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Sebastian Bach’s Home Flooded Due to Hurricane Irene
Skid Row front man, Sebastian Bach, is literally on skid row with the millions of others after Hurricane Irene flooded his home in New Jersey.
Bach's home for the past 21 years, once featured on MTV Cribs, was condemned deemed uninhabitable.
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Hurricane Irene Aftermath — At Least 44 Dead and Millions Without Power [VIDEO]
Cleanup efforts have begun in communities that were devastated by Hurricane Irene over the weekend. Although trucks and supplies from the Federal Emergency Management Agency are en route, access to some areas has been cut off by floodwaters that washed out or damaged roads and bridges.
“Irene was gonna land somewhere. We’re not Manhattan, our small streams quickly became big rivers,” Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin told The Brattleboro (Vt.) Reformer. “We’ve lost churches, homes and historic bridges. But we will rebuild.”
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This Day in History for August 29 – Hurricane Katrina Strikes and More
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Streaker Flashes a Live Weather Channel Broadcast
The Weather Channel has never really needed a delay button before, but it may want to look into getting one now.
During a live broadcast from Hurricane Irene-ravaged Virginia on Saturday, reporter Eric Fisher was unexpectedly upstaged when a dude dressed in swim trunks ran behind him, pulled his trunks down and gave “weather front” a whole new meaning.
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Irene Stinks! Watch News Correspondent Get Covered in Raw Sewage [VIDEO]
Whenever natural disasters strike, news stations often send out a few poor saps to report from the scene. With Hurricane Irene, we typically saw wind-whipped, rain-soaked correspondents in various locations talking about the storm’s fury.
But if there’s an award for Most Deserving of Hazard Pay, it has to go to Washington, DC Fox affiliate WTTG’s Tucker Barnes.
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Hurricane Irene Marches North, Claiming Four Lives Thus Far [MAP, VIDEO]
Over a million people in North Carolina and Virginia are currently without power after Hurricane Irene came ashore on Saturday, and other states further north are bracing for impact on Sunday.
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The Funniest Tweets About Hurricane Irene
Hurricane Irene has apparently been busy. Not only is the storm barreling toward the East Coast, she's joined Twitter in the form of a parody account, reminiscent of the Bronx Zoo Cobra. The storm has also been inspir
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Shark Swims Down Puerto Rico Street [PICTURE]
As Hurricane Irene nears the East coast, there’s been talk of evacuating below-sea-level areas from Florida all the way to New England. If you’ve got a fear of flooding, it’ll only be bolstered by this horrifying photo out of water-logged Puerto Rico. In the shot taken from a car, a shark can be clearly seen swimming down the highway, like something out of a terrible Samuel L. Jackson movie.
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Car Commercial Being Filmed in Virginia Captures East Coast Earthquake [VIDEO]
The 5.8 earthquake that struck yesterday gave folks all over the middle part of the East Coast something to breathlessly discuss. Yet, no one seems to have been seriously injured in the shake. In other words, BEST EARTHQUAKE EVER!
In Chantilly, Virginia, which is not too far from the quake’s epicenter, an auto shop was shooting a commercial when the ground went wobbly. Here is the footage from the shoot, which pretty much sums up the essence of the East Coast earthquake — a brief rush of fear followed by the baffling realization that you just experienced an earthquake.
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Hurricanes are the A-Holes of Weather
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Mt. Etna in Italy Blows Smoke Rings [VIDEO]
One of the most seen images this week were from Italy where Mt. Etna was literally blowing smoke rings! Apparently, smoke rings are extremely rare and have only been documented three times. And what's even more weird is that this is the third time Mt. Etna has blown smoke rings. The last two times were in 1970 and 2000. The only other occurance on record happened in Iceland last year from Eyjafjallajokull. The BBC has more on this natural phenomena here.