meteorología
Houston (AFP) - Josh Vance stands in the airconditioned entrance of Sunnyside Community Center in Houston, Texas, one of the designated "cooling centers" open to the public after Hurricane Beryl knocked out power during a potent heat wave. "Dealing with the heat at home, it's terrible. Honestly, we're suffering," he said. Vance is among one million customers still without electricity, four days after the storm blew through the city. Though the state's prominent oil and gas industry weathered the storm, Beryl still flooded neighborhoods and roads, uprooted trees and damaged power poles and tran...
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By Moisés ÁVILA Houston (États-Unis) (AFP) - "La chaleur aspire la vie de nos âmes et de nos corps": sans électricité depuis le passage de la tempête tropicale Béryl au Texas, Josh Vance, comme des centaines de milliers d'autres habitants, ne peut même plus faire fonctionner un ventilateur. Les températures ressenties approchant les 40°C, il a trouvé refuge dans un centre communautaire climatisé mis à disposition, comme de nombreux établissements publics, des habitants de Houston, principale ville du sud des Etats-Unis. Après avoir traversé les Caraïbes en tant qu'ouragan, Béryl a touché lundi...
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Oroville (États-Unis) (AFP) - Un incendie violent fait rage mercredi dans le nord de la Californie, poussant des milliers d'habitants à évacuer cette zone de l'Ouest américain frappé par une vague de chaleur exceptionnellement "dangereuse", selon les météorologues. Sur place, les pompiers se battent pour protéger les maisons entourées d'arbres embrasés, tandis qu'hélicoptères et avions bombardiers d'eau s'attaquent aux flammes. Plus loin, des décombres calcinés de bâtiments fument encore. Déjà plus de 1.400 hectares de prairies et de forêt ont été consumés depuis mardi près d'Oroville, où les ...
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Oroville (United States) (AFP) - Thousands of people have been ordered to evacuate as a wildfire rages out of control in northern California, with a swathe of the United States in the grip of a "record-breaking and dangerous" heatwave that was complicating firefighting efforts. More than 3,500 acres (1,400 hectares) of grass and woodland have been consumed since Tuesday when a blaze erupted just outside Oroville. The town, near the state capital of Sacramento, is just 23 miles (38 kilometers) from Paradise, a community that was razed in 2018 by the deadliest fire in California history, which c...
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Oroville (États-Unis) (AFP) - Un incendie d'ampleur fait rage mercredi dans le nord de la Californie, poussant des milliers d'habitants à évacuer la zone alors qu'une vague de chaleur "exceptionnellement dangereuse" frappe la région. Déjà plus de 1.400 hectares de prairies et de forêt ont été consumés depuis mardi près d'Oroville, où les autorités ont demandé à quelque 13.000 personnes de quitter les lieux. Ce brasier frappe à quelques dizaines de kilomètres seulement de Paradise, localité touchée en 2018 par l'incendie le plus mortel de l'histoire de cet Etat américain avec 85 morts. Les quel...
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Oroville (United States) (AFP) - Thousands of people have been ordered to evacuate as a wildfire rages out of control in northern California, with the region gripped by an "exceptionally dangerous" heatwave that is making conditions worse. More than 3,000 acres (1,200 hectares) of grass and woodland have been consumed since Tuesday when a blaze started just outside Oroville, with authorities telling 13,000 people to leave the area. The town, near the state capital of Sacramento, is just 23 miles (38 kilometers) from Paradise, a community that was razed in 2018 by the deadliest fire in state hi...
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Santiago du Chili (AFP) - Les fortes pluies et vents qui frappent jeudi une grande partie du Chili ont fait un mort et plus de 4.000 sinistrés, ont annoncé les autorités, qui ont déclaré l'état de "catastrophe" dans cinq régions du pays. La tempête a fait un mort à Linares, ville du sud du pays, et affecté 4.304 personnes, selon un bilan du Service national de prévention et de réponse aux catastrophes (Senapred). La victime est décédée à la suite de "la chute d'un poteau d'éclairage public", a-t-il précisé. "Ces pluies vont continuer à tomber très fort", a prévenu le président chilien Gabriel ...
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Houston (AFP) - A US power company admitted Thursday that its equipment may have sparked the largest wildfire in Texas' history. Xcel -- the parent of Southwest Public Service Company, which provides electricity to part of the state -- said it was working with officials investigating the cause of the blaze that charred more than a million acres (over 400,000 hectares). "Based on currently available information, Xcel Energy acknowledges that its facilities appear to have been involved in an ignition of the Smokehouse Creek fire," the company said. Hundreds of homes are thought to have been dest...
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Acapulco (Mexico) (AFP) - Acapulco was struggling Saturday to recover from the extraordinarily powerful Hurricane Otis, which claimed 39 lives and provoked widespread power, water and telephone outages. The picturesque Mexican tourist haunt, which once lured Hollywood stars like Elizabeth Taylor and Elvis Presley, had never experienced a Category 5 hurricane like Otis, which roared ashore Wednesday and made local landmarks built over decades look like they had been bombed. A lack of phone signal has left survivors desperate to communicate with loved ones. Some 200,000 homes were damaged, with...
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Steinhatchee (United States) (AFP) - John Paul Nohelj has lived in Steinhatchee for two decades. For him, the northwest Florida town set among marshes and forests is paradise on Earth, and he won't leave -- despite being in the crosshairs of a churning hurricane. Little does he care about the evacuation order issued by authorities for his county and several others along Florida's Gulf coast, where Hurricane Idalia is forecast to roar ashore early Wednesday. Sitting on the porch of his creaky wooden home, Nohelj appears unfazed by what could be a looming disaster. "I've lived on the coast of Fl...
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