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5 October 2017 The Department of Agriculture agreed to waive the usual "hot food" ban for food stamps and denies rejecting an earlier waiver request.
2 October 2017 Reports that truck drivers are on strike in Puerto Rico are false -- Teamsters have asked mainland truckers to distribute supplies in the U.S. territory.
2 October 2017 An old but still thriving urban legend about Walt Disney World in Florida holds that the theme park's tallest structure, Cinderella Castle, was built such that it can be fully or partially dismantled in the event of a hurricane.
27 September 2017 A viral string of tweets gets some facts right about a failed business venture involving a Trump company, but it also leaves out some important context.
11 September 2017 Remarkable images appear to show examples of a real meteorological phenomenon called "negative surge."
7 September 2017 The app works as advertised, but it does have some distance limitations.
Updated Storm lore holds that you should open a window slightly during a hurricane to equalize the inner pressure of a house with the outside lower pressure accompanying the hurricane.
26 August 2017 The hurricane was a massive Category 4 storm when it made landfall.
2 June 2017 The two agencies most important to predicting and managing weather-related disasters face budget cuts and temporary bosses.
6 April 2017 A 2014 study makes this argument, but its findings are complex and contested.
5 October 2016 A viral clip of a Hurricane Matthew satellite map depicting the storm 'looping' to hit Florida twice was one of many speculative storm scenarios (but not an official forecast).
Updated A Congresswoman once called for hurricanes to be given African-American names so that "all racial groups would be represented."
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