When compared to tornadoes, derechos and hailstorms, it does seem somewhat ironic: Humble rain, often gentle, is life-sustaining, nourishing and thus benign 99percentt of the time.
You know, he says, theres a housing shortage due to the derecho, so the Greenbrier arranged to have some of the caddies stay in the Bunker..
And he was in Virginia earlier this year "for whatever that was," as he put it, referring to the derecho, the odd straight-line windstorm that struck the Washington area hard.
Evidence supporting the existence of climate change is pummeling the United States this summer, from the mountain wildfires of Colorado to the recent "derecho" storm that left at least 23 dead and 1.4 million people without power from Illinois to Virginia.
In September, members of Congress devoted much of a Capitol Hill hearing to exploring the derecho outages in Northern Virginia.
You may recall this amazing panorama photo taken almost exactly a year ago when another big storm, that also threatened to become a derecho, swept through the city.
But Kat Rodriguez, program director for Coalición de Derechos Humanos, continues to recommend that tourists stay away, musicians cancel for-profit concerts and conventions look elsewhere for meeting space.
In 2005, a group of young women in Villa El Carmen, a rural area of Nicaragua, established Asociación Movimiento de Mujeres por Nuestros Derechos Humanos (MOMUNDH) to combat widespread violence against women in their community.
To combat exploitation, Centro de los Derechos del Migrante (CDM) created Contratados, an online platform that provides key information to enable migrant workers to make informed migration and work choices.
