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CLIMATE
Global warming exists; Pilgrim is located on a coastline subject to increasingly severe storms and erosion. Given these climate events, Rocky Hill Road, Plymouth is a very poor location for a nuclear reactor and storage of highly toxic radioactive waste.
During severe storms roads flood and become impassible. This has real implications for emergency planning – consider, for example, Saquish, Gurnet and Duxbury Beach.
It is important, too, not to forget that so called “low level” radioactive waste was allowed to be
buried on site. Hot spots have not been cleaned up. It would be unfortunate if they were not cleaned up and were washed into Cape Cod Bay.
Storms
Boston Globe Archives
IT SEEMS TO BE GETTING ROUGHER OUT THERE
ROGUE WAVES
Published on January 8, 1996
David L. Chandler, GLOBE STAFF
After a near-record season of Atlantic hurricanes and battering by a succession of winter northeasters, New Englanders may not want to hear this. But some scientists say there is evidence that the North Atlantic is getting stormier and that average wave heights are on the increase. If confirmed, that could be bad news not only for coastal residents, who have already seen beaches stripped away and houses swept off their foundations, but also for sailors, fishing vessels and such vulnerable...
AWAITING DISASTER: THE NEXT BIG BLOW CATASTROPIC HURRICANES WILL STRIKE HERE
AGAIN
Published on July 25, 1999
by Paul E. Kandarian, Globe Correspondent
If you think Hurricane Gloria in 1985 was a bad storm, or Hurricane Bob in 1991, hang onto your rain hats, southern New England, because according to the experts, you ain't seen nothing yet. "I like to say, `Welcome to Buzzards Bay, the Miami Beach of the north,' " said David Vallee, hurricane program director for the National Weather Service regional forecast office in Taunton, referring to the Florida
beachfront community's vulnerability to severe weather. ...
NEAR-PERFECT HURRICANE CROP COULD BE ON WAY
Published on August 25, 2000
by TONY CHAMBERLAIN, GLOBE STAFF
A certain day of the sailing season marks the beginning of the phase called late summer. It is when the boatyard folks attach a second pennant to the mooring, a steel cord to give the boat more of a chance to ride out a hurricane.
As this summer of "The Perfect Storm" matures, we are once again reminded that late August is the time hurricanes begin to rise and rumble about the South, now and then taking a run up the seaboard.
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ISABEL DRENCHES N.C., VA. COASTLINES
Published on September 19, 2003
by Susan Milligan, and Raja Mishra, Globe Staff
ATLANTIC BEACH, N.C. - A diminished yet still formidable Hurricane Isabel lashed the mid-Atlantic coastal region yesterday with 90-mile-per-hour winds and sheets of rain that caused power outages for more than 2.5 million people and flooding in North Carolina and Virginia, and was blamed for at least seven deaths.
President Bush declared a major disaster yesterday in North Carolina and Virginia because of Isabel's fury,
ordering federal aid to both states...
REGION GIRDS FOR RAINS; HIGH WINDS ARE FEARED
Published on September 16, 1999
by Thomas Farragher, Globe Staff
As Hurricane Floyd tormented the Carolinas, New England braced for its stubborn fury yesterday, preparing for punishing rains and the winds of a still-dangerous storm. "If this thing glides a little to the east, it could zoom up Buzzards Bay as a Category 2 hurricane," said Peter Judge, a spokesman for the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency.
"From one end of the state to the other, something awful could come out of this thing," he said. ...
FLOYD STORMS INTO N.E. WIND FORCE DIMINISHED, BUT HEAVY RAINS CAUSE FLOODING
Published on September 17, 1999
by Thomas Farragher and Francie Latour, Globe Staff
A storm named Floyd, stripped of its hurricane ferocity, sailed through New England last night bearing heavy rains, dying winds, and only hints of the terror it once commanded as a meteorological "monster."
In its wake, the storm left downed power lines, put 20,000 Massachusetts residents in the dark, caused flooding and mudslides, stalled traffic, and felled trees, but by this morning was expected to leave only
gusty winds as a reminder. ...
Erosion
STORM SCENARIO FOR 2100: HAVOC ON MASS. COAST
Published on August 28, 1998
by Scott Allen, Globe Staff
New England appears likely to dodge the worst of Hurricane Bonnie, but if sea levels continue to rise as a result of global warming, the destruction wrought by future storms could wipe out many seaside oases, according to a sobering animation released yesterday by an environmental research group. The video, produced by the National Environmental Trust, suggests that a three-foot rise in sea levels
-- which could happen within 100 years at projected rates -- ...
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Earthquake Zone
Scientists report that a big earthquake could hit Massachusetts at any time.
Boston Globe
MINOR TREMOR MAY BE SIGN OF FUTURE BAY STATE VULNERABLE TO MAJOR QUAKE; ONE COULD OCCUR 'ANY TIME'
SCIENTIST SAYS
Published on July 23, 1993
by Dolores Kong and Paul Langner, Globe Staff
Although the earthquake that hit southeastern Massachusetts early yesterday was minor -- 2.9 on the Richter scale -- a big one could hit New England at any time, causing as much as $10 billion in damage if it were to strike near Boston, earthquake specialists say. Scientists estimate a major earthquake ranking about 5 on the Richter scale occurs in New England about once every 60 years. A temblor of 6 or greater -- the size of one that hit New England in 1755 and the 1989 California quake.
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