WASHINGTON– Well before dawn in Texas, a shallow point of the Guadalupe River rose above the height of a two-story house Thursday in just five hours, sending a rush of water across a region still affected by last summer’s fatal flash floods. Dangerous flooding for the second year in a row prompted dozens of high-water
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According to the United States National Weather Service, more than 165 million people were suffering from record temperatures on the East Coast and Midwest of the United States on Friday. The weather service issued warnings that parts of the Midwest and Eastern United States face “significant” or “extreme” heat-related health risks. The heat wave is
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Hundreds of thousands of people were left without power Saturday after high winds raked eastward from the Great Lakes region, leaving trees down and substantial property damage in their wake. Nearly 600,000 customers were still affected at midday in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Michigan, according to PowerOutage.us, which tracks outages nationwide. A 66