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about.com Owned by the New York Times and visited by 34 million visitors per month. This top 10 content site wrote an article about cities most affected by tropical storms & hurricanes from the hurricanecity rankings and Database.here Writer Kathy Gill wrote this article under heading (U.S politics: current events) from Sept 19th,2005.Click the image to the right to read the article.
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allheadline news wire Allheadlinenews.com is where the nations newspapers gather news stories throughout the day. Before the 2005 season started , writer Douglas Maher interviewed Jim Williams about hurricanes. Clickhere to read the story by mousing over it to enlarge it.You can also click on the image to the right for the interview.
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Bangkokpost.com This internationally known newspaper has a website, as all do and is very popular online. Each week the writers of this paper choose a few websites to discuss. On Wednesday March 27th, 2002 hurricanecity.com was mentioned. Click the image to the right to view and read that column.
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Baynews9.com Hurricane season starts soon,in May of 2005 Baynews 9 television had hurricanecity on "todays extras". Bay News 9's Al Ruechel has hurricanecity as a website you'll want to checkout. Hurricanecity was featured on the 6PM newscast in Tampa,click here for the video.
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Bryan Norcross ,Sun-Sentinel Weather Column Bryan Norcross wrote a column for the Sun-sentinel newspaper in the 1990s in Ft Lauderdale called "Ask Bryan Why" he is also famous for talking people through Hurricane Andrew in 1992. On December 6th 1999 Bryan responded to a question asking how many Hurricanes have hit Tampa in which he suggested go to the Tampa page in the database at Hurricanecity. Bryan Also has worked for the CBS morning show and the local South Florida CBS affiliate. Click image to read.
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Central florida news channel 13 On June 13th ,2005 after coverage of Tropical Storm Arlene,hurricanecity was mentioned by Channel 13 news in the Orlando area.Al Ruechel said the site does a pretty good job collecting some rather unusual resources that kick in once a big storm has formed anywhere in the Atlantic. |
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Charlotte news channel 14 On Sept 5th 2002 this channel mentioned hurricanecity & it's many uses. They like the message board as well as the radio station links. Click image to right to view the article. |
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| Channel 4 news Jacksonville Meteorologist John Gaughan surfs the web every weekday morning on the "Daybreak Show". On June 4th, 2001 John talked about hurricanecity.com as one of his favorites. He is another meteorologist that likes to use the Hurricanecity Database which gives detailed analysis for 150 cities in the Atlantic basin for effects from tropical systems. John takes hurricanes very seriously & more meteorologists like him are needed, Jacksonville is fortunate to have him. Click on picture to read.
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| The Cincinnati PostIn 1999, Steven Lomax reviewed websites that cater to Hurricane trackers. He called the site Gaudy but impressive. Steven seems to really get what Hurricanecity is all about. Getting as close to the storm as possible! |
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| Counterpunch.org"America's best newsletter". This political website for news, mentioned Hurricanecity as "the website of the day". This was done during Hurricane Charley in 2004 as we got a ton of visitors from the listing. Click the small image to the right to see the listing. |
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| Hurricane Research DivisionThe Hurricane Research Division located in Miami, is dedicated to understanding more about Hurricanes. Many people use this website to gather statistics on past Hurricanes. The reseach division has decided to add Hurricanecity to a few of it's searches for statistical as well as news information on Hurricanes. Being listed here speaks for itself, as these are the true Hurricane experts. Click image to the right to see just one of the listings.
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| The Gambit weeklyIn Sept of 2006,the Weekly Gambit featured a story on Hurricanecity.com. This was the hurricane season following the 2005 season where Hurricane Katrina caused historic damage to New Orleans.This was a nice article talking about most of the products produced by hurricanecity and how you get so much more out of the site compared to mainstream media websites. Click on the image to the right to read the whole story,mouse over the image to enlarge in your browser.
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| Web Watch from Jacksonville.comFrom best bets on the web Mentioned on August 15th 2004. Mentions the live audio available on the website. Click the small image to the right to see the listing. |
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| MSNBC Television During MSNBCs' coverage of Hurricane Floyd in 1999, the station covered the internet angle of things. Internet correspondant Lisa Napoli talked about hurricanecity.com & the wealth of information concerning Hurricane Floyd. She paid particular attention to the audio & radio station part of the site as she said "Hurricanecity is making this a seamless experience with a lot of information, and it's almost like being there". Click on the MSNBC logo to watch the video.
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| MSNBC online While tracking Hurricane Rita in Sept 2005,cover producer Josh Belzman did a story on not just using NOAA websites to track hurricanes. Read the article here.
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| MSN money section On MSN's money central under planning & insurance,hurricanecity was mentioned. They were referencing the hurricanecity database where you can found out how often certain cities get hit based on climatology. click the image to read the story.
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| Natural History Magazine This monthly distributed magazine has a readership audience that spends an average of 82 minutes reading each issue,which according to this magazine is much higher than most other magazines. The September of 1999 Issue had a story called "Ocean Tantrums" discussing the increased activity and the threat to land from hurricanes. Hurricanecity.com was mentioned as the site to go to for hurricane tracking information sandwiched between the National Hurricane Center site & The Hurricane Research Division site. Not bad company at all, click the image to read .
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| NewScientist.com This science magazine writes articles about the the top websites in science. On November 2nd, 2001 the site magazine discusses hurricanecity.com in a mostly positive way. They did mention how the site has an unattractive look & cluttered with advertising but is worth exploring in spite of that weakness. Come on people, a wealth of information does not come without cost. Click on image to read.
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| Palm beach post This large newspaper is distributed in Palm beach and the gold coast of Florida. On august 7th ,2006 this paper did a story on Hurricane Trackers throughout the country. Alot of these guys put alot of time and money into these projects, so the story was well deserved.
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| Palm beach post neighborhood post This local paper did a story on Jim Williams and how he started hurricanecity.com in September of 2007,click to the right for story.
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| Popular Mechanics This magazine did a story on the hurricanecity ranking of the Cayman Islands being the most affected area in the ATlantic basin.The story was written on Sept 1st, 2009 titled "8 of the Most Dangerous Places (To Live) on the Planet". Click the image to the right to get the headline.
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| Reuters News Reuters News mentioned the hurricanecity rankings for the June 1st,kickoff of the 2009 Hurricane Season.Click image to right to read the article.
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| Top Ten Hurricane Resources This ranking website takes just about every subject & ranks the top 10 sites online for each subject. Since September of 1999, hurricanecity.com has been ranked in the top ten with such notable sites as the National Hurricane Center & Storm 99. If the text link above is dead it is because they change the URL often, click on the image at right to see up close.
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| The Washington Post A News site called Newsbytes reviews websites & writer Wendy Woods from Minnesota wrote about hurricanecity.com on November 7th, 2001. She calls Hurricanecity a "one stop shop" for Hurricane info. You can see for yourself a hurricane or tropical storm in action ,departing, or approaching on the world wide web. Finally, someone mentioned the true intention of this website.
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| Kenneth Lamb WCOA radio show Kenneth Lamb has two radio shows. (Cybersmart Saturday) and (Sunday Morning with Kenneth Lamb). Jim Williams "hurricanecity.com" have been a quest on his shows during Hurricane threats. The station WCOA in Pensacola reaches from Biloxi,Mississippi all the way to Tampa,Florida. Kenneth Lamb also writes for the Miami Herald,New York Times ,Pensacola News Journal & the St Petersburg Times.
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| WPMI news station NBC Pensacola This station covers from Alabama to Ft walton bch,Florida. They have great hurricane coverage when they are threatened. On June 11th 2005 during the approach of Tropical storm Arlene they linked to hurricanecity along with the national Hurricane center.
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| Yahoo Full Coverage When a major breaking news story happens, Yahoo news links to the event page from the front page of Yahoo search engine. Hurricanecity has been listed as an information website for Hurricanes along with other popular Newspapers.
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