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Lightning strikes the Willis Tower (formerly Sears Tower) in downtown on June 12, 2013 in Chicago, Illinois. A massive storm system with heavy rain, high winds, hail and possible tornadoes is expected to move into Illinois and much of the central part of the Midwest today. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
Hurricane Sandy: Millions in U.S. prepare for ‘worst case scenario’
Hurricane Sandy, the monster storm bearing down on the U.S. East Coast, strengthened on Monday after hundreds of thousands moved to higher ground, public transport shut down and the U.S. stock market suffered its first weather-related closure in 27 years.
About 50 million people from the Mid-Atlantic to Canada were in the path of the nearly 1,000-mile-wide (1,600-km-wide) storm, which forecasters said could be the largest to hit the mainland in U.S. history. It was expected to topple trees, damage buildings, cause power outages and trigger heavy flooding.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said on Monday the Category 1 storm had strengthened as it turned toward the coast and was moving at 20 miles per hour (32 km per hour). It was expected to bring a “life-threatening storm surge,” coastal hurricane winds and heavy snow in the Appalachian Mountains, the NHC said. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters)
Sarah Boesveld asked Evangelos Tziallas, a University of Concordia doctoral candidate who presented at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ont., to share his thoughts on the world’s most famous superheroes and what they mean in a post-9/11 society. Steve Murray illustrates.
25 best nature photos of 2011
Volcanic lightning is seen above Shinmoedake peak, Japan, as it erupts, January 28, 2011. (Photo: Minami-Nippon Shimbun/Reuters)
Photos: Typhoon Roke hits Japan, threatens damaged nuclear plant
A powerful typhoon struck Japan on Wednesday, pummeling the Tokyo area with heavy rain, disrupting public transportation and leaving four people dead, and it was headed towards the tsunami-crippled Fukushima nuclear plant. Typhoon Roke, the second big storm to hit Japan this month, was packing winds of up to 220 km per hour and dumped more than 40 cm of rain in parts of eastern and western Japan over the past 24 hours, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. (Photo: JIJI PRESS/AFP/Getty Images)
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Heavy rain falls over Bangkok at sunset during the monsoon season, Sept. 18, 2011. (Nicolas Asfouri/AFP/Getty Images)
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Canadian National Exhibition (CNE) goers run to take cover from the rain as a massive storm hits Toronto, Wednesday evening, August 24, 2011. (Aaron Lynett/National Post)
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Lightning strikes behind a house in the northern German city of Gesecke, Aug. 23, 2011. (Thomas Rensinghoff/AFP/Getty Images)
Photos: Tornadoes devastate southern United States
Dozens of tornadoes ripped through six states destroying homes and businesses and killing at least 220 people in the deadliest weather disaster in four decades. (Photo: Marvin Gentry/Reuters)
