| Mon, 6 Sep 2010 Homes hit but growers count only blessings after floods
| THE cost of Victoria's worst floods in 15 years will exceed tens of millions of dollars with more than 300 homes affected by rising floodwater and the emergency far from over. | But as insurance companies begin to calculate the cost of damage from the weekend's h... | Quake city facing decade-long rebuild
| IT will be up to 10 years before Christchurch can be fully rebuilt after earthquake damage was greater than first thought. | Initial inspections have revealed structural cracks in many buildings and homes that appeared from the outside to have escaped major damage dur... | Insurers survive quake
| THE nation's insurers have emerged relatively unscathed from a weekend of natural disasters. | Disasters that include the Christchurch earthquake and the floods in northern Victoria. | Insurance Australia Group, which ranks ahead of Suncorp as the large... | Demolition job begins in Christchurch
| IT IS lunchtime in Christchurch and it's as if Matt Preston is walking on the roof of our car. | The shockwave rocks our big Ford from side to side. | Five metres away a shopper is sitting cross-legged on a step, braced against a door-frame. There is fear in his ... | Hurricane watch issued for coasts of Mexico, Texas
| Hermine could approach hurricane strength before making landfall early Tuesday in a sparsely populated area about 50 miles (80 kilometers) south of Matamoros, a city bordering Brownsville, Texas, according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami. | A hurricane watch... | USA catches a break this year with mild wildfire season
Posted | Comment | Recommend | | | By Lisa Holshue, AP Both in terms of total number of wildfires as well as acres burned, 2010 is rivaling 2003 for the least active year of the past decade. By Doyle Rice, USA TODAY The USA is enjoying an un... | Texas, Mexico prepare for Tropical Storm Hermine
Posted | Comment | Recommend | | | MIAMI (AP) — A hurricane watch has been issued for the coasts of Texas and Mexico in the Gulf as Tropical Storm Hermine approaches. | The hurricane watch issued Monday covers the area from Rio San Fernando, M... | Hermine prompts hurricane watches in Mexico, Texas
| MIAMI (AFP) – Newly formed tropical storm Hermine pushed north in the Gulf of Mexico Monday, strengthening as it headed towards the US-Mexico border area, and threatening storm surges and even mudslides, forecasters said. | Hermine, the eighth named storm of the... | |
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