Showing posts with label East Coast. Show all posts
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2011-12-28
New Years Eve Dining on the Shore - Oxford, MD
New Year's Eve Menus in the Dining Room and Tavern
For an evening that is a little less formal or where you would like to dine early the Robert Morris Inn has a great New Year's Eve menu and evening available in Salter's Tavern, here. The inn is offering one seating at 5.30pm and one at 8pm.
For those who wish to dine in the Robert Morris Inn's more elaborate Dining Room and enjoy a full Gala Event at The Inn, then choose the New Year's Eve Gala Menu available in The Main Dining Room and Tred Avon Room here. Seatings at indiviudal tables at any time of your choice are between 7pm and 9.30pm.
For those who wish to dine in the Robert Morris Inn's more elaborate Dining Room and enjoy a full Gala Event at The Inn, then choose the New Year's Eve Gala Menu available in The Main Dining Room and Tred Avon Room here. Seatings at indiviudal tables at any time of your choice are between 7pm and 9.30pm.
Robert Morris Inn at 410-226-5111 for reservations.
New Year's Eve Dining information sourced from
2011-09-01
East Coast Tries to Recover From Irene
Eastern US Tries to Recover From Irene
September 1st, 2011
VOA
Emergency crews in the eastern U.S. continue to help residents recover from a storm that ravaged the region, as floodwaters recede after rising to record levels.
Flooding devastated areas in the states of Vermont, Connecticut, New York and New Jersey after Hurricane Irene brought high winds and heavy rains to the eastern U.S. Irene hit North Carolina Saturday with 120 kilometer per hour winds, before moving up the East Coast and weakening.
Hundreds of thousands of people in the region are still without power, and many schools remain closed. Roads in the area are under repair.
In Vermont, emergency workers have airlifted food and water to thousands of residents stranded after floodwaters washed out roads and bridges, isolating some communities in the state's worst floods in nearly a century.
Irene is blamed for at least 45 deaths in the U.S. and five in the Caribbean, and has caused billions of dollars of damage. U.S. President Barack Obama signed disaster declarations for New York, New Jersey and North Carolina, making federal funding available for recovery efforts.
Mr. Obama is scheduled to visit the state of New Jersey on Sunday to view wind and flood damage from Irene.
Meanwhile, forecasters are monitoring Hurricane Katia in the Atlantic, which is moving northwest with maximum sustained winds of 120 kilometers per hour.
Katia is a Category One hurricane on the five-point scale of hurricane intensity, centered about 1,700 kilometers east of the Leeward Islands. The National Hurricane Center says Katia could become a major hurricane by Saturday.
It is the second Atlantic hurricane of the season.
The National Hurricane Center is also watching a storm moving northwest through the Gulf of Mexico, saying it could become a tropical cyclone in the next two days. It says U.S. Gulf Coast states should monitor the storm, which could produce rains that bring relief to drought-stricken Texas.
September is normally the peak of the hurricane season. Experts predicted an active 2011 hurricane season with eight to 10 hurricanes possible, which would be slightly more than normal.
September 1st, 2011
VOA
Emergency crews in the eastern U.S. continue to help residents recover from a storm that ravaged the region, as floodwaters recede after rising to record levels.
Flooding devastated areas in the states of Vermont, Connecticut, New York and New Jersey after Hurricane Irene brought high winds and heavy rains to the eastern U.S. Irene hit North Carolina Saturday with 120 kilometer per hour winds, before moving up the East Coast and weakening.
Hundreds of thousands of people in the region are still without power, and many schools remain closed. Roads in the area are under repair.
In Vermont, emergency workers have airlifted food and water to thousands of residents stranded after floodwaters washed out roads and bridges, isolating some communities in the state's worst floods in nearly a century.
Irene is blamed for at least 45 deaths in the U.S. and five in the Caribbean, and has caused billions of dollars of damage. U.S. President Barack Obama signed disaster declarations for New York, New Jersey and North Carolina, making federal funding available for recovery efforts.
Mr. Obama is scheduled to visit the state of New Jersey on Sunday to view wind and flood damage from Irene.
Meanwhile, forecasters are monitoring Hurricane Katia in the Atlantic, which is moving northwest with maximum sustained winds of 120 kilometers per hour.
Katia is a Category One hurricane on the five-point scale of hurricane intensity, centered about 1,700 kilometers east of the Leeward Islands. The National Hurricane Center says Katia could become a major hurricane by Saturday.
It is the second Atlantic hurricane of the season.
The National Hurricane Center is also watching a storm moving northwest through the Gulf of Mexico, saying it could become a tropical cyclone in the next two days. It says U.S. Gulf Coast states should monitor the storm, which could produce rains that bring relief to drought-stricken Texas.
September is normally the peak of the hurricane season. Experts predicted an active 2011 hurricane season with eight to 10 hurricanes possible, which would be slightly more than normal.
2011-08-28
Tropical Storm Irene Brings Death, Flooding to East Coast
Massive Tropical Storm Brings Death, Flooding to US East Coast
Michael Bowman | Washington
August 28, 2011
VOA
Days after withstanding a rare earthquake, large swaths of the densely populated U.S. East Coast have weathered Irene, a once-powerful hurricane later downgraded to a tropical storm. Irene drenched New York Sunday after coming ashore over coastal areas farther south. At least 18 deaths are blamed on the storm, which prompted a massive mobilization of federal, state and local governments.
For three days, Irene pummeled the U.S. East Coast with high winds and torrential rains. Although no communities were obliterated, destruction is widespread over thousands of square kilometers with flooding, downed trees, damaged homes, power outages and impassable roads.
One Washington D.C. resident, who identified himself as Leonard, survived a harrowing night with his family after a giant tree fell on his home.
“It seemed like a pretty tame storm, and then all of a sudden these big oak trees started falling down on houses," he said. "[I was] very scared. I have two little kids, a two-and-a-half year-old and a one-year-old.”
Untold numbers of travelers were stranded amid thousands of canceled flights. Irene prompted New York City’s first-ever subway closure due to a natural event.
But stoic New Yorkers seemed to take the storm in stride, including grocery store owner Faris Algabbon.
“Everybody buys a lot of stuff - for nothing. Nothing happened," he said. "We only closed for a couple hours. Now we are open, and now we are good to go.”
Unlike last week’s sudden earthquake, Irene's arrival was anticipated days in advance. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg had a simple message for residents.
“Everyone should be prepared to go inside and stay inside,” he said.
In many areas, a prolonged period of clean-up and recovery awaits.
“We do not know how much damage has been done, how many trees are down on [train] tracks across New Jersey," said New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. "Clearing trees from our roadways.”
From Washington, a promise of federal assistance, and a warning issued by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.
“We are not out of the woods [safe from potential harm] yet," she said. "Irene remains a large and potentially dangerous storm. Hazards still persist in communities that have already seen the storm pass.”
Hurricane or no, some events would not be postponed, including one New York wedding. A beaming bride, Sammy Miller, spoke from the steps of her church. “It is too important of a day to miss,” she said.
And some babies could not wait to be born. In a Wilmington, North Carolina hospital, Kristen Elliot cradled her infant daughter. "I just kind of felt that she [the baby] was going to come right during the hurricane,” she said.
Irene’s remnants are expected to dissipate over Canada later Monday.
Michael Bowman | Washington
August 28, 2011
VOA
Days after withstanding a rare earthquake, large swaths of the densely populated U.S. East Coast have weathered Irene, a once-powerful hurricane later downgraded to a tropical storm. Irene drenched New York Sunday after coming ashore over coastal areas farther south. At least 18 deaths are blamed on the storm, which prompted a massive mobilization of federal, state and local governments.
For three days, Irene pummeled the U.S. East Coast with high winds and torrential rains. Although no communities were obliterated, destruction is widespread over thousands of square kilometers with flooding, downed trees, damaged homes, power outages and impassable roads.
One Washington D.C. resident, who identified himself as Leonard, survived a harrowing night with his family after a giant tree fell on his home.
“It seemed like a pretty tame storm, and then all of a sudden these big oak trees started falling down on houses," he said. "[I was] very scared. I have two little kids, a two-and-a-half year-old and a one-year-old.”
Untold numbers of travelers were stranded amid thousands of canceled flights. Irene prompted New York City’s first-ever subway closure due to a natural event.
But stoic New Yorkers seemed to take the storm in stride, including grocery store owner Faris Algabbon.
“Everybody buys a lot of stuff - for nothing. Nothing happened," he said. "We only closed for a couple hours. Now we are open, and now we are good to go.”
Unlike last week’s sudden earthquake, Irene's arrival was anticipated days in advance. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg had a simple message for residents.
“Everyone should be prepared to go inside and stay inside,” he said.
In many areas, a prolonged period of clean-up and recovery awaits.
“We do not know how much damage has been done, how many trees are down on [train] tracks across New Jersey," said New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. "Clearing trees from our roadways.”
From Washington, a promise of federal assistance, and a warning issued by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.
“We are not out of the woods [safe from potential harm] yet," she said. "Irene remains a large and potentially dangerous storm. Hazards still persist in communities that have already seen the storm pass.”
Hurricane or no, some events would not be postponed, including one New York wedding. A beaming bride, Sammy Miller, spoke from the steps of her church. “It is too important of a day to miss,” she said.
And some babies could not wait to be born. In a Wilmington, North Carolina hospital, Kristen Elliot cradled her infant daughter. "I just kind of felt that she [the baby] was going to come right during the hurricane,” she said.
Irene’s remnants are expected to dissipate over Canada later Monday.
Hurrican Irene Update - 7 Dead, 1.5 Million without power
Seven Dead as Hurricane Irene Churns Up US East Coast
Powerful storm pummels eastern US with heavy rains, strong winds, leaving 1.5 million without power
Alex Villarreal | Washington, DC
August 27, 2011
VOA
Hurricane Irene continues to pound the U.S. East Coast with heavy rains and strong winds, leaving at least seven people dead in its wake and paralyzing ground and air traffic.
New York started feeling the effects of the hurricane Saturday shortly before midnight, with winds increasing early Sunday. Forecasters say Irene will move into southern New England in the northeastern U.S. by Sunday afternoon before reaching Canada Sunday night.
Irene blasted ashore in North Carolina early Saturday, flooding streets and toppling trees with sustained winds of 140 kilometer per hour. The storm later moved into the Washington area, which continues to be hit with strong winds, heavy rain, localized flooding and falling trees.
More than 1.5 million homes and businesses are without power in the eastern U.S, with at least seven people killed. Tens of millions of people are in the path of the storm, which is passing through some of the country's most densely populated areas, with winds of 130 kilometers per hour. Tornadoes spurned by the hurrican destroyed homes in Delaware and Virginia.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center said the massive storm system is expected to continue moving north-northeast at about 24 kilometers per hour.
American Red Cross spokesperson Kate Meier is in North Carolina, and told VOA that even away from the coast, conditions are worrying.
"When I was driving to the shelter, a tree branch hit the windshield of my car, which was terrifying. Fortunately everything was okay, and that's what we're seeing here is some downed branches, but hopefully not a lot of damage in this immediate area. But knowing that I'm 150 miles [241 kilometers] inland and that it's that much worse on the coast is pretty frightening," said Meier.
Along with organizations like the Red Cross, federal, state and local authorities have mobilized resources to confront the storm, which is on track to move up the U.S. East Coast.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said officials anticipate heavy rain, flooding and significant power outages throughout the region. There also is a threat of tornadoes.
"Irene remains a large and dangerous storm. People need to take it seriously. People need to be prepared," she said.
Top emergency coordinators in Washington also got a visit Saturday from President Barack Obama.
"This is still obviously going to be a touch-and-go situation for a lot of communities," said the president.
Already there have been large-scale evacuations and thousands of flight cancellations.
In New York City, the entire public transit system, including subway trains and buses, shut down Saturday for the first time ever. Red Cross spokesman Steve Bayer is on New York's Long Island, where he said the organization is prepared with shelters that can care for thousands of people.
"We have registered nurses, and in some cases, even doctors. And we have a lot of mental health professionals that come to us, volunteer their time to work in our shelters, because it is a pretty heavy load for people who have left their house. They don't know where their animals are," said Bayer.
The Red Cross said its response to Irene could be one of the largest it has undertaken in recent memory.
The organization is responding in more than a dozen states, and said it could take weeks, even months, to be able to fully address the disaster.
National Hurricane Center forecaster Todd Kimberlain said the problem with Irene is its path.
"It's dangerous in the sense that this part of the country is not used to receiving many hurricane strikes. In fact, New England has not received a hurricane strike in 20 years. [In] the mid-Atlantic states, the last hurricane was Isabel in 2003, so this is a significant weather system for this part of the country," he said.
Kimberlain also said Irene is not the strongest hurricane, and nowhere close to 2005's devastating Hurricane Katrina, but he says it is still capable of causing damage.
Powerful storm pummels eastern US with heavy rains, strong winds, leaving 1.5 million without power
Alex Villarreal | Washington, DC
August 27, 2011
VOA
Hurricane Irene continues to pound the U.S. East Coast with heavy rains and strong winds, leaving at least seven people dead in its wake and paralyzing ground and air traffic.
New York started feeling the effects of the hurricane Saturday shortly before midnight, with winds increasing early Sunday. Forecasters say Irene will move into southern New England in the northeastern U.S. by Sunday afternoon before reaching Canada Sunday night.
Irene blasted ashore in North Carolina early Saturday, flooding streets and toppling trees with sustained winds of 140 kilometer per hour. The storm later moved into the Washington area, which continues to be hit with strong winds, heavy rain, localized flooding and falling trees.
More than 1.5 million homes and businesses are without power in the eastern U.S, with at least seven people killed. Tens of millions of people are in the path of the storm, which is passing through some of the country's most densely populated areas, with winds of 130 kilometers per hour. Tornadoes spurned by the hurrican destroyed homes in Delaware and Virginia.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center said the massive storm system is expected to continue moving north-northeast at about 24 kilometers per hour.
American Red Cross spokesperson Kate Meier is in North Carolina, and told VOA that even away from the coast, conditions are worrying.
"When I was driving to the shelter, a tree branch hit the windshield of my car, which was terrifying. Fortunately everything was okay, and that's what we're seeing here is some downed branches, but hopefully not a lot of damage in this immediate area. But knowing that I'm 150 miles [241 kilometers] inland and that it's that much worse on the coast is pretty frightening," said Meier.
Along with organizations like the Red Cross, federal, state and local authorities have mobilized resources to confront the storm, which is on track to move up the U.S. East Coast.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said officials anticipate heavy rain, flooding and significant power outages throughout the region. There also is a threat of tornadoes.
"Irene remains a large and dangerous storm. People need to take it seriously. People need to be prepared," she said.
Top emergency coordinators in Washington also got a visit Saturday from President Barack Obama.
"This is still obviously going to be a touch-and-go situation for a lot of communities," said the president.
Already there have been large-scale evacuations and thousands of flight cancellations.
In New York City, the entire public transit system, including subway trains and buses, shut down Saturday for the first time ever. Red Cross spokesman Steve Bayer is on New York's Long Island, where he said the organization is prepared with shelters that can care for thousands of people.
"We have registered nurses, and in some cases, even doctors. And we have a lot of mental health professionals that come to us, volunteer their time to work in our shelters, because it is a pretty heavy load for people who have left their house. They don't know where their animals are," said Bayer.
The Red Cross said its response to Irene could be one of the largest it has undertaken in recent memory.
The organization is responding in more than a dozen states, and said it could take weeks, even months, to be able to fully address the disaster.
National Hurricane Center forecaster Todd Kimberlain said the problem with Irene is its path.
"It's dangerous in the sense that this part of the country is not used to receiving many hurricane strikes. In fact, New England has not received a hurricane strike in 20 years. [In] the mid-Atlantic states, the last hurricane was Isabel in 2003, so this is a significant weather system for this part of the country," he said.
Kimberlain also said Irene is not the strongest hurricane, and nowhere close to 2005's devastating Hurricane Katrina, but he says it is still capable of causing damage.
2011-08-27
Hurricane Irene - Four Dead as hurricane is pummeling the eastern USA
Four Dead as Hurricane Irene Slams US
Alex Villarreal | Washington, DC
August 27, 2011
VOA
Hurricane Irene is pummeling the eastern United States with heavy rain and strong winds, after claiming the lives of at least four people. U.S. officials say three people were killed in North Carolina and one in Virginia.
Violent winds, intense rains, massive power outages are deadly signs that Hurricane Irene has hit the United States.
The powerful storm barreled ashore Saturday in the eastern state of North Carolina, flooding streets and toppling trees with sustained winds of 140 kilometer per hour. More than 630,000 homes and businesses are without power.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center said the massive storm system is expected to continue moving north-northeast at about 24 kilometers per hour. Forecasters warned the category 1 storm would pass through the Washington, D. C., area during the evening and overnight hours without losing strength.
American Red Cross spokesperson Kate Meier is in North Carolina, and told VOA that even away from the coast, conditions are worrying.
"When I was driving to the shelter, a tree branch hit the windshield of my car, which was terrifying. Fortunately everything was okay, and that's what we're seeing here is some downed branches, but hopefully not a lot of damage in this immediate area. But knowing that I'm 150 miles [241 kilometers] inland and that it's that much worse on the coast is pretty frightening," said Meier.
Along with organizations like the Red Cross, federal, state and local authorities have mobilized resources to confront the storm, which is on track to move up the U.S. East Coast.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said officials anticipate heavy rain, flooding and significant power outages throughout the region. There also is a threat of tornadoes.
"Irene remains a large and dangerous storm. People need to take it seriously. People need to be prepared," she said.
Top emergency coordinators in Washington also got a visit Saturday from President Barack Obama.
"This is still obviously going to be a touch-and-go situation for a lot of communities," said the president.
Already there have been large-scale evacuations and thousands of flight cancellations.
In New York City, the entire public transit system, including subway trains and buses, shut down Saturday for the first time ever.
The storm is expected to reach the city and its surrounding areas on Sunday. Red Cross spokesman Steve Bayer is on New York's Long Island, where he said the organization is prepared with shelters that can care for thousands of people.
"We have registered nurses, and in some cases, even doctors. And we have a lot of mental health professionals that come to us, volunteer their time to work in our shelters, because it is a pretty heavy load for people who have left their house. They don't know where their animals are," said Bayer.
The Red Cross said its response to Irene could be one of the largest it has undertaken in recent memory.
The organization is responding in more than a dozen states, and said it could take weeks, even months, to be able to fully address the disaster.
National Hurricane Center forecaster Todd Kimberlain said the problem with Irene is its path.
"It's dangerous in the sense that this part of the country is not used to receiving many hurricane strikes. In fact, New England has not received a hurricane strike in 20 years. [In] the mid-Atlantic states, the last hurricane was Isabel in 2003, so this is a significant weather system for this part of the country," he said.
Kimberlain also said Irene is not the strongest hurricane, and nowhere close to 2005's devastating Hurricane Katrina, but he says it is still capable of causing damage.
Alex Villarreal | Washington, DC
August 27, 2011
VOA
Hurricane Irene is pummeling the eastern United States with heavy rain and strong winds, after claiming the lives of at least four people. U.S. officials say three people were killed in North Carolina and one in Virginia.
Violent winds, intense rains, massive power outages are deadly signs that Hurricane Irene has hit the United States.
The powerful storm barreled ashore Saturday in the eastern state of North Carolina, flooding streets and toppling trees with sustained winds of 140 kilometer per hour. More than 630,000 homes and businesses are without power.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center said the massive storm system is expected to continue moving north-northeast at about 24 kilometers per hour. Forecasters warned the category 1 storm would pass through the Washington, D. C., area during the evening and overnight hours without losing strength.
American Red Cross spokesperson Kate Meier is in North Carolina, and told VOA that even away from the coast, conditions are worrying.
"When I was driving to the shelter, a tree branch hit the windshield of my car, which was terrifying. Fortunately everything was okay, and that's what we're seeing here is some downed branches, but hopefully not a lot of damage in this immediate area. But knowing that I'm 150 miles [241 kilometers] inland and that it's that much worse on the coast is pretty frightening," said Meier.
Along with organizations like the Red Cross, federal, state and local authorities have mobilized resources to confront the storm, which is on track to move up the U.S. East Coast.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said officials anticipate heavy rain, flooding and significant power outages throughout the region. There also is a threat of tornadoes.
"Irene remains a large and dangerous storm. People need to take it seriously. People need to be prepared," she said.
Top emergency coordinators in Washington also got a visit Saturday from President Barack Obama.
"This is still obviously going to be a touch-and-go situation for a lot of communities," said the president.
Already there have been large-scale evacuations and thousands of flight cancellations.
In New York City, the entire public transit system, including subway trains and buses, shut down Saturday for the first time ever.
The storm is expected to reach the city and its surrounding areas on Sunday. Red Cross spokesman Steve Bayer is on New York's Long Island, where he said the organization is prepared with shelters that can care for thousands of people.
"We have registered nurses, and in some cases, even doctors. And we have a lot of mental health professionals that come to us, volunteer their time to work in our shelters, because it is a pretty heavy load for people who have left their house. They don't know where their animals are," said Bayer.
The Red Cross said its response to Irene could be one of the largest it has undertaken in recent memory.
The organization is responding in more than a dozen states, and said it could take weeks, even months, to be able to fully address the disaster.
National Hurricane Center forecaster Todd Kimberlain said the problem with Irene is its path.
"It's dangerous in the sense that this part of the country is not used to receiving many hurricane strikes. In fact, New England has not received a hurricane strike in 20 years. [In] the mid-Atlantic states, the last hurricane was Isabel in 2003, so this is a significant weather system for this part of the country," he said.
Kimberlain also said Irene is not the strongest hurricane, and nowhere close to 2005's devastating Hurricane Katrina, but he says it is still capable of causing damage.
Hurricane Irene Arrives - East Coast USA
US Launches Huge Hurricane Response as Irene Arrives
Sean Maroney | Washington
August 27, 2011
VOA
The federal and state governments, as well as humanitarian agencies and local groups up and down much of the eastern United States, are in the middle of a massive storm response, as Hurricane Irene makes landfall.
Weather forecasters expect the storm's center to focus on the heavily populated corridor from Washington to New York. The storm already has killed at least one person in Puerto Rico and two in the Dominican Republic and destroyed homes in The Bahamas.
U.S. officials are not taking any chances as Hurricane Irene moves up America's east coast with the potential of affecting 65 million people and causing billions of dollars in damage.
Major airports are closing down for the storm, and train services in parts of the eastern U.S. are suspended. Authorities also ordered a quarter of a million people to leave low-lying areas of New York, marking the city's first-ever mass evacuation. In addition, officials closed the city's entire public transit system for the first time.
A few hours ahead of Irene's early Saturday landfall in North Carolina, state authorities were reporting flooding, power outages and tornado warnings.
Speaking from the eastern part of the state, American Red Cross spokesman Chris Osborne told VOA he and his fellow relief workers were forced to join those evacuating from the coast. But he said that despite the challenges, his organization was working at full speed.
Osborne said, "We've got probably somewhere in the neighborhood of 300 people or so in various shelters. There's probably more than a dozen shelters open in the North Carolina area. And we've got some 70-plus shelters that are on standby, so certainly lots of areas for people who are evacuating."
Osborne says the Red Cross has workers from North Carolina in the south, all the way north past New York. While they are focused mainly on providing the basics of food, shelter and water, he says they have many other tools at their disposal, especially for those who might lose everything.
He said, "We have trained counselors that help people deal with the emotional needs that arise sometimes from these kinds of disasters, so just a wide gambit of resources."
Irene is the first hurricane to seriously threaten the United States in three years. It also hits at the six-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, whose flooding killed more than 1,800 people and forced more than a million residents from their homes in the southeastern United States.
The federal response to Katrina was widely criticized as slow and mismanaged, and Osborne says the Red Cross is mindful of that as they mobilize against Irene.
Osborne said, "Every disaster is different. Every disaster is a learning opportunity. We think we learned a lot from Hurricane Katrina, and we think we're better positioned and better ready to serve the people who need us."
He says the Red Cross is working very closely with community partners and government agencies in the relief efforts. U.S. President Barack Obama also has directed federal agencies to ensure all the needed resources are available.
Sean Maroney | Washington
August 27, 2011
VOA
The federal and state governments, as well as humanitarian agencies and local groups up and down much of the eastern United States, are in the middle of a massive storm response, as Hurricane Irene makes landfall.
Weather forecasters expect the storm's center to focus on the heavily populated corridor from Washington to New York. The storm already has killed at least one person in Puerto Rico and two in the Dominican Republic and destroyed homes in The Bahamas.
U.S. officials are not taking any chances as Hurricane Irene moves up America's east coast with the potential of affecting 65 million people and causing billions of dollars in damage.
Major airports are closing down for the storm, and train services in parts of the eastern U.S. are suspended. Authorities also ordered a quarter of a million people to leave low-lying areas of New York, marking the city's first-ever mass evacuation. In addition, officials closed the city's entire public transit system for the first time.
A few hours ahead of Irene's early Saturday landfall in North Carolina, state authorities were reporting flooding, power outages and tornado warnings.
Speaking from the eastern part of the state, American Red Cross spokesman Chris Osborne told VOA he and his fellow relief workers were forced to join those evacuating from the coast. But he said that despite the challenges, his organization was working at full speed.
Osborne said, "We've got probably somewhere in the neighborhood of 300 people or so in various shelters. There's probably more than a dozen shelters open in the North Carolina area. And we've got some 70-plus shelters that are on standby, so certainly lots of areas for people who are evacuating."
Osborne says the Red Cross has workers from North Carolina in the south, all the way north past New York. While they are focused mainly on providing the basics of food, shelter and water, he says they have many other tools at their disposal, especially for those who might lose everything.
He said, "We have trained counselors that help people deal with the emotional needs that arise sometimes from these kinds of disasters, so just a wide gambit of resources."
Irene is the first hurricane to seriously threaten the United States in three years. It also hits at the six-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, whose flooding killed more than 1,800 people and forced more than a million residents from their homes in the southeastern United States.
The federal response to Katrina was widely criticized as slow and mismanaged, and Osborne says the Red Cross is mindful of that as they mobilize against Irene.
Osborne said, "Every disaster is different. Every disaster is a learning opportunity. We think we learned a lot from Hurricane Katrina, and we think we're better positioned and better ready to serve the people who need us."
He says the Red Cross is working very closely with community partners and government agencies in the relief efforts. U.S. President Barack Obama also has directed federal agencies to ensure all the needed resources are available.
2011-08-26
Hurricane Irene - Eastern U.S. states are scrambling to prepare...
Hurricane Irene Video Clip 25 August 2011
Hurricane Irene pounded the Bahamas with winds as high as 115 miles per hour (185 kilometers per hour)
Hurricane Irene pounded the Bahamas with winds as high as 115 miles per hour (185 kilometers per hour)
2011-08-23
East Coast Earthquake - 5.8 magnitude
A 5.8 magnitude earthquake shook much of the east coast Tuesday afternoon, shaking buildings and sending people into the streets. The U.S. Geological Survey says the east coast earthquake was centered near Mineral, Virginia. The quake was the strongest one in Virginia since 1897.
2011-04-20
American Chestnut Tree History
Blight leaves native American chestnut out on limb
Past is Prologue / By Dr. Kent Mountford - Bay Journal“In some parts were found some chestnuts, whose wild fruit equalize the best in France, Spain, Germany and Italy.” — Capt. John Smith, Generall Historie, 1624
This quote from the watershed’s first English explorer/chronicler at first seems faint praise for the American chestnut (Castanea dentata) which would subsequently be described by others as “the most valuable and usable tree that ever grew in the Eastern United States.” A careful look at the chestnut’s natural range, though, reveals that it was not an abundant species in the parts of Southeast Virginia and the Delmarva Eastern Shore where John Smith spent most of his two years (1607–09). In fact, the chestnut was not a dominant forest species in much of the pre-settlement Chesapeake coastal plain and some areas of the watershed.
The abundance of chestnuts may have been underreported. An uncertain (the plant specimen has been lost) collection of American chestnuts by 17th century botanists was originally misidentified as an oak (Quercus mariana) and palynologist Grace Brush of Johns Hopkins University suggests that early settlers may have confused true chestnuts with the chestnut oak (Quercus prinus) during the months when nuts and flowers are absent.
Many early land surveys, especially in Pennsylvania and New York, used sentinel trees to mark boundaries, which might give us an idea about the relative abundance of some species. Chestnuts were used as markers in 5–15 percent, and in some cases, 25 percent of the time. In the same areas, white oak (Quercus alba) was used 25–65 percent of the time and to the north, American beech (Fagus grandifolia) made up 25–75 percent of the markers.
This comparison may not be precise, though, especially if the surveys were made on land suitable for farming, which is flatter than the hilly habitat preferred by chestnuts. Some authorities in Pennsylvania even list chestnut as the dominant tree in the state prior to the American Revolution.
Parts of the James River basin, a high and hilly region with relatively poor, but well-drained soils, contained extensive areas of nearly pure chestnut stands with 100-foot high canopies. One record tells of a giant tree with a 17-foot diameter.
In any case, the chestnut was of great economic importance in the Appalachian areas of what would become Maryland and Pennsylvania. Experts estimated that it represented half of the commercial value of all Eastern North American hardwoods. Eastern loggers sometimes filled an entire train with the straight-grained saw timber from a single giant chestnut.
The chestnut’s increasing abundance may reflect the effects of European settlement on the composition of North American forests.
In 1894, J.T. Rothrock, writing about Pennsylvania’s forests, said that it was the only species that regenerated from stump sprouts as fast as it was cut by greedy 19th century wood harvesters. The practice of “coppicing” or cutting young trees to encourage the growth of shoots, was pretty general.
One writer said of American chestnut: “Hence there is a happy increase of these valuable trees over others in the country.”
Humans are meddlers. Not satisfied with just one chestnut, efforts were made to add others to our horticultural inventory. It began with Thomas Jefferson who, after his diplomatic tour in Europe, imported the European, or Spanish chestnut (Castanea sativa) and grafted it onto native root stocks at Monticello. In 1876, S.B. Parsons, a nurseryman in Flushing, NY, imported the Japanese chestnut (C. crenata). More were brought over in 1882 and 1886.
The Chinese chestnut (C. Molissima) was brought here in 1900 by G.D. Brill from Hankow and Ichang. More arrived from Canton in 1902; most going to a seed nursery in Bell, MD, to see how they could be exploited as ornamentals and nut producers.
In 1904, sharp-eyed nurserymen at the Bronx Zoo found odd cankers on American chestnut shade trees lining the park’s avenues. Beginning with a crack or injury in the bark, they either formed a swelling or a depressed area that would eventually girdle the twig, branch or tree and kill it. While temporary survival is possible as limb after limb dies, the eventual loss of each tree is inevitable.
It spread quickly across New Jersey and southern New England, and was known as Chestnut blight. By 1906, W.A. Murrill reported “the disease is known to occur also in New Jersey, Maryland, the District of Columbia and Virginia.”
Oblivious to the blight and unaware of the coming disaster, Arthur Emerson and Clarence Weed’s 1908 tree book featured the chestnut in its frontispiece, and called it “one of the best known of all the trees of the forest … one of the most promising trees for forestry planting.”
Horticulturalists, too smart by half, found a blight-free area in Pennsylvania and quickly brought in a bunch of the imported trees to form an experiment station. It is likely that the blight was transported with them to create a new epicenter of disease and accelerate its disastrous spread. The blight was transported into minute bark-wounds by boring and flying insects and woodpeckers. All efforts at control were fruitless.
In 1913, botanical explorer Frank Meyer went to Asia and found the source of the cankers: an ascomycete fungus, (Endothelia parasitica renamed in 1978 to Cryphonectria parasitica). He also discovered that the Asian chestnuts are more resistant than the American trees.
Within about four decades, almost all of these remarkable native trees were gone, creating ecosystem shockwaves that still reverberate on the Eastern Seaboard. By 1940, virtually all — an estimated 4 billion — American chestnuts were dead or infected with the blight. Along Appalachian mountain ridges, tall, gaunt skeletons of these once magnificent trees stood — rot resistant — for decades.
Chestnuts became the dominant wood processed at Pennsylvania sawmills in the early 1900s, which Brush says is the result of salvage logging to make use of the dead and dying trees.
In 1912, Congress passed the Plant Quarantine Act, which has helped to reduce, but never eliminated the chance for such a catastrophe to occur again. With the onset of World War I in 1914 and the Great Depression in 1929, resources to study or remedy the infection were all but shut off, assuring the virtual extinction of this marvelous tree.
The American chestnut grew well where the soils were shallow and poor and on slopes, often facing north and east, and at altitudes up to 4,000 feet. It disliked poorly drained, limestone-based soils. The presence of tulip poplars today sometimes indicates the past distribution of chestnuts.
This was the case when we explored the forests surrounding our home on Osborn Cove after we moved there in 1974. At the time, tulip or ‘yellow’ poplars (Liriodendron tulipifera) rose in 100-foot colonnades in two valleys sloping steeply toward a creek. Ring counts on their trunks indicated that the largest of these trees had germinated in the early years of the 20th century.
Former residents said that at the turn of the 20th century, groves of American chestnut covered these north-facing slopes and that people would gather the nuts once their burs had opened.
These were either bartered locally for dry goods (One recollection from Kentucky, circa 1898-99, said the worth of a gallon of nuts was equivalent to 12 to 15 cents.) or taken to Baltimore and sold roasted on the streets. Workers in the field ate them raw, roasted them on a shovel over a campfire or put them in a low oven at home for 20 minutes, having scored around the husk so they’d open easily when hot.
A core driven 87 centimeters into the bottom of Quicksand Pond on our property that dated back to the 18th century was analyzed by Deb Willard and colleagues at the U.S. Geological Survey for the pollen history trapped in its muddy depths. The bottom — and therefore oldest — part of the core showed that chestnut pollen was present in the 18th through the 19th century, but had abruptly vanished early in the 20th century. As this important canopy species suddenly died, the erosion of sediment into the pond sharply increased, accumulating as much in 50 years as it had in the previous 150.
We found the fallen skeleton of an immense American chestnut in 1974 at the head of one of our valleys, where it had crashed after dying in the 1920s or 30s. Its trunk was only about a yard in diameter.
About midcentury, the land’s former owners had gathered and split straight portions of the trunks and limbs from these fallen sentinels to build a “stitch” fence, almost 200 feet long with rails laid in zig-zag rows atop each other.
Chestnut is extraordinarily durable for fencing where it comes into contact with the earth. While the consumption of wood was great — a Virginia rail fence requires about 800 rails of 4-inch diameter, 10 or 11 feet long, to enclose a single acre — farmers avoided the arduous labor of digging post holes and the greater loss to rot of buried fence posts. The fence near our property, for example, lasted to the beginning of this millennium.
The fallen tree in our valley had been there half a century when we came upon it in 1974; and during a wet, winter walk in 2002, I found it again, its remains still strong and long enough to build another, if a trifle moldy, fence!
A lot of chestnuts went into railroad ties in the 19th century. Because they grew straight and tall without lower branches in close woodland habitat, chestnuts were ideal for telegraph and telephone poles. Their durability eliminated the need for creosote or today’s CCA (copper-chrome-arsenate) preservatives with their toxic effects.
Chestnut’s straight grain and tendency to split true, made it ideal for tobacco sticks as well. “Hands” or bunches of leaves were placed over these sticks and hung from rafters in curing barns during the preparation of this valuable colonial product for market.
Chestnut was also easily split into firewood. In 1850, 90 percent of the fuel used in the United States came from firewood, and the figure was still 50 percent in 1880. The energy value of chestnut, though, is only 63 percent that of hickory, and 73 percent that of the more common red oak. The USDA ranks chestnut 12th of 16 in energy content among major native woods used as fuel.
Chestnut was ideal for kindling, and when used in the front of a fireplace it burned brightly enough to light rooms, thus conserving expensive candles in the days before electricity. It also produced a quick, hot fire for hearth or cook stove.
It was eminently durable in house and barn construction as well, stronger and lighter than oak. Many of the chestnut sills in surviving log cabins are intact after centuries, despite termites and without care other than shelter from excessive rainfall.
When a parent tree dies from the blight, a stump-sprout response, similar to its reaction to coppicing, often occurs, with small trees rising over a decade or two, perhaps even bearing a crop of nuts, then dying like their forebears.
Northeast of the big downed chestnut at Osborn Cove, one stump sprout grew, setting its last nut crop in the 1980s. It died in 1999. I cut and saved the base of its trunk as a remnant.
The USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service suggests stump-sprouts, with their extensive nitrogen-hungry root systems, might be ideal contributors to natural riparian buffers which protect adjacent streams. Carry on, old trees!
Chestnut’s importance to wildlife was immense. Nut gatherers had to be up early to compete with large flocks of wild turkeys that gorged on the fruits during their three-week falling period. Little wonder someone had the idea to put chestnut stuffing in the holiday roast turkey!
The turkeys would sometimes adopt a threat posture, wings wide-spread, and leap or “dance” to scare away deer who had the same feeding objective.
Chestnuts flower long after the last frost and until the blight struck, provided a reliable crop each year. Red oak acorns, another important source of food for wildlife, take two years to develop. Late spring frosts two years in a row that kill its flowers, set the acorn cycle back and can prove disastrous for species like squirrels, which are dependent on them for food.
This might be the case for the Allegheny wood rat, (Neotoma magister) population, which has declined and been extirpated in parts of its range since chestnuts disappeared.
The Chinese chestnuts that today line the path to Osborn Cove on Maryland’s Patuxent are half a century old and extremely productive. In 2000, the largest two produced about 2,800 nuts and in 2001, more than 3,000.
Because turkeys are timid near the house, deer and squirrels are the primary beneficiaries, the former pawing the needle-sharp burs open with a hoof and delicately lifting out the nuts with their mouths. I am left to remove these thousands of burs so that we may safely tread the path in bare feet or sandals — which is how I annually estimate the productivity of these trees.
The Chinese chestnut has a single large nut in most burs, with two smaller ones usually compressed to one side within the spiny involucre. We freeze them because most have “the worm,” a parasite that enters the nut via eggs laid during flowering. The nuts are meaty and tasty, but those who’ve savored the native American species, say the originals are much sweeter.
Chestnuts were as popular a food with Native Americans as they were with native wildlife. They also used its serrate, dark green leaves to brew a tea they claimed controlled coughs. Colonists also found it had a sedative effect on the respiratory system and mixed the extracted tea with honey to make a more soothing, palatable syrup. Extractum castanea fluidum was even included in the United States Pharmacopoeia between 1873 and 1905.
Attempts to salvage the species began as early as 1915, when Meyer suggested hybridization using the resistant species. This approach has been carried out with variations ever since.
A biological control organism for the blight fungus was imported from Europe in 1972. It causes hypovirulence, thus weakening the virus and slowing its advance. This has permitted some American chestnut trees to survive as a seed source, but it is not a cure, only a stopgap.
Today, nurseries from Maine to Georgia sell hybrids with the non-native species by mail order. Seeds are still collected in the hope of breeding blight-resistant natives, and there are web sites for the American Chestnut Foundation and the American Chestnut Cooperators’ Foundation, both advocacy groups for restoring the resource.
As if all that weren’t enough, in 1974, a small wasp native to Asia, (Dryocosmus kuriphilus) was brought to the United States. The female Oriental chestnut gall wasp lays eggs in chestnut leaf and flower buds that irritate the plant, causing it to produce protective tissue galls. Heavy infestations can kill the trees, and it afflicts both American and Chinese chestnuts at the southern end of their ranges.
In the Eastern part of the Chesapeake watershed, one might encounter a similar but smaller tree: the Allegheny chinquapin (Castanea pumila). It was one of the species described by John Smith in 1612 and was one of the first North American plants that explorers took back and are cultivated in England.
It’s just as edible as the chestnut, only the nuts are smaller and the spines shorter. Chinquapin is resistant to the the gall wasp.
The loss of the American chestnut was devastating for Eastern forests and a deep sorrow for a whole generation of Americans. It stands as a warning to all, who for any purpose, however well-intended, would introduce new organisms to North America.
The intent is not what matters. It is the unanticipated, unintended, unpredictable consequences that can, without warning, shake already stressed ecosystems to their core and penalize those who live afterward for a very long time.
Dr. Kent Mountford is an environmental historian and estuarine ecologist.
Article from Bay Journal
April 2002
2011-04-19
Cape Wind Energy Project - U.S. Approves First Offshore Wind Farm
U.S. Approves First Offshore Wind Farm
VOA - Tuesday, April 19th, 2011
The U.S. government has approved a controversial plan to build the country's first ocean wind farm in a picturesque bay off its northeast coast.
U.S. Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar said Tuesday construction of the Cape Wind Energy Project could begin as early as this fall in Nantucket Sound off the coast of the state of Massachusetts
The wind farm plan includes 130 wind turbine generators, each with a maximum blade height of 134 meters. The German company Siemens will build the turbines.
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick said the plan puts the U.S. “one step closer” to benefiting from green jobs, clean energy and the long-term economic advantages resulting from the nation's first offshore wind farm.
The plan has sparked controversy among those who visit or live on Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket Island, all exclusive vacation destinations in Massachusetts. Nearly a dozen lawsuits have been filed against the plan.
Salazar said Tuesday the government has taken “extraordinary steps” to evaluate the wind farm's potential impact on the region's environmental and cultural resources.
U.S. Approves First Offshore Wind Farm
Article from VOA
Should there be a wind energy project in the Chesapeake Bay?
2011-03-11
Atlantic Sturgeon - Along the Atlantic coast from Canada to Florida a prehistoric creature still exists.
Atlantic sturgeon - giants of the East Coast
Bay Naturalist / By Kathy Reshetiloff - Bay Journal
Along the Atlantic coast, from Canada to Florida, a prehistoric creature still exists. The Atlantic sturgeon (Acipenser oxirinchus) is a primitive fish that has been around since dinosaurs roamed the Earth, approximately 150 million years ago.
A sturgeon may live up to 60 years, weigh up to 800 pounds and reach lengths of up to 15 feet. Other identifying characteristics are a soft, toothless mouth located on the underside of a long, hard snout, and four sensory barbels projecting from the mouth. The head is covered with bony plates. Five rows of bony shields, or scutes, cover the body. The dorsal and anal fins are located far back on the body and the upper lobe of the tail is much longer than the lower.
During the late 1800s and early 1900s, Atlantic sturgeon was an important commercial fishery in the Chesapeake Bay, as well as other bays and rivers along the Atlantic Coast. Today's population has declined by more than 90 percent. Major causes of the decline include overfishing, the damming of rivers, and degradation or loss of habitat.
An anadromous fish, the Atlantic sturgeon spends most of its life in brackish or salt water, but migrates into coastal rivers to spawn. Atlantic sturgeon mature very slowly. Sexually mature males are at least 11 to 12 years old and weigh up to 100 pounds while females are 18 to 20 years old and weigh more than 100 pounds. Males migrate into fresh water during March and April, one month ahead of females. They do not school together but meander alone. Females lay 1 million to 2.5 million eggs in flowing water up to 60 feet deep. Both males and females may remain in the river until late fall before migrating back to the Atlantic. After hatching, the young may remain in their natal areas up to 5 years before beginning their journey to the ocean.
Sturgeon use their snouts and barbels to root around in bottom sediments, vacuuming up organisms with their soft mouths. Their diet consists of mollusks, worms, gastropods, isopods, shrimp and small fish, as well as large amounts of mud and debris.
Other than sharks and humans, sturgeon have few predators. Today, the majority of sturgeon are taken as incidental catch in other fisheries before they reach maturity. Biological characteristics of the Atlantic sturgeon, such as slow growth, advanced age at maturity, and long periods between spawning, make the fish particularly vulnerable to human-induced impacts and changes to its habitat.
Harvesting Atlantic sturgeon was an important industry from colonial times to the turn of the century. During the 1700s, sturgeon meat, eggs and oil were exported to Europe. The most valuable part of the fish was its eggs, or roe. Prepared as caviar, this delicacy was in high demand in Europe. The delicate meat, comparable to pork or swordfish, was smoked and eaten. Even sturgeon air bladders were valuable. They were used to make isinglass (a clear gelatin), jellies, clarifying agents for beverages, plasters, waterproofing agents, adhesives and lubricants. By 1850, sturgeon meat and roe became popular in this country as well. By the late 1800s, annual landings as high as 7 million pounds were reported.
Traditionally, Atlantic sturgeon fishermen worked the Hudson, Susquehanna, Delaware, Potomac, York, James, St. Mary's and St. John's rivers with large drifting gill nets, some 1,500 feet long and 21 feet deep with a mesh of 13 inches. By the 1920s, the annual harvests fell to as little as 22,000 pounds.
Today, sturgeon are still caught with gill nets, haul seines, pound nets, fish slides, and weirs. Fishing seasons generally occur during spring spawning migrations and some fall migrations. Fishing occurs in the Hudson River and along the Atlantic Coast with size limits and/or pound quotas. Harvests are only a fraction - less than 10 percent - of their peak a century ago.
The restoration and management of Atlantic sturgeon is under way. Because so little is understood about the migration patterns of Atlantic sturgeon, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, in partnerships with several states, has initiated a program to tag wild sturgeon along the Atlantic Coast and the Gulf of Mexico. Serial numbers printed on the tags can be reported to the service when a tagged fish is caught. Participants then receive a reward. In this way, citizens help to provide data on distribution, mortality, age, growth and coastal migration patterns of the fish.
Other efforts include producing hatchery-reared fish for further study and for possible release into the wild, and raising the minimum size limit on the Atlantic sturgeon fishery. Virginia has closed its Atlantic sturgeon fishery entirely. In the Chesapeake Bay, no Atlantic sturgeon greater than 7 feet has been caught since 1970.
It will take more than the reduction of fishing pressure and the stocking of fish to bring the Atlantic sturgeon back. With increased development and deforestation, the input of forest litter (decaying organic matter found on the forest floor) into streams and rivers has been reduced. Eggs need to attach to forest litter to keep from being swept downstream.
Water quality is critical to the survival of adults and juveniles. Excessive amounts of nutrients in waterways can create sudden blooms of phytoplankton. After the phytoplankton die, decomposition uses up large amounts of oxygen. This can lead to dangerously low dissolved oxygen levels along the bottom where sturgeon feed.
Like all anadromous fish, Atlantic sturgeon must have access to their spawning grounds. By removing blockages or altering the design of dams to accommodate fish passage, sturgeon can reach the upstream areas so critical to their reproduction.
With citizens working in cooperation with local and federal agencies to lower fishing mortality, reduce pollution, provide fish passage and possibly enhance stocks through hatchery production, the Atlantic sturgeon may once again become a vital and familiar part of the Chesapeake Bay heritage.
For more information about Atlantic sturgeon and restoration activities, contact:
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Maryland Fisheries Resource Office
177 Admiral Cochrane Drive
Annapolis, MD 21401
Phone:(410) 263-2604
Kathryn Reshetiloff is with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Chesapeake Bay Field Office in Annapolis.
Atlantic sturgeon - giants of the East Coast
Article from Bay Journal - March 1995
2010-12-27
Blizzard - US Northeast
Blizzard Slams US Northeast; Travel in Disarray
VOA News 27 December 2010
Travelers affected by an early winter blizzard are camped out at airports in the northeast United States, waiting to get home after thousands of flights were canceled Sunday and Monday by the snow.
The storm disrupted air, rail and road traffic as it brought up to 50 centimeters of snow and gale-force winds on New York City and Boston, thwarting the plans of travelers attempting to return home after the Christmas holiday.
Passenger rail service, normally an alternative when bad weather grounds flights, was suspended between New York and Boston. Many inter-city bus carriers shut down routes between Boston and the nation's capital.
The storm knocked out the power supply to tens of thousands of homes in the northeast.
Governors of several eastern states, including Massachusetts, Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina, declared states of emergency to mobilize extra resources in response to the storm.
National Football League officials made the rare move of postponing until Tuesday an outdoor game scheduled for Sunday in Philadelphia.
The weather deterred some Americans from returning to shopping malls to take advantage of post-holiday sales or to return unwanted Christmas gifts.
Travel difficulties began on Saturday in parts of the southeastern U.S. It was the first "white Christmas" for the southern cities of Atlanta, Georgia and Columbia, South Carolina since the late 1800s.
The National Weather Service says the storm was a result of a large low-pressure system off the North Carolina coast that strengthened as it moved northeast.
Blizzard Slams US Northeast; Travel in Disarray news article and video came from voanews.com
2010-12-26
Snow Storm for the Eastern Shore - US East Coast
The Eastern Shore of Maryland and parts of the United States had a white Christmas in 2010.
It was the first “white Christmas” for the southern city of Atlanta since the 1800s. This new storm will be a double blow for some areas.
It was the first “white Christmas” for the southern city of Atlanta since the 1800s. This new storm will be a double blow for some areas.
U.S. Storm to Impair Holiday Travel
Sunday, December 26th, 2010
2010-02-10
Blizzard Conditions Hit The East Coast
Blizzard conditions have once again come to the East Coast. The Maryland area has been blanketed with snow this February. Oxford, St. Michaels, Easton, and Cambridge have not escaped winter's wrath. On Saturday February 5, 2010 twenty-two inches of snow was reported at Sandaway Waterfront Lodging in Oxford, Maryland. Several inches have already fallen again before noon on February 10, 2010.
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