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<div><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=0Im5CN_0uofUQlG00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=0Im5CN_0uofUQlG00" width="1200" height="630" ><p>As oceans and the atmosphere warm, the risk of inland flooding from hurricanes and tropical storms grows. Mark Strassmann takes a look at a North Carolina community that's already learned that lesson twice.</p><nbtemplate data-id="AdPlaceholder" data-content="JTdCJTdE"></nbtemplate></div>

Columbus, OH

CBS News

Hurricanes are bringing more rainfall than ever before, mainly due to climate change. With oceans absorbing an estimated 91% of the excess heat caused by greenhouse gas emissions, waters are warming at unprecedented levels. Hotter oceans provide energy that enables hurricanes to rapidly intensify and drop extreme amounts of precipitation. Traditionally, hurricanes are examined by wind speed. The current hurricane warning system, known as the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale, is a 1 to 5 rating that is based upon the maximum sustained wind of a storm. The scale is best used to predict property damage related to wind, but the scale does...

Why future hurricanes could bring flooding to millions more Americans

South Carolina State

Florida State

UPDATE: Debby Becomes a Hurricane as it Approaches the Northeastern Gulf Coast. More at hurricanes.gov. Original story: All eyes are on the Southeast as Tropical Storm Debby, soon to be Hurricane Debby, arrives on the Florida panhandle coast. As heavy rainfall continues to batter the southeastern United States, significant flooding...

Historic Flooding and Life-Threatening Storm Surge Expected in Southeast U.S.

Savannah, GA

The Independent

 Tropical Storm Debby came ashore in Florida as a Category 1 hurricane Monday and quickly downgraded, but the storm still poses serious threats as it slogs on toward Georgia and South Carolina.Tropical storms can be deadlier than some of the strongest hurricanes. In Debby’s case, the storm was expected to slow to a crawl and dump up to 30 inches (76 centimetres) of rain over several days along coastal Georgia and South Carolina. Winds won’t be the biggest danger, making the storm's category far less important than the potential for catastrophic flooding.The Saffir-Simpson Scale measures only the strength of...

Tropical Storm Debby could prove just as dangerous as a major hurricane

UPI News

A rain-heavy Debby weakened to a tropical storm over northern Florida on Monday afternoon but still carried a high risk of flooding for the region as it headed toward southern Georgia and the Carolinas.

Weakened Tropical Storm Debby inundates southeast U.S. with heavy rain

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Meteorologist Joe Cioffi

Northern Florida, Southern Georgia, South Carolina into portions of Southeast North Carolina are about to see the heaviest rainfall in many years and quite possible historic rainfall amounts from Hurricane Debby. The hurricane strengthened overnight and is making landfall today along the coast of the Florida Big Bend area near Cedar Key. From here, Debby will be on a slow crawl northeastward and it may take all week for Debby to play out. This sets up for devastaing and potentially catastrophic rainfall in the areas noted above.

Hurricane Debby crosses Florida, Georgia, South Carolina & North Carolina, historic flooding likely

New York Post

After weeks of quiet, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) is watching a tropical disturbance in the Atlantic Ocean.

Located east of the Lesser Antilles, this disturbance is expected to interact with an approaching tropical wave during the next several days, according to the NHC.

There is a medium chance that the disturbance will develop, but the odds have been increasing over the weekend.

Calif. issues evacuation order as Park Fire now among largest in state history

“Environmental conditions are forecast to become conducive for some development in a day or two, and a tropical depression could form around midweek while the system is near...

Tropical disturbance over Atlantic worries hurricane experts

Georgia State

Debby wreaks havoc in Florida, heads to Georgia and the Carolinas; Inland communities increasingly susceptible to flooding from hurricanes.

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Hurricane Debby brought more than powerful winds and storm surge to Florida — packages of cocaine worth more than $1 million also made landfall, officials said, marking the latest in a string of recent discoveries of drugs along Florida shores.Debby, which slammed into the state as a Category 1 hurricane but has since been downgraded to a tropical storm, washed the drugs ashore in the Florida Keys, U.S. Border Patrol acting chief patrol Agent Samuel Briggs II wrote on social media."Hurricane Debby blew 25 packages of cocaine (70 lbs.) onto a beach in the Florida Keys," Briggs wrote, posting two...

Hurricane Debby blows cocaine worth $1 million onto Florida beach

The storm is now expected to bring heavy flooding to parts of Georgia and the Carolinas in the coming days.

Five dead as Tropical Storm Debby soaks south-eastern US

Two Austrian mountaineers have died while attempting to summit a 2,500-meter (8,200-foot) peak in Italy's Julian Alps, the mountain rescue service of the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region bordering Austria said Thursday.Missing since Wednesday, the two men were both Alpine rescuers from the southern Austrian city of Villach close to the Slovenian and Austrian borders, the rescue service said on Facebook. Family members awaiting their return tried to reach them by phone but their calls went unanswered.They were scaling the "Cima di Riofreddo," whose peak culminates at more than 2,500 meters, when they fell either because of a mistake or a possible...

Bodies of mountaineers found dangling from climbing ropes near peak

Authorities killed on Monday a large crocodile thought responsible for Australia's second fatal attack in a month.The latest victim was a 40-year-old man from New South Wales state who had been fishing on Saturday while on vacation with his wife and children, traveling through Queensland state with a trailer, according to police. Government conservation officer Daniel Guymer said the man fell into the Annan River south of Cooktown. His body has not been recovered.Cooktown resident Bart Harrison said the steep bank had collapsed underneath the victim's feet, sending him more than 20 feet into the river which is renowned as...

Crocodile believed responsible for killing man on vacation with family

Debby is expected to move slowly north, lingering over Georgia and the Carolinas while dumping heavy precipitation. CBS Miami chief meteorologist Ivan Cabrera has the forecast.

Where Debby is headed after making landfall

A federal judge ruled against tech giant Google in a major antitrust case on Monday. The ruling says the company acted illegally to maintain a monopoly of its search engine. CBS News legal contributor Jessica Levinson joins to unpack the decision.

Google maintained illegal search engine monopoly, judge rules

Kentucky State

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Northern Kentucky Tribune

Kentucky’s Community Actions Partnerships have announced the starts date for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) Summer Subsidy, aimed at helping Kentucky households offset summer cooling costs.

LIHEAP Summer Subsidy program to help with summer cooling costs to begin enrollment July 16

Colleton County, SC

Explore Beaufort SC

Some beachgoers were in for a surprise this week when a bizarre looking prehistoric fish washed ashore in Colleton County along Edisto Beach at Edisto Beach State Park. It turned out to be an atlantic sturgeon.

Rare Atlantic sturgeon washes ashore on South Carolina beach

Crisp County, GA

Daily Coffee Press

On Wednesday, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation announced the arrest of 24 individuals following Operation Shyne Down. The GBI and other agencies served a total of 120 warrants on the suspects involved in the investigation, which targeted the criminal street gang G-Shyne Bloods and their involvement in criminal activities in Crisp County, Georgia.

Operation Results in More than 20 Charged with Gang Offenses, RICO, and more

USA TODAY

Images from Florida showed crashing waves along Florida's beach, cars attempting to navigate flooded streets and damage from Debby.

Hurricane Debby: Photos show destruction, flooding in Florida caused by Category 1 storm

New York City, NY

The decade-old question about how a dead six-month-old female black bear cub ended up in New York City's iconic Central Park beneath an old bicycle has been answered. Independent presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr. on Sunday confessed that he was behind the incident after a fact-checker from The New Yorker called him to verify the story.In a video he posted on X, Kennedy said he had come across the bear in the morning when he was going falconing; a woman in a van in front of him hit and killed the bear. "So, I pulled over and I picked up the...

RFK Jr. admits putting dead bear cub in Central Park 10 years ago

Virginia State

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Cheryl E Preston

Hope Logan Spencer (Anikka Noelle) was the voice of reason on The Bold and the Beautiful until recently. Liam Spencer (Scott Clifton) has said many times that Hoep is fair, and he admires her morals. The writers have recently shifted the character, and Virginia fans differ on how they feel about it.

The Bold and the Beautiful fans don't agree on the new version of Hope Logan Spencer

As oceans and the atmosphere warm, the risk of inland flooding from hurricanes and tropical storms grows. Mark Strassmann takes a look at a North Carolina community that's already learned that lesson twice.

Inland communities increasingly susceptible to flooding from hurricanes

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