2529910 Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material https://globalnews.ca/news/7305409/hurricane-laura-experts/National Hurricane Center storm surge specialist Jamie Rhome referred to the storm’s last-minute course change as the “little wobble that saved” Lake Charles. In the end, the city got maybe half the storm surge it could have received, he said. The worst storm surge is to the east of a hurricane’s....Sat, 29 Aug 2020 08:51:00 +0200globalnews-92ad49da0c976de267f6e428a844eb7e20200829085100https://www.hammondstar.com/opinion/remembering-katrina/article_7815d716-b188-5f5c-9f90-ef522773c28b.htmlMy family was lucky enough to have evacuated; however, not lucky enough to avoid Katrina’s wrath entirely. An evacuation to my grandmother’s house on the Mississippi Gulf Coast proved foolish, despite my parents’ best intentions of helping our ailing grandfather with Alzheimer’s. We traded being stuck in 11 feet of water at our house in St.Sat, 29 Aug 2020 07:45:00 +0200hammondstar-9bfebb14adcb2c8eeaa39bae8e776b5b20200829074500https://gazette.com/ap/national/a-wobble-luck-and-preparations-lessened-lauras-devastation/article_ba3fc3b8-b3fe-5d2e-a4a3-dbbe4ed56657.htmlLAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) — Hurricane Laura was a monster storm that could have, even should have, wreaked much more destruction than it did, except for a few lucky breaks and some smart thinking by Gulf Coast residents, experts say. Just before striking Louisiana, Laura wobbled.Sat, 29 Aug 2020 07:12:00 +0200gazette-a4d021aba619177f4f1fa0b6c8ef812320200829071200https://apnews.com/49bd906b122b3df9f7ff8379a55e92fcLAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) — Hurricane Laura was a monster storm that could have, even should have, wreaked much more destruction than it did, except for a few lucky breaks and some smart thinking by Gulf Coast residents, experts say. Just before striking Louisiana, Laura wobbled.Sat, 29 Aug 2020 07:11:00 +0200apnews-5fb4fc8fe72f5baae51155f0f30fb44820200829071100