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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Tag: Disasters

Crying, puking, coming back

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 26, 2012, 3:07 PM Jun 26, 2012
1

Laughing Loon Farm was down and out after flooding and a hailstorm earlier this month. Now it’s just down. Nobody’s counting it out.

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The new river routes

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 22, 2012, 1:22 PM Jun 22, 2012
5

It’s likely some things are never going to be the way they were before this week’s flood in the Northland.

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More video from Duluth

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 20, 2012, 2:21 PM Jun 20, 2012
1

Another round of videos from the Northland.

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Twitter’s — and Dave’s — big day

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 20, 2012, 12:17 PM Jun 20, 2012
13

The social network shows its news chops on a breaking story.

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Disastrous beauty

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 13, 2012, 11:55 AM Jun 13, 2012

As with most disasters that have a pretty edge to them, the closer you get, the less pretty it becomes.

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What do people have against north Minneapolis?

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 20, 2012, 9:04 AM May 20, 2012
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This week is the one-year anniversary of the devastating tornado in north Minneapolis and it’s pretty clear there remains — in some quarters — a “serves ’em right” mentality that we likely wouldn’t see if the tornado had hit, say, south Minneapolis.

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Weather

Tsunami bullet, dodged

Paul TostoPaul Tosto April 11, 2012, 9:01 AM Apr 11, 2012

This tsunami watch appears to have a happy ending.

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Weather

1,000 words: The cleanup

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 3, 2012, 9:36 AM Mar 3, 2012
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This is a scene being repeated all over the country today as people return to their destroyed homes to find pieces of their lives in the rubble from tornadoes. This morning, Marta Righthouse of Marysville, Indiana was one of the people pulling out what seems to be everyone’s first choice — the family photo albums. Read more →

Two pictures: The earthquakes

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 21, 2012, 12:45 PM Feb 21, 2012
1

Few people talk about Haiti anymore, two years after its earthquake.

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To the sea in ships

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 24, 2012, 10:54 AM Jan 24, 2012

If you were on the Costa Concordia, the cruise ship that capsized when it his rocks off the Italian coast, what would it take to get you back on a cruise?

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Cruise ship photo: Fake or real?

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 17, 2012, 4:13 PM Jan 17, 2012
8

Questioning an image makings its way around the Internet.

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Two Pictures: One kid at a time

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 9, 2011, 1:38 PM Nov 9, 2011
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The beauty of relief workers is they understand the value of ‘one at a time.’

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The air race crash: Getting to ‘what happened?’

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 18, 2011, 8:55 AM Sep 18, 2011
5

The amount of loaded adjectives and supposition in a story is in inverse proportion to the amount of facts and good journalism therein.

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The beauty of disaster

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 14, 2011, 2:01 PM Sep 14, 2011
2

What is it about nature’s ‘disasters’ that can be so beautiful?

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Big plane sits while wildfires burn

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 8, 2011, 9:21 AM Sep 8, 2011
1

One of the frustrations of fighting wildfires is how long it takes to get the resources deployed to fight them.

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