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Austin, Texas, Fog Leads to 20-Vehicle Pileup, Dozens Injured
Firefighters work the scene of a 20-vehicle pileup near Austin, Texas. (Austin Fire Department) At a Glance Fifty-six people were treated following the crash.Nine of the injured were taken to area hospitals. Heavy fog in the Austin, Texas, area early Tuesday led to a 20-vehicle pileup that injured at least 56 people. Authorities say were taken to area hospitals for treatment, the Austin-Travis County Emergency Management Service reported. The wreck occurred just after midnight New Year's Eve on state Highway...
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Boaters Kill Record Number of Manatees in Florida in 2018
At a Glance Watercraft are blamed for killing 121 manatees in Florida waters last year. The state counted 823 total manatee deaths, 285 more than in 2017.Red tide killed or is suspected of killing 211 manatees. A record 121 manatees were killed in Florida waters by boaters last year, and the overall number of manatee deaths came close to the record, according to state figures. About 15 percent of manatee deaths in 2018 were caused by watercraft, from the Florida...
2018 Was Wettest Year on Record in Over Two Dozen Cities in the East, Midwest, Including Washington D.C. and Pittsburgh
At a Glance Cities from North Carolina to the nation's Corn Belt had a record-wet year in 2018.This included Washington D.C., Baltimore and Pittsburgh.One location picked up over 100 inches of precipitation, with a boost from Florence. Over two dozen cities in the East and Midwest had their wettest year on record in 2018, stretching from North Carolina to South Dakota. (CATEGORY 6 BLOG: Wettest-Year Records for 2018) These cities set their new record-wet year in 2018. Locations with at...
California's First Snowpack Survey Shows Water Content Is Below Average
John King, a water resource engineer with the California Department of Water Resources, Snow Survey Section, inserts a long aluminum snow depth survey pole into the snow for the first DWR snow survey of the 2019 season at Phillips Station in the Sierra Nevada Mountains on Thursday, Jan. 3, 2019. (Ken James / California Department of Water Resources) At a Glance The snowpack supplies about 30 percent of California's annual water needs.Water content in the Sierra snowpack is at 67...
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