 hurricane at 6:30 a.m. ET about 22 miles
south of Naples [Florida], the National Hurricane Center said. Its top
winds were 125 mph." ... "Wilma raced across Florida as a downgraded Category
2 storm with top winds around 100 mph. By 12:30 p.m. ET, its center was
over the Atlantic. The storm regained strength to Category 3 status, with
115-mph winds, the NHC said." -Contributed to by Chad
Myers, Miles O'Brien, Gary Tuchman, Anderson Cooper, John Zarrella, Allan
Chernoff, Lucia Newman and Jason Carroll -CNN
20051022
-
Mexico
- Hurricane
Wilma - "Wilma's
120 Mph Winds Rip Mexico's Yucatan." ... "Ocean waves
surged over the narrow strip of land holding Cancun's resort hotels Saturday
as Hurricane Wilma crawled over Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, keeping some
30,000 tourists huddled in hotels and shelters amid shrieking winds and
shattering glass." ... "After battering Cozumel Island with 140 mph winds
Friday, Wilma came ashore overnight near Playa de Carmen in a sparsely
populated area of luxury resorts about 30 miles south of Cancun and creeped
toward this city, weakening to a Category 3 storm." -By
Will Weissert -AP
via -SFGate.com
20051021
-
Mexico
-
 US
- Florida
- "Wilma
Wreaks Her Havoc on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula."
... "Hurricane Wilma struck the Yucatan peninsula Friday, pounding beach
resorts and dozens of fishing hamlets with 140 mph winds and a 10-foot
storm surge that sent water crashing over Cancun's white-sand beaches and
into its exclusive hotel district." ... "The slow-moving hurricane reached
Cozumel Island south of here as a Category 4 storm just after dawn, weakening
slightly as it cut a swath across the peninsula. The eye of the storm was
expected to pass over Cancun during the early morning hours of Saturday
and then turn toward Florida, where authorities ordered a mandatory evacuation
of low-lying areas on the southwest coast." -By Sam
Enriquez and Hector Tobar with contributions by Carlos Martinez
-LAtimes
20051020
-
Weather
- Business
- "Oil,
Gasoline Fall to Lowest Since July as Wilma Threat Ebbs."
... "Crude oil dipped below $60 a barrel and gasoline plunged to the lowest
since July 1 as Hurricane Wilma became less of a threat to oil fields in
the Gulf of Mexico." ... "Prices surged to records after Hurricanes Katrina
and Rita shut U.S. offshore platforms in the region that's responsible
for 30 percent of the nation's oil production. U.S. oil and gasoline stockpiles
rose last week, according to an Energy Department report yesterday." ...
"Crude oil for November delivery fell $1.66, or 2.7 percent, to $60.75
a barrel at 1:05 p.m. on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Futures touched
$59.85, the lowest since July 29. Oil has declined 14 percent since reaching
a record $70.85 a barrel on Aug. 30, the day after Katrina made landfall.
Prices are up 11 percent from a year ago." -By Mark
Shenk -Bloomberg
-
Mexico
-
 Cuba
- Florida
- "Hurricane
Wilma spurs Mexico, Cuba, Florida exodus." ... "Hurricane
Wilma, which weakened to a still fierce Category 4 storm after breaking
intensity records in the Caribbean Sea, prompted widespread evacuations
as it neared the Gulf of Mexico early on Thursday." ... "Wilma became the
fiercest Category 5 Atlantic hurricane ever recorded on Wednesday as it
churned toward western Cuba and Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. Densely populated
southern Florida was in the storm's projected path in the coming days."
... "Wilma was expected to miss the oil and gas facilities in the Gulf
of Mexico but Florida's orange groves and sugar cane fields were at risk."
(1, 2)
-Reuters
20051019
-
History
- "Wilma
grows to most intense Atlantic storm ever." ... "Hurricane
Wilma strengthened dramatically into a Category 5 storm early Wednesday,
with forecasters saying the "potentially catastrophic" weather system was
the most powerful ever recorded in the Atlantic basin." ... "The storm
had a minimum air pressure reading of 882 millibars early Wednesday, according
to instruments a U.S. Air Force plane carried into its eye." ... "That
reading makes it "the lowest minimum pressure ever measured in a hurricane
in the Atlantic basin," according to the hurricane centre's website. Low
pressure corresponds with high wind speed, a measure of a hurricane's intensity."
-CBC.ca
-
Florida
- "Wilma
Becomes `Extremely Dangerous' Category 5 Storm (Update1)."
... "Hurricane Wilma has become an ``extremely dangerous'' Category 5 storm,
the U.S. National Hurricane Center said in its latest Web site advisory,
citing data from a reconnaissance aircraft." ... "The plane measured winds
of 175 mph (280 kph) up from 110 mph yesterday, the center said. Wilma
is likely to lessen to a Category 3 storm when it makes landfall on the
Florida peninsula on Oct. 22 or 23, said Jennifer Pralgo, a meteorologist
at the center." -By Friederike Peters
-Bloomberg
20051017
-
History
- "Wilma
Forms, Tying 1933 Atlantic Ocean Hurricane Season Record."
... "The Atlantic Ocean hurricane season tied a 1933 record for the busiest
ever as Tropical Storm Wilma formed today over the Caribbean Sea, causing
crude oil and natural gas prices to rise." ... "Wilma was about 220 miles
(354 kilometers) south-southeast of Grand Cayman at 11 a.m. Miami time,
the U.S. National Hurricane Center said in an online advisory. The system
is the 21st named tropical storm of the 2005 hurricane season." -By
Heather Burke and Alex Morales -Bloomberg
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