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How to Help with North Texas Tornado Relief
The Volunteer Center of North Texas sent out a news release Tuesday night calling for North Texans who can volunteer to help those whose homes were destroyed or damaged in Tuesday afternoon’s tornadoes and storms.
They are assembling...
Tornado Relief Efforts Under Way
Several relief efforts are under way for the victims of the tornadoes that ripped across North Texas Tuesday afternoon.
The Red Cross of North Texas is collecting donations to pay for rent or hotel rooms, food, clothes and other items for families...
How You Can Help Texas Tornado Victims
There are several ways that you can help out people affected by yesterday’s tornados across North Texas.
The easiest, and most effective, is to give money to the Red Cross of North Texas. This money helps pay for rent or hotel rooms, new...
Schneider National Dealt ‘Financial Hit’ by Texas Tornado
About 100 pieces of truck equipment were damaged Tuesday after a tornado hit at a Schneider National Inc. facility in Dallas.
The company said Wednesday that recovery efforts started Tuesday night and are “proceeding quickly.” About...
Tornadoes Tear Through Dallas Area As Storms Rip Across Texas
DALLAS — Tornadoes raked the Dallas area Tuesday, crumbling a wing of a nursing home, peeling roofs from dozens of homes and spiraling big-rig trailers into the air like footballs. More than a dozen injuries were reported.
Overturned cars...
Powerful Tornadoes Strike Texas
More than a dozen injuries ranging from minor to severe have been reported after tornadoes and violent storms raked through the Dallas area.
Officer Paul Beck in the Dallas suburb of Lancaster says 10 people were injured when a reported tornado...
IADB Plans Natural Disaster Fund for Latin America
The Inter-American Development Bank has proposed allowing member countries to tap loans in case they need to respond to natural disasters, the multilateral lender’s president said on Saturday.
Luis Alberto Moreno said the disaster funding...
Despite Disasters, Leaders Say Cruise Industry Safe
Cruise industry leaders on Tuesday gathered for their inaugural convention since the Costa Concordia disaster, driving home their commitment to safety and expressing confidence that the resulting lull in business is only temporary.
The Concordia...
Towns Declared Natural Disasters
Following extensive rainfall which has plagued the north and north-west of New South Wales this year another two council areas have been declared natural disasters.
Minister for Police and Emergency Services Michael Gallacher has announced Brewarrina...
Australia Helps Fiji Prepare For Natural Disasters
Natural disasters take lives, shatter communities, inflict devastating economic losses and erode hard-won development gains. Over the past 50 years natural disasters have affected almost four million people in the Pacific, or half the current...
