Category - Travel Alerts

System 99L could become Tropical Depression 8 and even Tropical Storm Hermine.   A budding tropical disturbance has the potential to strengthen significantly and reach Florida and the Bahamas with strong winds, coastal flooding and torrential rainfall during Sunday and Monday. Only one of two active Atlantic tropical systems poses a significant threat to land […]

Myanmar hit by 6.8 magnitude earthquake A powerful 6.8-magnitude earthquake rattled central Myanmar on Wednesday afternoon, more than a day after another tremor struck the Southeast Asian nation, the U.S. Geological Survey said.   The quake hit around 4:34 p.m. local time (6:04 a.m. ET) about 15 miles west of Chauk, near the ancient capital […]

Powerful Earthquakes in Italy Kill Dozens and Shatter Towns   AMATRICE, Italy — Strong earthquakes struck a mountainous stretch of central Italy early Wednesday, killing at least 38 people, trapping scores under debris and setting off tremors that awakened residents in Rome, nearly 100 miles to the southwest.   The first, a 6.2-magnitude earthquake, struck […]

Workers on Southern trains are to stage a 48-hour strike on 7 and 8 September in the continuing dispute over the role of guards, the RMT union has announced. The union is fighting plans by Southern owner Govia Thameslink (GTR) to turn conductors into “on-board supervisors”, with drivers taking over responsibility for opening and closing […]

156 properties under evacuation order as West Kelowna fire grows Bear Creek Provincial Park also evacuated, and 14 properties are on evacuation alert   High winds and dry conditions caused the rapid growth of a 10-hectare fire near Bear Creek Provincial campground in West Kelowna, B.C., forcing 156 properties to be put under an evacuation […]

One killed, planes grounded as 3 severe storms roar across Japa (CNN)Typhoon Mindulle is roaring over Tokyo after making landfall earlier on Monday, just one of three storms which have lashed Japan over the past two days, killing one person.   A 42-year-old man was found dead on the side of a flooded road early […]