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Nonprofits from WNC provide relief in Texas floods
WSOC 9 - North Carolina
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July 8, 2025
NORTH CAROLINA — As recovery continues in western North Carolina, a few area nonprofits are turning their attention to another community devastated by floods. BeLoved Asheville, an organization that has spent the past year helping its neighbors...
Intense Downpours are More Frequent, But Flooding Severity Remains Hard to Predict
Insurance Journal
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July 8, 2025
It’s not just Texas and North Carolina. Intense rain is falling more frequently in many areas of the U.S. — though where it occurs and whether it causes catastrophic flooding is largely a matter of chance, according to experts. More than 100...
4 deaths reported as Tropical Storm Chantal floods NC: See deadliest floods in NC, US history
BlueRidgeNow.com - North Carolina
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Heavy rainfall in Texas and North Carolina caused significant flooding in early July 2025. Texas experienced historic flooding resulting in at least 104 deaths. Devastating floods in Texas caused over 100 deaths in early July. Days later, more...
Textiles Recycling Expo USA to Debut in April 2026
Textile Value Chain
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July 8, 2025
Discover the Future of Textile Circularity AMI is set to introduce the US edition of its Textiles Recycling Expo at the Charlotte Convention Center, North Carolina, from April 29–30, 2026. The upcoming exhibition and conference aims to build on...
Lawmakers Tried to Weaken Climate Change Goals. Then Came Chantal.
The Assembly - North Carolina
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July 8, 2025
This story is republished as part of our partnership with Inside Climate News. Perched above Chapel Hill’s Bolin Creek Trail, 46,000 tons of coal ash appeared to be intact Monday afternoon, the mound’s slopes anchored by bushes and vines. But at...
Chantal Wreaks Havoc as State Lawmakers Try to Repeal an Ambitious Climate Change Goal
INDY Week - North Carolina
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July 8, 2025
This story originally published at Inside Climate News. Perched above the Bolin Creek Trail, 46,000 tons of coal ash appeared to be intact Monday afternoon, the mound’s slopes anchored by bushes and vines. But at the foot of the ash pile outside...
National Weather Service confirms 4 tornadoes formed in North Carolina during Tropical Storm Chantal
KTVZ - Oregon
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July 8, 2025
Click here for updates on this story ORLANDO, Florida (WXII) — National Weather Service confirms 4 tornadoes formed in North Carolina during Tropical Storm Chantal The National Weather Service has confirmed that four tornadoes touched down in...
Why Are Big Tech Oligarchs Getting Away With Playing God With Our Weather?
Canada Free Press
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When Will Blaming ‘Global Warming’ End & Blaming Big Tech Oligarchs Begin? If only some elected official, authority or bureaucrat had read and paid heed to Canada Free Press senior columnist Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh on June 11—one month before the...
Severe storms, flash flood threat target 85M+ along I-95 covering Washington, DC, Philadelphia and New York
FOX Weather
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July 8, 2025
Severe storms are expected to fire Tuesday afternoon across the mid-Atlantic and Northeast. Washington, D.C., Philadelphia and New York City are under the threat of severe weather. These storms will have periods of strong rain. A flood threat...
NC Credit Union: ‘EPA unlawfully froze funding’ from $7 billion Biden ‘climate grant’
Durham Reporter - North Carolina
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July 8, 2025
Lee Zeldin, Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, left, and Martin Eakes, founder, Self-Help Credit Union | X / Center for Responsbile LendingLee Zeldin, Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, left, and Martin Eakes,...
Severe storms, flash flood risk threaten NYC's Tuesday evening commute
FOX 5 - New York
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FOX 5 NY's Mike Woods has the details. NEW YORK CITY - A severe weather threat is once again on the table for the New York City area during the Tuesday evening commute, with periods of heavy rain, damaging wind gusts and thunderstorms all...
Amanda Balionis' NGO announces major initiative for shelters doing "life saving work" amid Texas flash flood
Sportskeeda
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July 8, 2025
Amanda Balionis and her NGO recently shared an update through their social media accounts. Puppies and Golf announced that they will be actively making contributions towards shelters in the middle of the disastrous Texas flash floods. On July 4,...
Multiple road closures due to flooding in Halifax County Tuesday
WSLS - Virginia
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July 8, 2025
HALIFAX CO., Va. – Multiple roads have been closed in Halifax County due to flooding in the area Tuesday, according to the Halifax Co. Sheriff’s Office. Videos have been shared from the bridge located at the Hyco River on Huell Matthews Hwy and...
Racist Leftists Celebrate the Death of White Kids Killed in Texas Flood
CNSNews
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DONATE At least 27 innocent little girls arrived at their summer camp in Texas last month, only to be washed away by a horrific flash flood in the middle of the night over the July 4 weekend. But according to a plethora of loud-mouthed Black Lives...
Camp Mystic Flood Stirs Up Weather Conspiracy Theories, Rumors
Dallas Observer - Texas
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July 8, 2025
Last weekend, as first responders dug through mud and debris in search of those who the Guadalupe River swept away after it surged 26 feet in 45 minutes in the early morning hours of July 4, somber-faced officials gathered in beige rooms every few...
North Carolina DEQ schedules public hearing on former Alcoa site's water discharge permit
North Raleigh Today - North Carolina
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July 7, 2025
Sam Chan Director of Public Affairs | North Carolina Department of Environmental QualitySam Chan Director of Public Affairs | North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality’s Division of...
North Carolina mules head to Texas to help with recovery efforts
WFMY News 2 - North Carolina
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July 8, 2025
Mountain Mule Packer Ranch uses mules to reach areas impassable with traditional vehicles. KERR COUNTY, Texas — In the aftermath of catastrophic flash flooding that swept through Kerr County in Texas Hill Country, a North Carolina-based disaster...
‘It’s so valuable:’ Virginia’s Operation Blessing gives hot meals to those affected by Texas flooding
WWBT - Virginia
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July 8, 2025
RICHMOND, Va. (WWBT) - New video is now emerging through the lens of Operation Blessing and it shows the extent of the destruction and devastation now facing central Texas. “You can feel it in the ambience, you know, in the air that the pain, the...
Cellphone restrictions, internet safety in new North Carolina law
The Center Square
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July 8, 2025
(The Center Square) – For some North Carolina students and school districts, there could be no change. For others, it’ll be “bye bye” to the cellphones. Access to cellphones and wireless devices is within new legislation that is law for the...
Flood Risk Increases, 2 Inches Of Rain Per Hour Possible In Eastern PA: Forecast
Patch
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July 8, 2025
"Significant" flash floods are possible as a second day of severe rain, and severe heat, swamps the Philly region. Posted Tue, Jul 8, 2025 at 9:48 am ET An even more powerful wave of storms from the remnants of Tropical Storm Chantal will hit the...