Posted on Monday, March 1st, 2021 by Hoai-Tran Bui
A different kind of plague has emerged with renewed force in the last year alongside COVID-19: the rise of hate crimes against Asians and Asian-Americans in the U.S. The spike in anti-Asian violence began around a year ago when the coronavirus pandemic first reached American shores, and was exacerbated by former President Donald Trump and other federal officials repeatedly calling COVID-19 the “China virus” or the “Kung flu.” But recent months have begun to rack up a body count notably, an elderly Thai man who was killed in San Francisco in January and the growing public advocacy of Asian-American celebrities, who have called for change.
Wind, hail can cause major damage during storms
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CHICAGO (WLS) When we think of severe weather many of us immediately think tornadoes, but wind and hail storms can also cause serious damage. The Midwest Derecho of 2020 stretched from Nebraska all the way through Illinois and Indiana, and left widespread damage in its wake. The primary driver of all the destruction? Not tornadoes, but straight-line winds. If you have a storm in motion and it s able to channel atmospheric winds from mid-levels, some really strong winds, said Eric Lenning from the National Weather Service. It can channel those winds and force them down to the surface along with the motion of the storm. So, we call that straight-line winds because they generally come in and spread out in a straight line.
Scaffolding collapses at 7-story building during high winds in Boston Share Updated: 12:14 PM EST Mar 2, 2021 Share Updated: 12:14 PM EST Mar 2, 2021
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Show Transcript A BIG MESS. IT IS LEANING UP AGAINST A TREE WHICH IS HOLDING WHATEVER IS LEFT UP. SARA: THAT JENNIFER: THAT TREE IS PROPPING UP SEVERAL STORIES OF SCAFFOLDING. PEOPLE WHO LIVE AND WORK IN THE AREA SAW THE HEAP OF WOOD AND METAL THIS MORNING. IT HAPPENED OVERNIGHT. JENNIFER: LAST NIGHT, PEOPLE INSIDE THE APARTMENT BUILDING PEERED OUTSIDE AT THE SCENE BELOW. NO ONE WAS HURT. THE BUILDING IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION. NO WORKERS WERE ON SITE WHEN WINDS STRIPPED DOWN TO SCAFFOLDING. BECAUSE IT WAS NIGHT AND IT WAS COLD, PEOPLE WERE NOT ANYWHERE NEAR IT. WHEN IT FELL, THERE WAS NOBODY INVOLVED IN IT. IT IS FORTUNATE NOBODY WAS HURT. JENNIFER: POLICE TAPED OFF THE SCENE. WE ARE MAKING SURE PEOPLE ARE SAFE AND THE BUILDING IS SAFE AND THERE IS NOT FURTHER DISLODGE OF THE SC
to get alerts for local breaking news and weather. Heavy winds toppled a tree into a home, knocked the side off a Boston building and made fires hard to fight in Massachusetts Tuesday.
In Massachusetts, there were more than 45,000 customers without power as of 4 a.m., 30,000 in New Hampshire, 21,000 in Maine and 18,000 in Connecticut. Massachusetts outages were down to just over 4,077 by 7:30 p.m.
A large tree snapped and crashed into a house and garage in Westboro, causing extensive damage. There were various branches down throughout the area and trash cans rolling around the streets as the howling wind continued.