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Luis Zambrano, Fort Myers News-Press Mon, January 17, 2022, 10:24 AM·2 min read A day after two EF-2 tornadoes touched down in Southwest Florida and numerous tornado warnings were issued in the region, here is what you need to know regarding recovery and clean-up efforts, power, people who have been displaced and moved into temporary shelters. This is a developing story. Please check back with news-press.com and naplesnews.com for updates throughout the day. Power outages in Lee and Collier LCEC is reporting today eight customers without power. FPL is reporting 362 in Lee County, 31 in Collier County and 65...

Four states on the East Coast have declared a state of emergency ahead of a large snowstorm expected to hit Southern and Eastern states Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend. Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia all declared a state of emergency on Friday in advance of the storm.

As we told you earlier, there’s an ongoing humanitarian crisis on I-95 in northern Virginia where thousands of motorists were stranded overnight in the aftermath of Monday’s snowstorm and frigid temperatures. SNIP

A severe winter storm could dump up to 18 inches of snow across the eastern US Monday as some half a million homes are already without power in the southeast — but New York will largely be spared, forecasters said Monday. The heaviest snowfall — likely between 6 and 10 inches — is expected in parts of northern Virginia and Maryland, as well as in Delaware and southern New Jersey, AccuWeather meteorologist Nicole LoBiondo told The Post.

TEXARKANA, Texas -- Last day of 2021 and Texas is raining fish -- literally. Texas has seen record breaking heat and a record freeze in 2021. So instead of raining cats and dogs, one part of the state may have rained...fish? TEXAS NEWS Last day of 2021 and Texas is raining fish-- literally Friday, December 31, 2021 6:22PM EMBED <>MORE VIDEOS ABC7 presents "Eyewitness to 2021," a look back at a year that started with terror and saw the rise of COVID-19 variants amid the race to vaccinate. TEXARKANA, Texas -- Last day of 2021 and Texas is raining fish...

Hundreds of homes burned and tens of thousands of people were evacuated after a rare wind-driven wildfire tore through suburban neighborhoods in Colorado on Thursday, authorities said. Gov. Jared Polis declared a state of emergency in the area, calling the blaze — which ballooned to 1,600 acres in a few hours amid 100-mph winds — “absolutely devastating.” After toppled power lines started the grass fire around 11 a.m. south of Boulder, the flames quickly spread through the towns of Louisville and Superior, Boulder County Sheriff Joe Pelle said during a news conference. “This was consuming football field lengths of land...

A seven year-old girl left badly injured because of a tornado that killed her nine year-old sibling couldn't contain her excitement after receiving boxes of Christmas gifts from Donald and Melania Trump. An enthusiastic Avalinn Rackley, 7, reacted to the news when filmed by her grandmother, Pam Moore, weeks after her older sister and best friend Annistyn was killed by a tornado that also destroyed the family home in Caruthersville, Missouri on December 10. 'These boxes came in the mail, and they are from...President Trump! Both of these boxes. Can you believe it?' Moore says as Avalinn grins with expectation....

People think that the Fed controls inflation, and they think that because they were taught to think that while getting expensive educations at institutions of higher learning. And besides, everyone says so, and so it must be true. But what if I could model the movements of inflation rates using no financial or economic data at all as inputs? What would that do to your own personal confidence about the premise of the Fed controlling inflation? This is the quandary I am going to confront you with in this week’s chart, and it is understandably going to make you feel...

Cars still being inspected, number could rise Supposedly, those remade orders will be prioritized when production lines reopen this week. The scrappage number could increase. There were Corvettes parked outside the facility for shipping that are still being checked for damage. A skeleton crew of 90 skilled workers from UAW Local 2164 has stayed on the job since the weather disturbance, out of 1,200 total line workers. GM quickly moved people and resources from facilities as far away as Detroit to help rebuild, so GM's intention to begin the process of making Bowling Green fully operational on Monday, December 20...

Update: The highway was reopened at 8:20 a.m. A rockslide has closed a section of Highway 1 along the Big Sur coast. Caltrans said the rockslide is near the Anderson Canyon Bridge, which is between Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park and the Esalen Institute. Crews are on scene, the agency said. Caltrans does not have an estimate for when Highway 1 will reopen. This rockslide comes after Caltrans reopened the Highway on Wednesday between Deetjen's Big Sur Inn and Ragged Point. The highway was closed Dec. 12 in support of a Monterey County evacuation warning.

Join together with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession, and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. ~ 1 Timothy 2:1-2 Religion Forum Threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.

...A blinding dust storm moving at hurricane force winds of 90mph has blanketed half of Kansas and knocked out power to nearly 120,000 residents Wednesday night. Footage of the powerful storm posted to social media show the winds whipping red dust at such high speeds that nearly nothing in front of the camera could be seen, as drivers were forced to pull over... ...The Kansas Department of Transportation reports that highways throughout the state are closed, and staff had to be evacuated from the air traffic control center of the Kansas City International Airport.... ...The National Weather Service in Wichita...

“I’m going to be asking my team to set up sites for booster shots and a whole range of things,” the president said.

Meteorologists are monitoring as a system with the potential for damaging winds and severe thunderstorms is moving into the region Wednesday. The National Weather Service (NWS) has issued multiple advisories for the region, adding Wednesday's forecast hasn't been seen before in mid-December and is unprecedented. A Tornado Watch was issued for part of the KSTP viewing area shortly before 1:30 p.m. Wednesday. Storms and high winds are expected to move in around 5 p.m. Tornado Watch now through 8 PM across southern/south-central MN & Iowa. A few tornadoes are still possible across SE MN and the metro as well as...

Speaking in Wilmington, Delaware on Saturday, resident Joe Biden blamed the recent deadly tornado outbreak in Kentucky on “climate change.” Biden stated, “The fact is we all know everything is more intense when the climate is warming and obviously it has some impact here.” Biden’s statement is laughably inept and easily disproved. All one has to do is look past the opinions, pronouncements, and hand waving and concentrate on what science and data actually say about the issues. First, the top five deadliest tornadoes in America all occurred between 1840 and 1936. The Great Natchez Tornado on May 7, 1840,...

The Left’s credo: Never, ever, ever let a good crisis go to waste.FEMA chief says powerful storms ‘new normal’ in era of climate change.As usual of course the existing facts don’t support her stupid claim.Mind you, the US didn’t even have a nationwide Doppler Radar system during the 1954-74 tornado cycle. It wasn’t installed until the mid-90s and has been significantly updated ever since so we are now reporting previously undetectable tornadic events. So who knows how many tornadoes there actually were between 1954-74. It wouldn’t have been less but it could have been more – much more, maybe double...

As states across the Midwest and South pick up the pieces after a spate of tornadoes believed to have killed dozens of people, the top US emergency management official warned Sunday that such cataclysms will be the “new normal.” “The effects we are seeing of climate change are the crisis of our generation,” FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell told CNN’s “State of the Union.” Criswell added that while it was “not unusual” for tornadoes to strike in December, “at this magnitude, I don’t think we have ever seen one this late in the year.” “Even the severity and the amount of...

(Reuters) -Multiple people were trapped after a roof partially collapsed at an Amazon.com Inc facility near St. Louis on Friday night, after tornadoes and strong storms blew through the area, media reported. The warehouse in Edwardsville in southern Illinois was damaged after a severe weather event occurred around 8:33 p.m. (0233 GMT on Saturday), the authorities said, adding that local police and fire departments have a search and rescue operations in place...

Join together with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession, and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. ~ 1 Timothy 2:1-2 Religion Forum Threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.

A significant severe weather outbreak, including the potential for nighttime tornadoes, is expected Friday night from parts of the lower and mid-Mississippi Valley into the Tennessee and lower Ohio valleys. A potent upper-level disturbance punching out of the Rockies and into the Plains on Friday will enter the Mississippi Valley by Friday night. This will cause a surface low-pressure system to intensify as it tracks into the Great Lakes region overnight, pushing a strong cold front across the central U.S. from the Ohio Valley to East Texas. Warm, humid air from the Gulf of Mexico will surge northward out ahead...