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After Dorian, the North Carolinians who made lives and businesses in the Bahamas are only beginning to pick up the pieces Hurricane

After Dorian, the North Carolinians who made lives and businesses in the Bahamas are only beginning to pick up the pieces

By Payton Tysinger, UNC-CHTHE ABACOS, BAHAMAS — Paul Pinder steps over the piles of sea grass and shattered pictures – what used to be the upscale Abaco Lodge – laughing as he tells of the amazing memories he made at the lodge where he worked as a fishing guide. It…
bubmag
February 9, 2020
Lessons from hurricanes past Hurricane

Lessons from hurricanes past

In Fernandina Beach, Florida, an example of the widespread destruction caused by the hurricane of 1896 that devastated Atsena Otie Key. Credit: Florida Memory On September 29, 1896, the island of Atsena Otie Key was struck by a powerful hurricane. Located just off the coast of Cedar Key in the…
bubmag
February 6, 2020
New FOIA’d emails reveal the chaos behind the scenes of the National Weather Service’s #SharpieGate Hurricane

New FOIA’d emails reveal the chaos behind the scenes of the National Weather Service’s #SharpieGate

In early September 2019, President Donald J. Trump tweeted something dumb. Specifically, this time it was about the encroaching Hurricane Dorian, and the places that it would or would not hit. In addition to Florida - South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia,…
bubmag
February 5, 2020
Study provides insight on how to minimize the impacts of severe weather on wildlife Hurricane

Study provides insight on how to minimize the impacts of severe weather on wildlife

These two white-tailed deer, a fawn on the left and a female wearing a GPS collar on the right, were observed during an aerial survey in Florida's Big Cypress National Preserve. Photo by Elina Garrison, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. Credit: Elina Garrison, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.…
bubmag
January 23, 2020