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Tropical Storm Edouard slams Texas
Aug 5, 2008, 15:56 GMT
Washington - Tropical Storm Edouard slammed into the Texas coast near the Louisiana border on Tuesday morning, pounding residents with with high winds and heavy rain.
The storm was expected to weaken as it moved inland, the National Hurricane Centre in Miami said.
The storm came ashore with 105-kilometre-per-hour winds, which had weakened to 95 kilometre-per-hour as Edouard moved inland. At 1500 GMT, it was located about 70 kilometres north-north-east of Galveston, the centre said.
About 20,000 homes had lost power, the Houston Chronicle newspaper reported. About 5.4 million people live in the storm's path, the US Census Bureau said.
Edouard, the fifth named storm of the hurricane season, was expected to dump between 8 and 13 centimetres of rain across central Texas. Authorities had warned of possible flash flooding and tornadoes.
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'Glad to see you're finally using the scientific, metric system of measurement and not the outmoded feet, inches, miles etc.'
This is based in the UK and the article was from deutsche presse-agentur so that's why they are using units of measurement that are completely irrelevant to the lives of the people effected by the storm.
In terms of being 'scientific' the USA put a man on the moon and a spacecraft out of the solar system using 'feet, inches, miles etc.'
For people who want the measurements in good old imperial and not european monkey gibberish here is a converter:
www.initium.demon.co.uk/converts/metimp.htm
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peterAug 5th, 2008 - 19:48:37
Glad to see you're finally using the scientific, metric system of measurement and not the outmoded feet, inches, miles etc.
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