Weather
Red Cross Still Hasn’t Spent $110M of $300M in Sandy Donations
NBC 10 reports: “Seven months after Superstorm Sandy, the Red Cross still hasn’t spent more than a third of the $303 million it raised to […]
Pottstown Hotel Has Sneaky Plan to Profit from Oklahoma Tornado
A Comfort Inn & Suites in Pottstown has a plan to help out victims from the Oklahoma tornado: It’ll donate $1 to the Red Cross […]
Video: The One Heartwarming Moment from the Oklahoma Tornado
Amid the rubble and lost lives that a powerful tornado wrought on Moore, Oklahoma yesterday, Gawker flagged down a little bit of uplift. In this […]
Devastating Oklahoma Tornado Has Killed At Least 51
A tornado that swept through Moore, Oklahoma yesterday afternoon has killed at least 51 people, according to the New York Times. Moore, 10 miles south […]
Flower Show Isn’t Only Victim of TV News’ Wrong Weather Forecasts
The President of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, Drew Becher, is ticked at Kathy Orr, Cecily Tynan and Sheena Parveen. The coven of weather women and their […]
Forecast: Three Hurricanes To Hit U.S. This Season
Uh-oh: AccuWeather.com’s long-range team predicts 16 named tropical storms, eight hurricanes and four major hurricanes for the 2013 Atlantic hurricane season. Of these, three are […]
Seaside Heights Roller Coaster Will Be Removed…After Prince Harry Sees It Tomorrow
Among the ghoulish, abandoned reminders of Hurricane Sandy’s destruction, none looms larger than the Seaside Heights roller coaster. And apparently that roller coaster is about […]
Six Months After Sandy, Cat Returns Home
During Hurricane Sandy, Porsche the cat—yes, that’s really the cat’s name—from home in Chadwick Island, Toms River to Point Pleasant, eight miles away. The cat escaped. […]
Sandy-Damaged Scratch Tickets Sickening Jersey Lotto Workers
Six months after Hurricane Sandy, the after affects are still being felt…in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. Though it may be located 50 miles west of the […]
Angry, Cursing Chris Christie Has Returned
N.J. Gov. Chris Christie never disappoints—or, at least, he doesn’t do so for long. After making his name as a tough-talking rootin’ tootin’ take-no-prisoners sheriff […]
Christie: Obama “Kept Every Promise” on Hurricane Sandy
Today on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough gave Chris Christie a big fat piece of political bait, asking him why New Jersey’s storm recovery was […]
Guess Which Area Governor Made Time’s “100 Most Influential” List?
No, not Tom Corbett, silly! Recent Time coverboy Chris Christie, for his role during Hurricane Sandy. (The entry was written by a fourth-grader whom he […]
Shore Could Lose FEMA Money Thanks to Christie’s Suspect Deal-Making
After Hurricane Sandy struck, Chris Christie awarded a bulk of the debris cleanup to a Florida company called AshBritt, without letting other contractors bid on […]
Is the Jersey Shore Coming Back? Wildwoods Named Top 10 Tourist Town
The Wildwoods, which were largely spared by Hurricane Sandy, have been named to FamilyFun magazine’s top-ten list of tourist towns. (This wasn’t some arbitrary ranking […]
Prince Harry To Visit Victims Of Hurricane Sandy
AP reports that Prince Harry—the naughtier, more-0ften naked brother—will visit New Jersey soon to tour areas hit hard by Hurricane Sandy. He’ll also raise money […]