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RAM Hurricane Engine Vs. Chrysler HEMI V8: What’s The Difference?
The Ram 1500 truck has featured a choice of several engines over its lifespan, but one of the most celebrated (and marketed) has been the powerful V8 HEMI. The HEMI engine went through three generations of design, with the most recent version of the Gen III — a 5.7-liter with variable cam timing (VCT) — unveiled
How Hurricane Ida turned a Louisiana nursing home into a living nightmare
Janice Verdin had no illusions about how bad a nursing home could get. Over her decade and a half as a nurse in south Louisiana, she’d worked in facilities infested with roaches and vermin, buildings where mold took over and staff worked under leaking ceilings. But she felt devoted to the residents, many of whom
Hurricane Lee becomes Cat. 5 hurricane
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Hurricane Hilary Could Create a New Lake in Desert
Forecasts for Hurricane Hilary predict that the storm will bring a deluge of rain to the desert, threatening to create a new lake in the hottest place on Earth.As a tropical storm, Hilary formed early on Wednesday and intensified into a hurricane by Thursday morning. It strengthened to a Category 4 early Friday morning with
How Hurricane Ian’s shifting forecast caught so many off guard
Hurricane Ian was a nightmare of a storm to forecast, and experts say the tools meteorologists used to assess and communicate its likely path were part of the problem.Why it matters: With the death toll mounting, meteorologists, emergency managers and others are asking how they could have done a better job making clear the storm
Hurricane Ian brings brings floods, rescues, street shark
Aerial photos from the Fort Myers area, a few miles (kilometres) west of where Ian struck land, showed homes ripped from their slabs and deposited among shredded wreckage. Businesses near the beach were completely razed, leaving twisted debris. Broken docks floated at odd angles beside damaged boats and fires smouldered on lots where houses once
NASA’s crawler transporter moves into position near pad 39B on Saturday to prepare for the rollback of the Artemis 1 moon rocket to the Vehicle Assembly Building. Credit: NASA/Joel KowskyFaced with threatening weather from Hurricane Ian, NASA managers decided Monday to haul the $4.1 billion Artemis 1 rocket off its launch pad and back to
Hurricane Aftermath Deadly for Dialysis Patients
Patients requiring dialysis were more likely to die in the month following a hurricane, likely because of storm-related disruptions to dialysis services, researchers said. In an analysis that combined storm-tracking data with information from the U.S. Renal Data System, all-cause mortality among dialysis patients in hurricane-affected areas was increased 13% in the 30 days following…
Hurricane Sam Is Latest Monster in Active Storm Season
Hurricane Sam is churning across the Atlantic Ocean as a Category 4 storm after it ballooned into a major maelstrom in a few short days. Still a tropical storm as of Thursday night, Sam intensified into a Category 3 hurricane by Saturday morning, then continued to strengthen. According to the National Hurricane Center, it’s expected…