2010 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Bonnie
Despite degenerating into a remnant low, Bonnie produced more substantial rainfall totals across Louisiana and Mississippi, officially peaking at 5.75 in (146 mm) in Tylertown. Radar estimates of 8–9 in (203–229 mm) of rain prompted flash flooding which washed out more than 20 roads and bridges in Washington Parish, while about 110 homes were flooded in West Baton Rouge Parish. Remnant moisture combined with a cold front to produce damaging severe thunderstorms across portions of the Southeast in late July.


2010 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Colin
The interaction of two tropical waves and an upper-level trough led to the development of a tropical depression over the central Atlantic by 12:00 UTC on August 2. The depression steadily organized after formation, intensifying into Tropical Storm Colin by 06:00 UTC on August 3. An abnormally strong ridge to the storm's north steered Colin to the west-northwest; reaching a forward speed up to 30 mph (50 km/h), the system was unable to maintain a closed circulation and instead degenerated into a trough by 18:00 UTC that day.


2010 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Colin
Over the coming days, the trough decelerated and recurved north into a weakness in the ridge while still producing tropical storm-force winds. Satellite imagery showed the reformation of a well-defined circulation by 12:00 UTC on August 5, and the system was once again classified as Tropical Storm Colin. After attaining peak winds of 60 mph (95 km/h), an approaching trough sheared the cyclone and turned it northeast. Colin weakened to a tropical depression by 00:00 UTC on August 8 and degenerated into a trough for a second time twelve hours later; the trough dissipated early on August 9.


2010 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Colin
A tropical storm warning was raised for Bermuda as Colin approached but was later discontinued as it weakened. Average winds of 31 mph (50 km/h) were observed across the island, although peak winds fell just shy of tropical storm intensity at 37 mph (60 km/h). L.F. Wade International Airport received 0.16 in (4.06 mm) of rainfall. Although Colin steered well clear of the Carolinas, swells from the storm prompted at least 205 water rescues, and a rip current off Ocracoke led to the drowning of one man.


2010 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Depression Five
A non-tropical area of low pressure, first noted over the Gulf Stream on August 7, entered the southeastern Gulf of Mexico and organized into a tropical depression about 120 mi (195 km) west of Fort Myers, Florida, by 18:00 UTC on August 10. As the newly formed cyclone moved west-northwest, a nearby upper-level low imparted high wind shear and dry air entrainment, and the depression degenerated into a remnant low twelve hours later without attaining tropical storm intensity. Upon degeneration, the low moved into the Gulf Coast of the United States and conducted a clockwise loop. It emerged into the Gulf of Mexico again on August 16, where the disturbance nearly regenerated into a tropical cyclone before making a second landfall in Mississippi the next day. The remnants dissipated over the southeastern portion of the state on August 18.


2010 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Depression Five
The tropical depression produced waves up to 3 ft (0.9 m) around Anna Maria Island, where two people died of fatigue-related heart attacks after being caught in a rip current. Heavy rainfall in the New Orleans, Louisiana and Mobile, Alabama areas—aided by instability from the remnants of the depression—flooded streets, inundating an apartment complex in the former city and cutting power to 1,921 customers in the latter city. Forty homes and businesses were flooded in Avoyelles Parish. Rainfall accumulations peaked south of Natchez, Mississippi, where 13.9 in (353 mm) was documented.


2010 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Danielle
The interaction of a vigorous tropical wave and a disturbance within the Intertropical Convergence Zone led to the formation of a tropical depression about 520 mi (835 km) west-southwest of Cabo Verde by 18:00 UTC on August 21. Steered by a ridge to its north, the depression steadily organized as it moved west-northwest, intensifying into Tropical Storm Danielle by 06:00 UTC on August 22 and attaining hurricane intensity the following day. Influenced by moderate wind shear initially, Danielle maintained its status as a minimal hurricane for several days.


2010 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Danielle
Early on August 26, however, a more conducive environment led to rapid intensification, and by 18:00 UTC the next day, the storm attained its peak intensity as a Category 4 hurricane with winds of 130 mph (210 km/h). Danielle began to round the western periphery of the steering ridge after peak intensity, curving northeast as it began an eyewall replacement cycle. The inner core change, combined with progressively cooler waters, resulted in the system weakening to a tropical storm by 18:00 UTC on August 30 and degenerating into a remnant low six hours later. The low became extratropical on August 31 maintained distinct until dissipating well east-southeast of Greenland on September 3.


2010 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Danielle
A tropical storm watch was issued for Bermuda on August 27 but swiftly canceled the next day as Danielle steered well clear of the island. Swells from the powerful hurricane reached the East Coast of the United States, leading to the rescues of 250 people in Ocean City, Maryland and an additional 70 people off the coast of Central Florida.


2010 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Danielle
The body of a man—whose death appeared to have been from drowning—was pulled from the waters of Satellite Beach, Florida; a second man went missing in Ocean City, but his body was never recovered and the search was eventually called off. Researchers examining the wreckage of RMS Titanic were forced to seek refuge in St. John's, Newfoundland; swells as large as 10 ft (3 m) impacted the coastline of Newfoundland.


2010 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Earl
A vigorous tropical wave entered the Atlantic on August 23, developing into a tropical depression off the western coast of Africa two days later at 06:00 UTC. The nascent depression steadily intensified as it moved west-northwest, becoming Tropical Storm Earl six hours after formation and further strengthening into a hurricane by 12:00 UTC on August 29. A weakness in the steering ridge, created by leading Hurricane Danielle, caused Earl to narrowly miss the northern Leeward Islands as it strengthened into a Category 4 hurricane on August 30.


2010 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Earl
Intensification was temporarily stunted as the cyclone underwent an eyewall replacement cycle, but Earl ultimately attained peak winds of 145 mph (235 km/h) by 06:00 UTC on September 2. Increased shear and a second replacement cycle caused the hurricane to rapidly weaken thereafter. It weakened to a tropical storm by 00:00 UTC on September 4, and although the system briefly re-attained hurricane intensity as it moved ashore near Liverpool, Nova Scotia, Earl transitioned into an extratropical cyclone twelve hours later. The extratropical low merged with another system over the Labrador Sea the next day.


2010 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Earl
Severe impacts from Earl in Antigua and Barbuda amounted to EC $34 million ($12.6 million USD). One person was electrocuted trying to restore power. Wind gusts neared or surpassed hurricane force across Guadeloupe and the French islands, peaking at 105 mph (170 km/h) in Gustavia. Approximately 7,500 residents were left without power across Saint Martin, Saint Barthélemy, and Guadeloupe. Heavy rainfall and strong wind gusts battered Saint Kitts and Nevis, leaving streets flooded and many residences without power.


2010 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Earl
In the British Virgin Islands, wind gusts up to 88 mph (142 km/h) damaged or destroyed dozens of structures, resulting in up to $7 million in damage. Substantial effects were also observed in the U.S. Virgin Islands, where total infrastructure losses were placed at $2.5 million and revenue losses from deterred vacationers reached $10.7 million. Flooding and downed power lines in Puerto Rico left 187,000 residents without power and an additional 60,000 without water access.


2010 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Earl
As Earl paralleled the East Coast of the United States, it produced varying degrees of impact; North Carolina was hardest hit, with over $3.5 million in damage. Three people were killed in rough seas off Florida, one person was killed by rough seas off Maine, and two people were killed by rip currents off New Jersey. Approximately 940,000 people were left without power across Nova Scotia and surrounding areas, where one death occurred.


2010 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Fiona
A large and convective tropical wave moved off the western coast of Africa in late August, developing into a tropical depression by 12:00 UTC on August 30 about 1,035 mi (1,665 km) east of the Lesser Antilles. Satellite imagery and data from a research aircraft indicated the depression intensified into Tropical Storm Fiona six hours later. Directed by an expansive mid-level ridge to its north, the cyclone moved west-northwest for several days, attaining peak winds of 65 mph (105 km/h) by 18:00 UTC on September 1 as it passed close to the northern Leeward Islands.


2010 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Fiona
Fiona's position between the mid-level ridge and the large circulation of Hurricane Earl off The Carolinas turned the storm northwest and then north as it encountered increasingly strong wind shear and began to weaken. Expansive outflow from Earl caused Fiona's low-level circulation to become dislocated from its convection, and the system degenerated into a remnant low by 00:00 UTC on September 4. The remnant low passed near Bermuda, producing light winds and about 0.78 in (19.8 mm) of rainfall, before dissipating the next day.


2010 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Gaston
A strong tropical wave organized into a tropical depression by 06:00 UTC on September 1 about 920 mi (1,480 km) west-southwest of Cabo Verde. With a burst of convection near its center, the depression was upgraded to Tropical Storm Gaston six hours later and reached peak winds of 40 mph (65 km/h). Despite initial projections that Gaston would become an increasingly strong hurricane over the central Atlantic, exceptionally dry air began to wrap in the storm after peak.


2010 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Gaston
It weakened to a tropical depression by 00:00 UTC on September 2 and further degenerated into a remnant low by 18:00 UTC that day. The system nearly regenerated into a tropical cyclone the following day as shallow convection wrapped into the center, but the increased organization was transient and it ultimately remained a remnant low until dissipating southeast on the Dominican Republic on September 8. The remnants of Gaston produced sporadic rainfall across Puerto Rico, peaking at 3.03 in (76.9 mm) in Naguabo.


2010 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Hermine
The East Pacific's Tropical Depression Eleven-E moved across Mexico and degenerated into a remnant low on September 4. Its low and mid-level circulations survived crossing Mexico and entered the southern Bay of Campeche, reforming as a tropical depression by 18:00 UTC on September 5. Steered north to north-northwest, the cyclone quickly strengthened as deep convection fired over its center; it intensified into Tropical Storm Hermine by 06:00 UTC on September 6 and attained peak winds of 70 mph (115 km/h) by 02:00 UTC the following day as it made landfall near Matamoros, Mexico. Despite being well inland, Hermine continued to maintain an inner core and only slowly weakened. It fell to tropical depression status over central Texas by 00:00 UTC on September 8 and ultimately dissipated over southeastern Kansas by 06:00 UTC on September 10.


2010 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Hermine
Tropical storm-force winds affected mainly coastal sections of northern Mexico; Matamoros recorded peak sustained winds of 53 mph (85 km/h) with gusts to 67 mph (108 km/h). Dozens of structures were damaged, trees and power lines were downed, and many residents were left without power. Impact was more significant across the United States—most notably in Texas—where 283 homes sustained minor damage, 231 homes sustained major damage, and 68 homes were destroyed. Torrential rainfall, peaking at 16.37 in (415.8 mm) in Georgetown, forced more than 100 high water rescues. In Oklahoma, flash flooding resulted in severe infrastructure damage. Several tornadoes touched down in both states. Seven people were killed in Texas and one in Oklahoma, while the total damage total reached $240 million.


2010 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Igor
The most intense hurricane of the season began as a tropical wave that organized into a tropical depression southeast of Cabo Verde early on September 8. Initial organization was fast-paced, and the depression intensified into Tropical Storm Igor six hours after formation. Igor moved west to west-northwest for several days while embedded within the monsoon trough. Increased vertical shear caused the cyclone to temporarily weaken to a tropical depression by 12:00 UTC on September 9, but it re-attained tropical storm intensity the next day and further strengthened to a hurricane by 00:00 UTC on September 12.


2010 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Igor
After rapid intensification and a subsequent eyewall replacement cycle, Igor attained its peak with maximum sustained winds of 155 mph (250 km/h) by 00:00 UTC on September 15. Inner core changes continued after peak, and Igor continued as a Category 4 hurricane for several days until increased shear and dry air entrainment forced a consistent weakening trend early on September 17. The system recurved north-northeast while passing within 60 mi (95 km) of Bermuda as a minimal hurricane. It eventually made landfall near Cape Race, Newfoundland with winds of 85 mph (135 km/h) by 15:00 UTC on September 21 and transitioned into an extratropical cyclone three hours later. The extratropical low was absorbed by a larger such system between Greenland and Labrador on September 23.


2010 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Igor
Although Igor steered well clear of the Caribbean, large swells of 15–20 ft (4.6–6.1 m) propagated from the storm, drowning one person in St. Croix and another in Puerto Rico. Large waves affected the East Coast of the United States, and one person drowned in Surf City, North Carolina. In Bermuda, sustained winds of 91 mph (146 km/h) and gusts up to 117 mph (188 km/h) downed trees and power lines, cutting power to approximately 28,000 residents. Rainfall was largely insignificant, peaking at 3.19 in (81 mm). Impacts near the storm's landfall in Newfoundland were more severe.


2010 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Igor
Rainfall amounts of more than 2 in (50 mm) were widespread, with a peak of 9.37 in (238 mm) in St Lawrence; as such, Igor ranks as the third wettest tropical cyclone to impact Atlantic Canada. Run-off from the torrential rainfall damaged or destroyed structures, killed a man when his driveway was washed out and he was swept away, and isolated approximately 150 communities. Sustained winds of 80 mph (130 km/h) with gusts to 107 mph (172 km/h) in Cape Pine downed trees and power lines while damaging or destroying many homes. Approximately 50,000 households lost power during the peak of the storm. The overall damage total reached $200 million across Newfoundland, making Igor the costliest hurricane on record there. It was regarded as the worst storm of tropical origin to hit Newfoundland since 1935.


2010 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Julia
A vigorous tropical wave moved off the western coast of Africa on September 11 and almost immediately led to the formation of a tropical depression by 06:00 UTC the next day. Steered in a traditional west-northwest fashion, the depression intensified into Tropical Storm Julia twelve hours later and continued steady strengthening to become a hurricane by 12:00 UTC September 14. As a reminder of limited hurricane intensity forecasting skill, the system began a period of rapid intensification thereafter, attaining peak winds of 140 mph (225 km/h) by 12:00 UTC on September 15.


2010 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Julia
Julia became the easternmost Category 4 hurricane on record in the Atlantic as a result. After peak, the system recurved around a ridge while simultaneously weakening under influence of Hurricane Igor's outflow. It fell back to tropical storm intensity by 00:00 UTC on September 18 and degenerated into a remnant low by 18:00 UTC on September 20 while located about 1,095 mi (1,760 km) west of the Azores. The remnant low turned back west, dissipating late on September 24.


2010 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Julia
The Government of Cabo Verde issued a tropical storm warning for the island chain as Julia approached. Gusts of 24–30 mph (38–48 km/h) damaged maize crops, and waves of 9.8–14.8 ft (3.0–4.5 m) affected the coastline. Landslides isolated the community of Covão Grande. Rainfall was insignificant, peaking at 0.39 in (9.91 mm) in Sal.


2010 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Karl
The interaction of a tropical wave and another elongated trough led to the development of a tropical depression by 12:00 UTC on September 14 about 375 mi (605 km) east of Chetumal, Mexico. The depression intensified into Tropical Storm Karl six hours later and continued to strengthen until moving ashore near Rio Huach, Mexico, with winds of 65 mph (105 km/h) at 12:45 UTC on September 15.


2010 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Karl
Although the storm's winds diminished over land, the structure of the storm actually improved, allowing Karl to quickly become a hurricane by 18:00 UTC on September 16 once emerging over the Bay of Campeche. A period of rapid deepening brought the cyclone to its peak of 125 mph (200 km/h) early on September 17, the only major hurricane on record in the Bay of Campeche. Increasing shear and dry air entrainment caused Karl to weaken slightly, but it retained winds of 115 mph (185 km/h) while making landfall just north of Veracruz, Mexico by 16:45 UTC on September 17. The system weakened rapidly over the mountainous terrain of Mexico, falling to tropical storm intensity by 00:00 UTC on September 18, weakening to a tropical depression six hours later, and dissipating about 85 mi (135 km) southeast of Veracruz by 12:00 UTC.


2010 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Karl
Throughout Quintana Roo, heavy rains from Karl resulted in scattered flooding which forced hundreds of families from their homes. More than 600 houses were destroyed in the city of Chetumal as a result of flooding and landslides. At the height of the storm, a total of 54,265 residents were without power; however, most had their electricity restored within a day. Thousands of hectares of crops were lost. Upon making landfall in Veracruz, Karl caused widespread heavy rainfall, peaking at 17.83 in (452.9 mm) in Misantla, Mexico.


2010 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Karl
Strong winds uprooted hundreds of thousands of trees and downed power lines, leaving up to 280,000 residents in the dark. More than 200,000 homes were damaged or destroyed across the states of Veracruz, Tabasco, and Oaxaca. A total of 22 people were killed by the storm, and the damage cost totaled to approximately $3.9 billion.


2010 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Lisa
Following a sequence of Cape Verde hurricanes, another tropical wave moved off the coast of Africa on September 16. A broad area of low pressure developed in association with the wave as it passed southwest of Cape Verde. By 18:00 UTC on September 20, the wave developed into a tropical depression about 460 mi (740 km) southwest of Cape Verde. An unusually weak subtropical ridge steered the system north, east, and then north again over subsequent days.


2010 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Lisa
The depression intensified into Tropical Storm Lisa six hours after formation, but fell back to tropical depression intensity by 18:00 UTC on September 22 as dry air entered the circulation. A more favorable environment allowed Lisa to re-attain tropical storm status by 12:00 UTC the following day and subsequently begin a period of rapid intensification. The small cyclone reached hurricane intensity by 21:00 UTC on September 24 and attained peak winds of 85 mph (135 km/h) six hours later.


2010 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Lisa
Progressively cooler waters and stronger shear caused Lisa to weaken to a tropical storm early on September 25, weaken to a tropical depression early on September 26, and degenerate into a remnant low at 18:00 UTC that day. The remnant low moved northwest and north, dissipating by 06:00 UTC on September 29 about 595 mi (960 km) south-southwest of the Azores.


2010 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Matthew
The same tropical wave that led to the formation of Julia moved off the western coast of Africa on September 11, leading to the development of a tropical depression by 12:00 UTC on September 23 about 565 mi (910 km) east of Cabo Gracias a Dios.


2010 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Matthew
Steered west to west-northwest by a subtropical ridge to its north, the depression steadily organized, intensifying into Tropical Storm Matthew six hours after formation and attaining peak winds of 60 mph (95 km/h) by 18:00 UTC on September 23, an intensity it maintained while making just south of Cabo Gracias a Dios an hour later. The system briefly emerged into the Gulf of Honduras on September 25 before making a second landfall north-northeast of Monkey River Town, Belize, with winds of 40 mph (65 km/h) around 15:00 UTC. The system weakened quickly once inland, falling to a tropical depression by 18:00 UTC and degenerating into a remnant low by 12:00 UTC on September 26. The remnant low turned southwest and dissipated twelve hours later.


2010 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Matthew
The precursor wave to Matthew produced heavy rainfall across portions of Venezuela, destroying several homes and leading to eight fatalities. Impacts extended across Central America, especially in Nicaragua where 70 people were killed. Bridges were collapsed, roads were destroyed, communication lines were downed, and up to 255 communities were affected by the storm there. Similar but less severe damage was observed in Honduras, where four people were killed, and in El Salvador, where one person died. Widespread rainfall totals of 10 in (250 mm) were recorded across Veracruz, peaking at 16.73 in (424.9 mm) in Acayucan. The combined impacts of Hurricane Karl and Tropical Storm Matthew in the state cost up to $8 billion. Flooding from Matthew further inland in Mexico, which was already observing one of its wettest years on record, led to a landslide in Santa María Tlahuitoltepec that killed seven people.


2010 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Nicole
The remnants of Matthew combined with a broad area of low pressure over the northwestern Caribbean to form Tropical Storm Nicole by 12:00 UTC on September 28, about 75 mi (120 km) south of the Isle of Youth, Cuba. Affected by strong westerly shear, Nicole never inherited a traditional appearance on satellite imagery; instead, it was characterized by an ill-defined circulation west of most convection, with the strongest winds well displaced from the center.


2010 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Nicole
The cyclone attained peak winds of 45 mph (70 km/h) shortly after formation, but its center of circulation became increasingly diffuse as Nicole tracked toward the Cuba coastline, leading to degeneration into a remnant low by 15:00 UTC on September 29. The low moved north-northeast into the Bahamas, where it became extratropical and quickly weakened to a trough on September 30.


2010 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Nicole
Nicole produced a tremendous amount of rain in Jamaica, totaling to 37.42 in (950.5 mm) in Belleisle. Severe flooding and landslides affected up to 507,831 residents, resulting 16 deaths and 42 injuries. Flooded roadways isolated communities, trapping hundreds of people in their homes. Over 288,000 residences lost power, over 40 percent of the island's water supply systems were inoperable at one point, and dozens of bridges collapsed. Infrastructure damage totaled to $235.4 million, while property damage reached $3.2 million and agricultural damage amounted to $6.8 million.


2010 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Nicole
In nearby Cuba, rainfall reached 9.22 in (234 mm) and winds gusted to 53 mph (85 km/h); houses were flooded, crops were damaged, and livestock was killed as a result. Similar impacts occurred across the Cayman Islands, with sporadic power outages, flooding in low-lying locations, and damaged houses. While the remnants of Nicole produced only minor impacts across Florida, mainly in the form of street flooding, impacts were much more severe across the Mid-Atlantic as the system combined with a large area of low pressure across the region. Record-breaking rainfall, accumulating to 22.54 in (572.5 mm) in Wilmington, North Carolina, closed over 150 roadways, knocked out power, and caused traffic accidents.


2010 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Otto
A tropical wave departed the western coast of Africa on September 26, becoming entangled with an upper-level trough to form a subtropical depression by 06:00 UTC on October 6, about 265 mi (425 km) north-northwest of San Juan, Puerto Rico. The depression recurved sharply northeast and quickly strengthened into Subtropical Storm Otto six hours after formation. On October 7, Otto completed transition into a fully tropical cyclone as deep convection formed over its center, despite weakening during the process.


2010 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Otto
The system further intensified into a hurricane by 12:00 UTC on October 8 and attained peak winds of 85 mph (135 km/h) twelve hours later. An abrupt increase in wind shear caused Otto to weaken as it accelerated northeast; it fell to tropical storm intensity by 00:00 UTC on October 10 and transitioned into an extratropical cyclone six hours later while positioned about 1,035 mi (1,665 km) east-northeast of Bermuda. The extratropical cyclone persisted for several days, eventually becoming a non-convective swirl early on October 14 and dissipating by 00:00 UTC on October 18.


2010 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Otto
Otto and its precursor disturbance brought several days of rainfall and gusty winds to the Greater Antilles. In St. Lucia, 400 houses were severely flooded or destroyed, access to water was cut off, and power outages were observed. Storm impacts in Saint Kitts and Nevis flooded homes, caused minor beach erosion, topped bridges, washed out roads, and caused severe disruption to electrical services. Throughout the U.S. Virgin Islands, monthly rainfall records were shattered, with 21.52 in (546.6 mm) in Red Hook. Flooding and landslides on surrounding islands closed roads and highways.


2010 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Otto
Across the British Virgin Islands, the worst flooding in the nation's history—with precipitation amounts up to 24.98 in (634.5 mm)—overturned cars, damaged drainage pipes and utility lines, and left residents without water. Widespread flooding across Puerto Rico affected at least 295 roads, including at least 14 that were severely damaged, and impacted crops. Landslides and downed utility poles isolated communities, waters supplies were contaminated, and numerous people required rescuing.


2010 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Paula
The complex interaction between a cold front, multiple tropical waves, and a broad area of low pressure in the wake of Nicole led to the formation of a tropical depression by 00:00 UTC on October 11 about 115 mi (185 km) southeast of Cabo Gracias a Dios. The nascent cyclone intensified into Tropical Storm Paula six hours later, briefly moving ashore the northeastern tip of Honduras early on October 11 before re-emerging into the northwestern Caribbean.


2010 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Paula
Amid a favorable environment, Paula intensified into a hurricane by 00:00 UTC on October 12 and attained peak winds of 105 mph (170 km/h) at 18:00 UTC while maintaining an unusually small size. An increase in shear prompted a steady weakening trend as the system turned north and then east. Paula fell to tropical storm intensity early on October 14, making landfall between Santa Lucia and Puerto Esperanza with winds of 65 mph (105 km/h). The system further weakened to a tropical depression early on October 15 and degenerated into a remnant low by 12:00 UTC. The remnant low quickly became diffuse, dissipating at 18:00 UTC.


2010 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Paula
In northeastern Honduras, low-lying areas were evacuated and numerous homes were destroyed. Rainfall peaked at 7.9 in (200 mm), resulting in widespread flooding. Waves up to 7 ft (2.1 m) affected the coastline. An American tourist drowned off Cozumel after succumbing to rough seas. Only very minor impacts were observed along the northeastern coastline of the Yucatán Peninsula. The outer bands of Paula affected Cuba, where rainfall peaked at 7.32 in (186 mm) and winds reached 68 mph (109 km/h). The strong winds downed many trees, blocking roadways, and damaged the roofs of several homes. The rain, however, was regarded as generally beneficial to crops and low reservoirs. Rough seas removed concrete from Havana's sea wall and submerged coastal streets under 1–2 ft (0.3–0.61 m) of water.


2010 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Richard
An area of disturbed weather within a persistent, broad trough across the southwestern Caribbean organized into the nineteenth tropical depression of the season by 06:00 UTC on October 20 about 195 mi (315 km) north of Cabo Gracias a Dios. The depression was slow to organize at first, affected by dry air and moderate shear from a trough over the Southeast United States and western Atlantic, but eventually strengthened into Tropical Storm Richard by 12:00 UTC on October 21 as it curved south and then west.


2010 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Richard
Upper-level winds slackened over subsequent days, allowing the cyclone to attain hurricane intensity early on October 24 and reach peak winds of 100 mph (160 km/h) by 00:00 UTC the next day. Richard moved ashore near Gales Point, Belize, thirty minutes later. The system weakened rapidly once inland, degenerating into a remnant low by 00:00 UTC on October 26. Despite emerging over the Bay of Campeche, high wind shear prevented redevelopment and instead caused the feature to dissipate eighteen hours later.


2010 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Richard
Although Richard tracked north of Honduras, strong winds along the coastline downed trees and power lines. Mudslides stranded up to 15,000 people across 40 different towns. The island of Roatán received a gust of 58 mph (93 km/h). Farther north and west in Belize, the Belize Zoo and Tropical Education Center—popular attractions for tourists—were heavily damaged. About 80% of the grapefruit and nearly 25% of the orange crop were lost there. Two deaths were observed: one man was killed when his boat capsized in rough seas, while a second man was mauled to death by a jaguar that escaped after a tree mangled its cage. The damage cost topped $80 million.


2010 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Shary
A broad area of low pressure formed at the tail-end of a stationary front, organizing into a tropical depression by 18:00 UTC on October 28 about 520 mi (835 km) south-southeast of Bermuda. Steered west-northwest and then sharply northeast ahead of an approaching cold front, the system intensified into Tropical Storm Shary six hours after formation. Within an environment of low wind shear, Shary strengthened into a hurricane and attained peak winds of 75 mph (120 km/h) by 00:00 UTC on October 30 as an eye became apparent on microwave imagery.


2010 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Shary
The storm became increasingly asymmetric as it interacted with the front, and Shary transitioned into an extratropical cyclone by 18:00 UTC that day. The extratropical system was completely absorbed by the front six hours later. Since Shary remained south and east of Bermuda, its effects were limited to 0.54 in (13.7 mm) of rainfall and a gust to 35 mph (55 km/h).


2010 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Tomas
The final tropical cyclone of the 2010 season developed from a tropical wave that moved off Africa on October 24. The wave pushed west, organizing into a tropical depression by 06:00 UTC on October 29 and into Tropical Storm Tomas six hours later while located a few hundred miles east of Barbados. The cyclone turned northwest after formation while continuing to intensify, moving over Barbados by 09:00 UTC on October 30 with winds of 70 mph (115 km/h); as such, Tomas became the latest storm in a calendar year to strike the Windward Islands.


2010 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Tomas
The system reached hurricane intensity three hours later, and by 20:00 UTC, attained its peak winds of 100 mph (160 km/h) while moving across St. Lucia. After moving into the Caribbean, a sharp increase in wind shear and dry air entrainment caused Tomas to dramatically weaken, and the storm fell to a tropical depression by 00:00 UTC on November 3. Fluctuating atmospheric conditions allowed Tomas to strengthen and oscillate between a tropical storm and hurricane as it curved through the Windward Passage and into the Atlantic. By 00:00 UTC on November 8, the cyclone succumbed to an increasingly unfavorable regime and became an extratropical cyclone. The storm rotated around a broader low in the western Atlantic before being absorbed by a larger extratropical low south of Newfoundland early on November 11.


2010 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Tomas
Impacts throughout the Windward Islands were substantial, but most heavily concentrated in St. Lucia. There, gusts reached 69 mph (111 km/h), toppling trees and power lines. Torrential rainfall up to 26.3 in (668 mm) created mudslides and landslides that damaged or destroyed numerous structures, bridges, and vehicles. Most of the island's plantain and banana crops were destroyed. Up to 14 people were killed. Farther west in Curaçao, Tomas led to the most prolific rain event in four decades.


2010 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Tomas
An elderly man was killed after suffering a heart attack and drowning in his flooded vehicle, while a rescue worker died after a hospital wall collapsed. In Haiti, already ravaged by a catastrophic 7.0 MW earthquake less than a year prior, heavy rainfall flooded a refugee camp and triggered mudslides that destroyed homes and roads. Up to 35 people were killed there, though it was feared many more could die as Tomas exacerbated an already-deadly cholera outbreak.


2010 Atlantic hurricane season, Storm names
The following list of names was used for named storms that formed in the North Atlantic during 2010. The names not retired from this list were used again in the 2016 season. This was the same list used in the 2004 season with the exceptions of Colin, Fiona, Igor, and Julia, which replaced Charley, Frances, Ivan, and Jeanne, respectively. The names Colin, Fiona, Igor, Julia, Paula, Richard, Shary, and Tomas were used for the first time this year (and only, in the cases of Igor and Tomas).


2010 Atlantic hurricane season, Storm names, Retirement
On March 16, 2011, at the 33rd Session of the RA IV hurricane committee, the World Meteorological Organization retired the names Igor and Tomas from its rotating name lists due to the number of deaths and damage they caused, and they will not be used again for another Atlantic hurricane. They were replaced with Ian & Tobias, respectively, for the 2016 Atlantic hurricane season.


2010 Atlantic hurricane season, Season effects
This is a table of the storms and their effects in the 2010 Atlantic hurricane season. This table includes the storm's names, duration, peak intensity, Areas affected (bold indicates made landfall in that region at least once), damages, and death totals. Deaths in parentheses are additional and indirect (an example of an indirect death would be a traffic accident), but are still storm-related. Damage and deaths include totals while the storm was extratropical, a wave or a low. All of the damage figures are in 2010 USD (the listed damage figure is in millions).


2010 Auburn Tigers football team
The 2010 Auburn Tigers football team represented Auburn University in the 2010 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Tigers, led by second-year head coach Gene Chizik were members of the Western Division of the Southeastern Conference and played their home games at Jordan–Hare Stadium. The Tigers completed a 12–0 regular season record and defeated South Carolina in the 2010 SEC Championship Game.


2010 Auburn Tigers football team
On January 10, 2011, Auburn defeated Oregon in the BCS National Championship Game in Glendale, Arizona, 22–19, to win the second consensus national championship in school history.


2010 Auburn Tigers football team
The Tigers were led on offense by junior quarterback Cam Newton, who became the third Auburn player to win the Heisman Trophy, distinguishing him as the best player in college football. Newton led the nation in touchdowns responsible for, finishing with 30 passing touchdowns, 20 rushing touchdowns, and one receiving touchdown for a total of 51. He also led the Southeastern Conference in total yards and passing efficiency rating. Newton declared for the NFL draft following the season, and was drafted 1st overall in 2011.


2010 Auburn Tigers football team, Defensive and offensive strategies
In the second year of the Chizik era of Auburn football, offensive coordinator Gus Malzahn continued use of his no-huddle hurry-up schemes. This offense relies on an attacking ground game from different spread sets, using fakes and misdirection, to set up a play action passing attack through the air, while snapping the ball almost as soon as it is placed to give the defense less time to react to different looks. Defensive coordinator Ted Roof's efforts were aided by replenished depth at the linebacker and secondary positions, utilizing a collection of the 3–4 and 4–3 defensive formations, also known as Multiple D strategy.


2010 Auburn Tigers football team, Defensive and offensive strategies
Eventual Heisman Trophy winning quarterback Cam Newton led the Tiger offense to a 13–0 record, SEC Championship, and a berth in the BCS Championship game, which was played on January 10, 2011. Auburn led the SEC in scoring offense, total offense, rushing offense, pass efficiency, first downs and first down conversions. Defensively the Tigers were improved from 2009 but less impressive than on offense, ranking in the lower half of the SEC for most defensive categories. However, the Tiger defense was notably improved in the second halves of its 2010 games, allowing an average of only 3.7 fourth-quarter points and shutting out five opponents (Mississippi State, South Carolina, Louisiana-Monroe, Georgia and Alabama) in the final period.


2010 Auburn Tigers football team, Personnel, Game summaries, Arkansas State
Auburn came into the season against an Arkansas State team ready to show off their new spread offense. Although Auburn only surrendered 43 yards on the ground, a total of 366 yards offensively were given up by a soft Auburn defense. Arkansas State quarterback Ryan Aplin threw for 278 yards while completing 28 of 42 passes. However, Auburn's offense shined despite very basic playcalling. New quarterback Cam Newton set a school record for quarterbacks running the ball with 171 yards on the ground, as well as 186 yards passing, while completing 9 of 14 passes. Also, true freshman running back Michael Dyer ran 14 times for 95 yards in an impressive college debut.


2010 Auburn Tigers football team, Personnel, Game summaries, Mississippi State
Auburn traveled to Starkville to kick off the SEC season with a Thursday night tilt with the Bulldogs. In a back-and-forth game, the Tigers pulled out a 17–14 victory when State's late attempt to tie or perhaps win the game failed. Cam Newton followed up his debut by going 11/19 for 138 yards and two passing TDs. He also showed off his running ability once again by gaining 70 yards on the ground on 18 carries. Newton was Auburn's leading rusher for the second straight week. Sophomore Onterio McCalebb added 68 yards for the Tigers.


2010 Auburn Tigers football team, Personnel, Game summaries, Mississippi State
The Auburn defense looked much improved from their week one game with Arkansas State and kept the Bulldogs in check most of the night. DT Nick Fairley led the charge on defense. He recovered a fumble, intercepted a pass, and had 1 ½ sacks. Fairley was rewarded for his performance by being named SEC Defensive Player of the Week.


2010 Auburn Tigers football team, Personnel, Game summaries, Clemson
It was a battle of the Tigers at Jordan–Hare Stadium as Auburn hosted Clemson. This game was the site of ESPN's College GameDay and lived up to the hype. Early it looked as if Clemson was going to blow Auburn out of its own building as the visiting Tigers stormed out to a 17–0 lead. Auburn rallied to get a FG before half time and then showed no ill effects of the 1st half in scoring three 3rd-quarter touchdowns to take a 24–17 lead. Clemson rallied for a TD of their own and this game ended up going to overtime.


2010 Auburn Tigers football team, Personnel, Game summaries, Clemson
Auburn managed only a FG on their OT possession and it looked as if Clemson had tied the game with a FG of their own, but a procedure penalty ended up costing the visiting Tigers big time. Clemson missed the second FG attempt and Auburn had survived another heart stopping game, 27–24. Cam Newton bounced back after a horrible first half and finished the night 7/14 for 203 yards with 2 TD's and 2 INT's. Onterio McCalebb was big in the running game again for Auburn, gaining 81 yards on 10 carries. Freshman Michael Dyer added 69 yards on 16 carries. Darvin Adams finally had a breakout game, catching 5 balls for 118 yards and a TD. Philip Lutzenkirchen and Terrell Zachery caught the other TDs, with Zachery's on a long 78-yard pass play.


2010 Auburn Tigers football team, Personnel, Game summaries, South Carolina
For the third straight week, the Auburn Tigers had a game go down to the wire; and for the third straight week, the Tigers came out on the right side of a close battle. The Tigers improved to 4–0, notching their 700th win all-time, after defeating the South Carolina Gamecocks. Cam Newton proved once again just how special a player he is by accounting for all five Auburn TD's. Newton threw for 2 and ran for the other 3 while accounting for 334 yards of total offense. Freshman Michael Dyer gained 100 yards on 23 carries.


2010 Auburn Tigers football team, Personnel, Game summaries, South Carolina
Stephen Garcia played well but two fumbles led to Steve Spurrier pulling Garcia in favor of freshman Connor Shaw. Shaw threw INT's on each of his possessions and the Tigers once again survived. The Auburn defense played better against the run, but South Carolina still threw the ball pretty much at will. Alshon Jeffery had 8 catches for 192 yards and 2 TD's.


2010 Auburn Tigers football team, Personnel, Game summaries, Louisiana–Monroe
Auburn scored 31 points on their first five possessions of the game en route to an easy victory over the Warhawks of Louisiana–Monroe. The Tigers went ahead 7–0 on their second play from scrimmage on a 50-yard touchdown run by sophomore tailback Onterrio McCalebb and the ensuing PAT by Wes Byrum. Junior quarterback Cam Newton connected on 94-yard pass touchdown pass completion to wide receiver Emory Blake on the Tigers' fourth play from scrimmage, making the score 14–0 with 10:22 remaining in the opening period, and the rout was on.


2010 Auburn Tigers football team, Personnel, Game summaries, Louisiana–Monroe
Unlike the previous four games, Newton had no rushing attempts except for a 4-yard loss on a quarterback sack, but he completed 14 of 19 passes for 249 yards. Mario Fannin led the Tigers' rushing attack with 89 yards on 10 attempts. The Tigers offense totalled 505 yards as they improved their record to 5–0.


2010 Auburn Tigers football team, Personnel, Game summaries, Kentucky
Senior kicker Wes Byrum connected on a 24-yard field goal as time expired to cap a 37–34 victory over the homestanding Kentucky Wildcats. The Tigers offensive attack was once again led by quarterback Cam Newton, who scored four touchdowns in the first half to lead Auburn to a 31–17 halftime lead. Newton contributed 408 yards of offense to the Tigers' attack. He rushed for 198 yards on 28 carries, and completed 13 of 21 passing attempts for 210 yards.


2010 Auburn Tigers football team, Personnel, Game summaries, Kentucky
The Wildcats' attacks was led by quarterback Mike Hartline, who completed 23 out of 28 passing attempts for 220 yards, and senior running back Randall Cobb, who rushed for 47 yards, caught seven passes for 68 yards, and threw a 6-yard touchdown pass of his own to freshman tight end Jordan Autmiller. The Tigers' victory avenged a 21–14 defeat they suffered against the Wildcats in 2009—the Wildcats' first victory over Auburn since 1966. With the victory, the Tigers improved their record to 6–0 overall, and 3–0 in the Southeastern Conference, where they moved to a half-game behind Western Division leader LSU. Kentucky fell to 3–3 overall, and 0–3 in the SEC Eastern division.


2010 Auburn Tigers football team, Personnel, Game summaries, Arkansas
Arkansas and Auburn combined for 1036 yards of total offense and 108 points in the highest scoring non-overtime game between two conference opponents in SEC history as the Tigers defeated the Razorbacks. The Tigers were once again led on offense by quarterback Cam Newton, who rushed for 188 yards and completed 10 of 14 passes for 140 yards. The much-anticipated duel between Newton and Razorbacks' quarterback Ryan Mallett failed to materialize when Mallett left the game in the 2nd quarter because of a concussion. Mallett was replaced by sophomore backup Tyler Wilson, who completed 25 of 34 passes for 332 yards and four touchdowns. Before Mallett left the game he completed 10 of 15 passes for 95 yards and one touchdown.


2010 Auburn Tigers football team, Personnel, Game summaries, Arkansas
The Razorbacks took an early 7–0 lead on 7-yard touchdown pass from Mallett to Van Stumon, but barely two minutes later the Tigers tied the game on 5-yard rushing touchdown by Newton. The two teams combined for 34 points in the second quarter. Auburn scored two touchdowns, one on a 4-yard run by Mario Fannin and the other on 13-yard run by Onterrio McCalebb. Wes Byrum kicked two field goals in the period, including a 26-yarder on the first half's final play to give the Tigers a 27–21 lead.


2010 Auburn Tigers football team, Personnel, Game summaries, Arkansas
Wilson, the Razorbacks' back-up quarterback, connected on touchdown passes of 37 and 24 yards in the third quarter, while Byrum kicked a 28-yard field goal and Newton rushed for a 1-yard touchdown, making the score 37–35 in favor of Auburn at the end of the 3rd quarter. Newton's touchdown was set up by a 99-yard kick-off return by McCalebb.


2010 Auburn Tigers football team, Personnel, Game summaries, Arkansas
Arkansas went ahead 43–37 less than a minute into the fourth quarter, but Auburn went ahead for good when Newton completed a 15-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Emory Blake with 11:44 left in the game, making the score 44–43. The Tigers' defense was responsible for their final three touchdowns. Zac Ethridge returned an Arkansas fumble 47 yards for a touchdown. On Arkansas' next possession, linebacker Josh Bynes intercepted a Tyler Wilson pass and returned it to the Arkansas 7-yard line. Two plays later, Newton scored on a three-yard rush, making the score 58–43. Three plays later, Bynes intercepted another pass by Wilson. The Tigers wrapped up the scoring on a 38-yard run by freshman running back Michael Dyer.


2010 Auburn Tigers football team, Personnel, Game summaries, LSU
Onterrio McCalebb scored a touchdown on a 70-yard run with 5:05 remaining in the game to give Auburn a 24–17 victory over LSU. The Tigers gained 526 yards on offense against the vaunted LSU defense, including 440 yards rushing. Cam Newton scored two touchdowns and rushed for 217 yards and two touchdowns, while Michael Dyer rushed for 100 yards. The Auburn defense, who gave up 566 yards against Arkansas the previous week, held the Bayou Bengals to just 243 yards on offense.


2010 Auburn Tigers football team, Personnel, Game summaries, LSU
Newton's 217 rushing yards enabled him to eclipse the SEC record for most rushing yards by a quarterback, set by Auburn's Jimmy Sidle in 1963.


2010 Auburn Tigers football team, Personnel, Game summaries, Ole Miss
Cam Newton was held to only 45 rushing yards on 11 attempts, but he threw for 209 yards and caught a 20-yard touchdown pass from Kodi Burns as Auburn easily defeated Ole Miss 51–31. Freshman tailback Mike Dyer ran for 180 yards and one touchdown and Onterrio McCalebb ran for another 99 yards, including a 68-yard touchdown run as the Tigers improved their record to 9–0 overall and 6–0 in SEC play.


2010 Auburn Tigers football team, Personnel, Game summaries, Ole Miss
The Tigers, ranked #1 in the BCS standings for the first time ever and carrying their first #1 ranking in a major poll since 1985, scored more points against the Rebels than they had in any of their 34 previous meetings. The win also ended a three-week streak that saw the #1 ranked team in either the wire service polls or the BCS standings lose on the road.


2010 Auburn Tigers football team, Personnel, Game summaries, Chattanooga
Auburn scored 48 points in the first half—one point short of the school record—to coast to an easy Homecoming victory over Chattanooga. Quarterback Cam Newton passed for a career-best 317 yards and threw four touchdown passes, all before halftime as the Tigers improved their record to 10–0.


2010 Auburn Tigers football team, Personnel, Game summaries, Chattanooga
Auburn totaled 624 yards on offense in defeating the FCS Mocs for the 21st time in as many meetings between the two schools in a series that was first contested in 1925. The Tigers' rushing attack was led by Mario Fannin, who gained 96 yards on 12 carries, and Michael Dyer, who gained 76 yards on just four carries.


2010 Auburn Tigers football team, Personnel, Game summaries, Georgia
In the 114th renewal of the Deep South’s Oldest Rivalry, Auburn defeated Georgia 49–31. The Bulldogs led 21–7 at the end of the first quarter thanks to three touchdown passes by redshirt freshman quarterback Aaron Murray, but Auburn fought back to tie the game at 21–21 on an 18-yard touchdown pass from Cam Newton to tight end Philip Lutzenkirchen with 51 seconds remaining in the first half.


2010 Auburn Tigers football team, Personnel, Game summaries, Georgia
The Tigers began the third quarter by recovering an onsides kick. Senior kicker Wes Byrum recovered his own kick at the Auburn 41-yard line. Nine plays later, Onterrio McCalebb rushed two yards for a touchdown, and Auburn went ahead 28–21. It was the first time Auburn had led in the game since the Bulldogs tied the game near the midway point of the first quarter. Auburn’s lead was short-lived, as the Bulldogs tied the game at 28–28 six plays later on seven-yard run by Washaun Ealey.


2010 Auburn Tigers football team, Personnel, Game summaries, Georgia
The Tigers went ahead for good on the ensuing drive. The Tigers began at their own 19-yard line, and on the first play from scrimmage, McCalebb rushed for 48 yards to the Georgia 33-yard line. Four successive runs by freshman tailback Michael Dyer and a one-yard run by Newton gave the Tigers a first and goal opportunity at the Bulldogs 4-yard line. McCalebb scored his third touchdown of the day, and the Tigers went ahead 35–31. The Bulldogs finished their scoring for the day on 28-yard field goal on the final play of the third quarter, but the Tigers added two more touchdowns in the fourth quarter.


2010 Auburn Tigers football team, Personnel, Game summaries, Georgia
As it had been throughout much of the season, the Auburn offense was led by quarterback Cam Newton. He passed for 148 yards and rushed for 151 yards. The Tigers’ victory ended a four-game losing streak against the Bulldogs.


2010 Auburn Tigers football team, Personnel, Game summaries, Alabama
Down 0–24 in the second quarter, Auburn rallied to defeat Alabama 28–27 in the 75th edition of the Iron Bowl at Bryant–Denny Stadium. Quarterback Cam Newton threw for three touchdown passes and rushed for another touchdown in the biggest comeback in Auburn football history.


2010 Auburn Tigers football team, Personnel, Game summaries, Alabama
Alabama, the 2009 BCS National Champion, came into the game with a 9–2 record. The Crimson Tide went ahead 7–0 with 11:34 to go in the first quarter on a 9-yard touchdown rush by Mark Ingram, the 2009 Heisman Trophy winner. Auburn was forced to punt the ball back to Alabama after three plays, and the host team took possession at their own 19-yard line. Two plays later, senior quarterback Greg McElroy completed a 68-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Julio Jones, and the Crimson Tide led 14–0 less than seven minutes into the game. Alabama added to their lead when McElroy completed his second touchdown pass of the first quarter, this time a 12-yard pass to Darius Hanks, and they led 21–0 with 1:53 remaining in the first quarter.


2010 Auburn Tigers football team, Personnel, Game summaries, Alabama
Early in the second quarter, the Crimson Tide threatened to score again, but Auburn's Antione Carter forced Mark Ingram to fumble the ball away as Ingram was running towards an apparent touchdown. The ball rolled towards the Auburn endzone, and the Tigers' Demond Washington recovered it in the endzone for a touchback, but the Tigers' offense could not move the ball. Alabama went back on offense, but their drive stalled out at the Auburn 3-yard line. After Jeremy Shelley's 20-yard field goal, the Crimson Tide lead 24–0 midway through the second quarter. The Tigers' offense finally got on track, and Cam Newton completed a 36-yard touchdown pass to Emory Blake, cutting the Tide's lead to 24–7 at halftime.


2010 Auburn Tigers football team, Personnel, Game summaries, Alabama
On Auburn's second play from scrimmage to begin the third quarter, Newton completed a 70-yard touchdown pass to Terrell Zachery, making the score 24–14 just 56 seconds into the second half. The Tigers pulled to within three points with 4:25 remaining in the third quarter when Newton rushed for a 1-yard touchdown. Alabama's final scoring play of the day was a 32-yard field goal by Shelley, making the score 27–21.


2010 Auburn Tigers football team, Personnel, Game summaries, Alabama
The Tigers went ahead with 11:48 remaining in the game. Newton threw a 7-yard touchdown pass to tight end Philip Lutzenkirchen. Never in Auburn's football history had the Tigers come back from a 24-point deficit to win a game, and never had Alabama led in a game by 24 points and lost a game.


2010 Auburn Tigers football team, Personnel, Game summaries, Alabama
The CBS telecast of this game earned a 7.5 rating, the highest for any game of the 2010 college football season through week 13.


2010 Auburn Tigers football team, Personnel, Game summaries, South Carolina (SEC Championship Game)
Auburn defeated South Carolina in the SEC Championship game by a score of 56 to 17. This was the most points scored in the history of the championship game and the largest margin of victory.


2010 Auburn Tigers football team, Personnel, Game summaries, South Carolina (SEC Championship Game)
As it had been through the previous twelve games of the season, the Auburn offense was led by quarterback Cam Newton, who threw for a career-best 335 yards. Newton threw four touchdown passes and ran for two more touchdowns as the Tigers tied the school record for most wins in a season with their 13th victory. The Tigers went ahead on just their fourth play from scrimmage, a 12-yard pass from Newton to Onterrio McCalebb. The highlight of the opening drive was a 62-yard pass from Newton to Darvin Adams. The Gamecocks came back to tie the game on a 25-yard touchdown pass from Stephen Garcia to Patrick DiMarco. However, Auburn scored on their next two possessions to lead 21–7 at the end of the first quarter.


2010 Auburn Tigers football team, Personnel, Game summaries, South Carolina (SEC Championship Game)
There was no scoring in the second quarter until South Carolina cut the Auburn lead to 21–14 with 16 seconds remaining in the period. Garcia threw a 1-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Alshon Jeffery. The Tigers returned the ensuing kickoff to their own 41-yard line. On their first play Newton threw an 8-yard pass to Emory Blake, then Newton threw a Hail Mary pass towards the Gamecocks end zone that was deflected by a Carolina defender and caught by Adams for an improbable 51-yard touchdown pass on the last play of the first half, making the score 28–14.


2010 Auburn Tigers football team, Personnel, Game summaries, South Carolina (SEC Championship Game)
The Tigers scored two touchdowns in the third quarter. The first was on a 1-yard run by Newton with 7:56 remaining in the period. On the Gamecocks’ next possession, Auburn’s T’Sharvan Bell intercepted a Garcia pass and returned it 10 yards for a touchdown, making the score 42–14 in Auburn’s favor and essentially putting the game out of reach.


2010 Auburn Tigers football team, Personnel, Game summaries, South Carolina (SEC Championship Game)
The Tigers set several SEC Championship game offensive records in the victory. The 56 points easily eclipsed the previous mark held by the 1996 Florida team, who scored 45 points. Newton’s 408 total yards (335 passing, 73 rushing) was the most total yards gained by an individual, and Darvin Adams’ 217 receiving yards was also a record.


2010 Auburn Tigers football team, Personnel, Game summaries, Oregon (BCS National Championship Game)
This was the first meeting between the two schools. Coming into the game, Auburn had a 5–3 record against Pac-10 teams while Oregon was 4–4 against the SEC. The game was expected be a high-scoring shootout between two high-powered offenses, and while the teams combined for nearly 1,000 yards of total offense, both teams amassed their second-lowest point totals for the 2010 season.


2010 Auburn Tigers football team, Personnel, Game summaries, Oregon (BCS National Championship Game)
After a scoreless first quarter, Oregon went ahead 3–0 early in the second quarter on a 26-yard field goal by Rob Beard. On their next offensive possession, Auburn went ahead 7–3. Heisman Trophy winner Cam Newton completed a 35-yard touchdown pass to former quarterback Kodi Burns and a successful PAT kick by Wes Byrum with 12:00 remaining in the first half. Oregon quickly retook the lead, scoring on 8-yard touchdown pass from Darron Thomas to LaMichael James and a two-point conversion run by Beard, the kicker, making the score 11–7 in favor of the Ducks with 10:58 remaining in the first half.


2010 Auburn Tigers football team, Personnel, Game summaries, Oregon (BCS National Championship Game)
The Tigers cut the deficit to two points when Mike Blanc tackled James in the end zone for a safety with 3:26 remaining in the half, making the score 11–9. They took the lead on a 30-yard touchdown pass from Newton to Emory Blake with 1:47 left in the first half. Byrum's successful PAT made the score 16–11.


2010 Auburn Tigers football team, Personnel, Game summaries, Oregon (BCS National Championship Game)
The only score in the third quarter came on a 28-yard field goal by Byrum. Auburn held onto its eight-point lead until Oregon's LaMichael James caught a two-yard touchdown pass from Darron Thomas with 2:33 remaining in the fourth quarter and another successful two-point conversion tied the score at 19–19. Senior kicker Wes Byrum kicked a 19-yard field goal as time expired to give Auburn its first BCS National Championship, its second national championship officially recognized by Auburn.


2010 Auburn Tigers football team, Personnel, Game summaries, Oregon (BCS National Championship Game)
RB Michael Dyer and DT Nick Fairley were voted offensive and defensive most-valuable-player respectively.


2010 Auburn Tigers football team, NFL Draft
1st Round, 1st Overall Pick by the Carolina Panthers—Jr. QB Cam Newton


2010 Auburn Tigers football team, NFL Draft
1st Round, 13th Overall Pick by the Detroit Lions—Jr. DT Nick Fairley


2010 Auburn Tigers football team, NFL Draft
7th Round, 212th Overall Pick by the Tennessee Titans-Sr. DT Zach Clayton


2010 Auburn Tigers football team, NFL Draft
7th Round, 244th Overall Pick by the Carolina Panthers-Sr. OT Lee Ziemba


2010 Auckland Open (darts)
2010 Auckland Open was a darts tournament that took place in Auckland, New Zealand on 18 September 2010.


2010 Auckland Rugby League season
The 2010 Auckland Rugby League season was the 2010 season of senior rugby league in Auckland. The Auckland Rugby League ran the various competitions. The season commenced on 13 March, with the start of the Phelan Shield, and finished on 28 August with the three senior grand finals. This was the 101st season of the competition, which began in 1910.


2010 Auckland Rugby League season
The season followed the same format as 2009, with a qualification series in the first half of the year giving sixteen teams the opportunity to enter the Fox Memorial competition.


2010 Auckland Rugby League season, Fox Memorial Qualification Series
The Appliance Shed Fox Memorial Qualification Series involved sixteen teams divided into two pools, with the top eight teams entering the Fox Memorial competition. It started on 20 March and concluded on 2 May. The bottom eight teams instead entered the Sharman Cup.


2010 Auckland Rugby League season, Phelan Shield
The Mandron Masonry Phelan Shield began on 13 March and featured eleven teams. The Manukau Magpies were the 2009 champions, but in 2010 they were promoted into the Fox Memorial Qualifying series at the expense of the Hibiscus Coast Raiders. The Pukekohe Pythons also replaced the Waiheke Rams.


2010 Auckland Rugby League season, Phelan Shield
After finishing last in 2009 the Point Chevalier Pirates received the help of old boys Awen Guttenbeil and Stacey Jones who were able to attract some high-profile players to the club such as Wairangi Koopu, Monty Betham and Karl Te Nana. They went on to win the minor premiership in their 90th season, losing only two games in the round robin, before beating the Otara Scorpions 37–12 in the grand final.


2010 Auckland Rugby League season, Sharman Cup
The bottom eight teams in the Fox Memorial Qualification Series took part in the SAS Sharman Cup. The Howick Hornets were the defending champions but in 2010 they earned a place in the Fox Memorial. The Cup was won by the minor premiers, the East Coast Bays Barracudas, who defeated the Bay Roskill Vikings 34–4.


2010 Auckland Rugby League season, Fox Memorial
The top eight teams in the Fox Memorial Qualification Series took part in the Appliance Shed Fox Memorial. The Mt Albert Lions were the defending champions. Round One began with the Otahuhu Leopards and Northcote Tigers playing off for the Stormont Shield and Roope Rooster Challenge Trophy. Otahuhu won this contest and also finished the season as minor premiers to claim to Rukutai Shield.


2010 Auckland Rugby League season, Fox Memorial
Otahuhu defeated Mt Albert 22–18 in the grand final to claim the Fox Memorial.


2010 Auckland Rugby League season, Auckland Rugby League Referees Association
The ARL Referees Association celebrated 100 years in 2010 after being founded on 24 May 1910. The referees wore a special centenary strip to celebrate the year.


2010 Auckland Rugby League season, High school
St. Paul's College won the University Cup as first XIII champions. Tamaki College won the under 85 kg division while St Paul's College won the Graeme Lowe Cup for Under 15's.


2010 Auckland local elections
The 2010 Auckland local elections took place from 17 September until 9 October and were conducted by postal vote. The elections were the first since the merger of the seven councils and elected the new Auckland Council, composed of the mayor and 20 councillors, and 149 members of 21 local boards. It also elected 21 district health board members and 41 licensing trust members.


2010 Auckland local elections, Mayoral election
At the close of nominations at 12 noon of 20 August 2010, the following candidates had been nominated for mayor:


2010 Auckland local elections, Governing body elections
20 members were elected to governing body of the Auckland Council across thirteen wards using first-past-the-post.


2010 Auckland local elections, Governing body elections, Howick (2)
The ward was originally going to be called Te Irirangi, but this was changed after strong local opposition.


2010 Auckland local elections, Licensing Trust elections
In the 2010 Auckland licensing trust elections, forty-one members were elected to six licensing trusts across Auckland.


2010 Auckland mayoral election
The 2010 Auckland mayoral election, was part of the 2010 New Zealand local elections. It was the first election of a mayor for the enlarged Auckland Council, informally known as the "super-city". The election was won by sitting mayor of Manukau City Len Brown with 48.7% votes, over sitting mayor of Auckland City John Banks with 35.17% and first-time candidate Colin Craig with 8.73%. The sitting mayor of North Shore City Andrew Williams polled fourth and actor/director Simon Prast fifth.


2010 Auckland mayoral election
The election occurred on Saturday 9 October 2010, as per the Local Electoral Act 2001. Like the majority of New Zealand mayoral elections, the election was held by postal voting using the first-past-the-post system. It was the largest election of the 2010 local elections, with some 961,536 eligible voters (32.5% of all registered voters nationally) able to vote in the election.


2010 Auckland mayoral election, Candidates
Several candidates announced their intentions to run for mayor of Auckland before official nominations opened.


2010 Auckland mayoral election, Candidates
Nominations opened on 23 July 2010, and closed at 12 noon NZST (UTC+12) on 20 August 2010. At the close of nominations, 23 candidates had put their name forward.


2010 Auckland mayoral election, Opinion polls and campaigns
Mike Lee and Stephen Tindall did not stand for mayor (though Lee stood as a councillor) but they were included in several opinion polls on a "what if" basis only.


2010 Auckland mayoral election, Opinion polls and campaigns
Because Len Brown is generally associated with Labour, and John Banks with National, some analysts remarked that the election was likely to involve more party politics than usual in Auckland.


2010 Auckland mayoral election, Opinion polls and campaigns
The two front-running candidates Brown and Banks were estimated to have spent around $1 million each on their campaigns, most from bigger donors. It was commented that the fact that Banks' advertising concentrated too much on the old Auckland City area, missing out other parts of the new council areas, and especially the south, may have played a role in his poorer than expected showing.


2010 Auckland mayoral election, Results
a Relative to their percentage win in their respective cities in 2007. b Based on 20 August 2010 close of roll figure of 961,536 enrolled electors.


2010 Austin Aztex season
The Austin Aztex began their second season as a professional team by playing 4 preseason exhibition matches. The first two games were held as a home-home series against Major League Soccer's Houston Dynamo. They also played away games against the Laredo Heat and FC Dallas. Their lone home preseason game against Houston was their final match at Nelson Field. The Aztex now play their home matches at House Park a stadium located in downtown Austin.


2010 Austin Aztex season
On April 28, Austin hosted the Haitian national team. The match was part of a charity series of matches for the Haitians who played FC Dallas and Trinity University in San Antonio earlier in the month. The 4,132 fans who attended the Austin match donated $11,500 to help with the Haiti earthquake recovery effort. In total the series of matches raised over $22,000. The Austin match ended in a 0–0 tie.


2010 Austin Aztex season
On May 19, Austin played the Tampa Bay Rowdies in front of 6,051 fans, their largest home crowd in franchise history.


2010 Austin Aztex season
On August 24, Austin defeated the Carolina Railhawks 3–2. This victory gave the club their first playoff berth in team history.


2010 Austin Aztex season, Players, Current roster
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2010 Austin Aztex season, Schedule and results, Playoffs
By beating the Carolina Railhawks on August 24, the Aztex clinched a playoff spot for the first time in the team history. Although Austin ended the regular season with the second best record in the US second division, they were seeded third overall. They opened up their quarterfinal series on the road against the Montreal Impact on October 6, where they lost 2–0 in rainy conditions. The Aztex return to Austin for the second leg of the series on October 9, and lost 2–3. This gave Montreal the win in the series with an aggregate score of 5–2.


2010 Austin Aztex season, Stats
GP – games played,  Min – Minutes played,  G – Goals scored,  A – Assists,  S – Shots,  F – FoulsGAA – Goals Against Average, GA – Goals Against, W – Wins, L – Losses, T – Ties, CS – Clean Sheets


2010 Austin Peay Governors football team
The 2010 Austin Peay Governors football team represented Austin Peay State University in the 2010 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Governors were led by fourth-year head coach Rick Christophel and played their home games at Governors Stadium. They are a member of the Ohio Valley Conference. They finished the season 2–9, 1–7 in OVC play to finish in second-to-last place ahead of Tennessee State.


2010 Austin suicide attack
The 2010 Austin suicide attack occurred on Thursday, February 18, 2010, when Andrew Joseph Stack III deliberately crashed his single-engine Piper Dakota light aircraft into Building I of the Echelon office complex in Austin, Texas, United States, killing himself and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) manager Vernon Hunter. Thirteen others were injured, two severely. The four-story office building housed an IRS field office occupying the top three floors, along with a couple of private businesses on the first floor. Prior to the crash, Stack had posted a suicide note to his website, expressing his disillusionment with corporations and government agencies such as the IRS. Stack is also suspected of having set fire that morning to his two-story North Austin house, which was mostly destroyed.


2010 Austin suicide attack
In the aftermath, there was increased debate over the policies of the IRS, and different forms of protest. In response to the attack, the IRS spent more than $38.6 million, with $6.4 million spent to recover and resume work at the building, and over $32 million spent to increase security at other IRS sites in the U.S. However, the spending on security changes was questioned as being ineffective, as none of it would actually prevent airplanes from crashing into the buildings. The building was repaired by December 2011.


2010 Austin suicide attack, Joseph Stack
Andrew Joseph Stack III (August 31, 1956 - February 18, 2010) lived in the Scofield Farms neighborhood in North Austin, and worked as an embedded software consultant. He grew up in Pennsylvania and had two brothers and two sisters. Stack was orphaned at age four, and spent some time at a Catholic orphanage. He graduated from the Milton Hershey School in 1974 and studied engineering at Harrisburg Area Community College from 1975 to 1977, but did not graduate. His first marriage, to Ginger Stack, which ended in divorce, produced a daughter, Samantha Bell. In 2007, Stack married Sheryl Housh, who had a daughter from a previous marriage.


2010 Austin suicide attack, Joseph Stack
In 1985, Stack, along with his first wife, incorporated Prowess Engineering. In 1994, he failed to file a state tax return. In 1998, the Stacks divorced, and a year later his wife filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy, citing Federal tax liabilities totaling nearly $126,000. In 1995, Stack started Software Systems Service Corp, which was suspended in 2004 for non-payment of state taxes.


2010 Austin suicide attack, Joseph Stack
Stack obtained a pilot's certificate in 1994 and owned a Velocity Elite XL-RG plane, in addition to the Piper Dakota (aircraft registration N2889D) he flew into the Echelon building. He had been using the Georgetown Municipal Airport for four and a half years and paid $236.25 a month to rent a hangar. There has been speculation that Stack replaced seats on his aircraft with extra drums of fuel prior to the collision.


2010 Austin suicide attack, Joseph Stack
Stack's accountant confirmed that at the time of the incident, he was being audited by the Internal Revenue Service for failure to report income.


2010 Austin suicide attack, Events
About an hour before the crash, Stack allegedly set fire to his $230,000 house located on Dapplegrey Lane in North Austin. (The house was mostly destroyed in the fire.) He then drove to a hangar he rented at Georgetown Municipal Airport, approximately 20 miles to the north. He boarded his single-engine Piper Dakota airplane and took off around 9:45 a.m. Central Standard Time. He indicated to the control tower his flight would be "going southbound, sir." After taking off, his last words were "thanks for your help, have a great day."


2010 Austin suicide attack, Events
About ten minutes later, his plane descended and collided at full speed with Echelon I, a building containing offices for 190 IRS employees, resulting in a large fireball and explosion. The building is located near the intersection of Research Boulevard (U.S. Route 183) and Mopac Expressway (Loop 1).


2010 Austin suicide attack, Events, Suicide note
On the morning of the crash, Stack posted a suicide note on his website, embeddedart.com. The HTML source code of the web page shows the letter was composed using Microsoft Word starting two days prior, February 16, at 19:24Z (1:24 p.m. CST). The document also shows that it was saved 27 times with the last being February 18 at 06:42Z (12:42 a.m. CST).


2010 Austin suicide attack, Events, Suicide note
In the note, he begins by expressing displeasure with the government, the bailout of financial institutions, politicians, the conglomerate companies of General Motors, Enron and Arthur Andersen, unions, drug and health care insurance companies, and the Catholic Church.


2010 Austin suicide attack, Events, Suicide note
He then describes his life as an engineer, including his meeting with a poor widow who never got the pension benefits she was promised, the effect of Section 1706 of the Tax Reform Act of 1986 on independent contractor engineers, the September 11 attacks, airline bailouts that benefited only the airlines but not the suffering engineers, and how a CPA he hired seemed to side with the government to take extra tax money from him.


2010 Austin suicide attack, Events, Suicide note
The note also mentions Stack's having issues with taxes, debt, and the IRS and his having a long-running feud with the organization. While the IRS also has a larger regional office in Austin, the field office located in Echelon I performed tax audits, seizures, investigations and collections.


2010 Austin suicide attack, Events, Suicide note
I saw it written once that the definition of insanity is repeating the same process over and over and expecting the outcome to suddenly be different. I am finally ready to stop this insanity. Well, Mr. Big Brother IRS man, let's try something different; take my pound of flesh and sleep well.


2010 Austin suicide attack, Events, Suicide note
The communist creed: From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.


2010 Austin suicide attack, Events, Suicide note
The capitalist creed: From each according to his gullibility, to each according to his greed.


2010 Austin suicide attack, Aftermath
Vernon Hunter, a 68-year-old Revenue Officer Group Manager for the IRS, was killed in the incident along with Joseph Stack. Thirteen people were reported as injured, two of them critically. Debris from the crash reportedly struck a car being driven on the southbound access road of Route 183 in front of the building, shattering the windshield. Another driver on the southbound access road of Route 183 had his windows and sunroof shattered during the impact, and had debris fall inside his car, yet escaped uninjured.


2010 Austin suicide attack, Aftermath
Robin DeHaven, a glass worker and former combat engineer for the United States Army, saw the collision while commuting to a customer's house for his job, and used the extension ladder on his truck to rescue six people from the 2nd floor of the building. By coincidence, the Travis County Hazardous Materials Team — an inter-agency group of firefighters from outside the City of Austin — had just assembled for training across the freeway from the targeted building, observed the low and fast flight of Stack's plane, and heard the blast impact. They immediately responded, attacking the fire and initiating search-and-rescue. Several City of Austin fire engines for the area of the Echelon building were already deployed at the fire at Stack's home at the time of the impact.


2010 Austin suicide attack, Aftermath
Georgetown Municipal Airport was temporarily evacuated while a bomb disposal team searched Stack's abandoned vehicle.


2010 Austin suicide attack, Aftermath
An inspection into the Echelon building's structural integrity was concluded six days after the incident and a preliminary decision was made to repair the building rather than demolish it. Those repairs were substantially complete by December 2011.


2010 Austin suicide attack, Aftermath, Economic costs to IRS
The IRS spent more than $38.6 million because of the suicide attack.


2010 Austin suicide attack, Aftermath, Economic costs to IRS
For the immediate response, document recovery, and to resume operations at the center, the IRS spent USD $6,421,942. Of this amount, USD $3,258,213 was spent on document recovery.


2010 Austin suicide attack, Aftermath, Economic costs to IRS
Also, the IRS spent a total of USD $32.3 million to improve IRS building security across the United States, with USD $30.5 million for more security guards. The IRS said, because of the 2010 Austin terrorist attack and the emergency plans in place, there was no direct budgetary impact on the IRS's ability to provide taxpayer services or enforce tax laws.


2010 Austin suicide attack, Aftermath, Economic costs to IRS
An additional $1,236,634 was spent on a security risk assessment to be performed by the private Georgia based logistical and engineering services firm Unified Consultants Group, Inc. A July 25, 2012 audit, released shortly after the incident cost analysis, performed by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, determined that the contract was mismanaged by the IRS. The security-review process was determined to have had multiple problems, and many of the sites were not inspected by the contractor. The audit placed the blame on the IRS agency's individuals responsible for defining, negotiating, and administering the contract, with potentially 100% of funds being used inefficiently and the security improvements of IRS sites may have been ineffective.


2010 Austin suicide attack, Reaction
The United States Department of Homeland Security issued a statement saying that the incident did not appear to be linked to organized international terrorist groups. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs reaffirmed what Homeland Security said, and that President Barack Obama was briefed on the incident. The President expressed his concern and commended the courageous actions of the first responders. The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) launched two F-16 fighter aircraft from Ellington Airport in Houston, Texas, to conduct an air patrol in response to the crash. That action was reported as standard operating procedure in this situation.


2010 Austin suicide attack, Reaction
The company hosting embeddedart.com, T35 Hosting, took Stack's website offline "due to the sensitive nature of the events that transpired in Texas this morning and in compliance with a request from the FBI." Several groups supporting Stack on the social networking website Facebook appeared following the incident and the news of the accompanying manifesto. These were immediately shut down by Facebook staff.


2010 Austin suicide attack, Reaction
Austin police chief Art Acevedo stated that the incident was not the action of a major terrorist organization. He also cited "some heroic actions on the part of federal employees" that "will be told at the appropriate time."


2010 Austin suicide attack, Reaction
The Federal Bureau of Investigation stated that it was investigating the incident "as a criminal matter of an assault on a federal officer" and that it was not being considered terrorism at this time.


2010 Austin suicide attack, Reaction
However, two members of the United States House of Representatives, both of whose districts include the Austin area, made statements to the contrary. Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) stated, "Like the larger-scale tragedy in Oklahoma City, this was a cowardly act of domestic terrorism." Mike McCaul (R-Texas), told a reporter that, "it sounds like it [was a terrorist attack] to me." Georgetown University Professor Bruce Hoffman stated that for this to be considered an act of terrorism, "there has to be some political motive and it has to send a broader message that seeks some policy change. From what I've heard, that doesn't appear to be the case. It appears he was very mad at the [IRS] and this was a cathartic outburst of violence. His motivation was the key." A USA Today headline used the term "a chilling echo of terrorism."


2010 Austin suicide attack, Reaction
Citing the copy of Joseph Stack's note posted online, blogger Joan McCarter observed on the Daily Kos website that, "Obviously Stack was not a mentally healthy person, and he was embittered at capitalism, including crony capitalism, and health insurance companies and the government." She also stated that Stack could not be connected with the Tea Party movement, but argued that the incident "should inject a bit of caution into the anti-government flame-throwers on the right." The website Ace of Spades HQ disputed any connection to the movement and additionally stated Stack was not "right wing", citing Stack's criticism of politicians for not doing anything about health care reform.


2010 Austin suicide attack, Reaction
In an interview with ABC's Good Morning America, Joe Stack's adult daughter, Samantha Bell, who now lives in Norway, stated initially that she considered her father to be a hero, because she felt that now people might listen. While she does not agree with his specific actions involving the plane crash, she does agree with his actions about speaking out against "injustice" and "the government." Bell subsequently retracted aspects of her statement, saying her father was "not a hero" and adding, "We are mourning for Vernon Hunter."


2010 Austin suicide attack, Reaction
Five days after her husband Vernon Hunter's death, Valerie Hunter filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Sheryl Mann Stack, Andrew Joseph Stack's widow in federal District Court. The lawsuit alleges that Sheryl had a duty to "avoid a foreseeable risk of injury to others," including her late husband and failed to do so by not warning others about her late husband. The lawsuit also mentions that Stack was required by law to fly his plane at an altitude 1,000 feet (305 m) above the highest obstacle. At a March 8, 2010, benefit event, Stack's widow, Sheryl, publicly offered condolences for the victims of the attack.


2010 Austin suicide attack, Reaction
Iowa congressman Steve King(R-Iowa) has made several statements regarding Stack including,


2010 Austin suicide attack, Reaction
I think if we'd abolished the IRS back when I first advocated it, he wouldn't have a target for his airplane. And I'm still for abolishing the IRS, I've been for it for thirty years and I'm for a national sales tax (in its place).


2010 Austin suicide attack, Reaction
Academic and activist Noam Chomsky cited Joe Stack's letter as indicative of some of the public sentiment in the U.S., stated that several of Stack's assertions are accurate or based on real grievances, and urged people to "help" the Joseph Stacks of the world get involved in constructive popular movements instead of letting the Joseph Stacks "destroy themselves, and maybe the world," in order to prevent a process similar to how legitimate and valid popular grievances of the German people in the 1920s and 1930s were manipulated by the Nazis towards violence and away from constructive ends.


2010 Austin suicide attack, Reaction
The Internal Revenue Service formally designates certain individuals as potentially dangerous taxpayers (PDTs). In response to an inquiry after the attack, an IRS spokesperson declined to state whether Stack had been designated as a PDT.


2010 Australia Day Honours
The Australia Day Honours 2010 are appointments to various orders and honours to recognise and reward good works by Australian citizens. The list was announced on 26 January 2010 by the Governor General of Australia, Quentin Bryce.


2010 Australia Day Honours
The Australia Day Honours are the first of the two major annual honours lists, the first announced to coincide with Australia Day (26 January), with the other being the Queen's Birthday Honours, which are announced on the second Monday in June.


2010 Australia national soccer team season
This page summarises the Australia national soccer team fixtures and results in 2010.


2010 Australia national soccer team season, Summary
The year started with Australia's final two qualification matches for the 2011 AFC Asian Cup. Qualification was sealed by topping the group. Australia won four of eight friendlies during the year however the main event was the 2010 World Cup. With a win, draw and a loss, Australia failed to progress from the group stage on goal difference.


2010 Australian Drivers' Championship
The 2010 Australian Drivers' Championship was a CAMS sanctioned national motor racing title with the championship winner receiving the 2010 CAMS Gold Star award. The 2010 championship was the 54th Australian Drivers' Championship and the sixth to be contested with open wheel racing cars constructed in accordance with FIA Formula 3 regulations. The season began on 7 March 2010 at the Wakefield Park and finished on 24 October at Sandown Raceway after seven rounds across four different states with three races at each round.


2010 Australian Drivers' Championship
Heading into the final round of the series, British Team BRM driver Ben Barker led the championship over New Zealand teammate Mitch Evans. Barker pulled ahead after taking five of the six wins available at Mallala and Morgan Park and following it up with another win at the Eastern Creek round. Evans was eight points behind Barker, despite missing the Symmons Plains round due to a Formula Abarth test at Misano. Australian driver Tom Tweedie remained in the championship hunt, despite competing in the older 2004 specification Dallara-Renault compared to the 2007 model Team BRM Dallara-Mercedes cars of Barker and Evans.


2010 Australian Drivers' Championship
A pair of fourth places for Barker at Sandown saw the two Team BRM drivers tied on points, however the bonus point scored by Barker for the fastest lap in the final race giving him a one-point championship margin over Evans. Barker was also helped by the annulment of the second race after a serious incident involving Graeme Holmes and John Boothman. Tweedie finished third in the championship standings, 12 points behind Barker. Two other drivers claimed race wins; Andrew Waite who substituted for Evans at Symmons Plains and Tim Macrow who won both Sandown races in his only appearance of the season.


2010 Australian Drivers' Championship
Barker also won the East Coast Challenge, which was contested over the final three rounds of the series. He scored 101 points ahead of Evans (94), Tweedie (80), Chris Gilmour (66), Zhang Shan Qi (38) and Tim Macrow (33).


2010 Australian Drivers' Championship
Tom Tweedie won the National Class title having outscored his rivals at each of the seven rounds.


2010 Australian Drivers' Championship, Classes
Each vehicle competing in the Championship was nominated into one of the following classes:


2010 Australian Drivers' Championship, Classes
There was an additional 'Invitation Class' in the regulations – for automobiles constructed in accordance with the appropriate regulations that applied in the year of manufacture, however no such vehicle took part during 2010 leaving the class redundant.


2010 Australian Drivers' Championship, Points System
Points system was revised for 2010 although the changes are minor.


2010 Australian Drivers' Championship, Points System
Drivers of cars from all three classes were eligible to score points towards the Australian Drivers' Championship. National Class and Invitation Class drivers were also eligible to score points towards their respective class awards.


2010 Australian Drivers' Championship, Teams and drivers
The following teams and drivers competed in the 2010 Australian Drivers' Championship. Entries sourced in part from:


2010 Australian Drivers' Championship, Race calendar
The championship was contested over a seven-round series with a round scheduled for Winton Motor Raceway being cancelled as a cost saving initiative.


2010 Australian Drivers' Championship, Race calendar
The final three rounds of the series at Morgan Park, Eastern Creek and Sandown were packaged into a 'series within a series', labelled the East Coast Shootout.


2010 Australian Film Institute Awards
The 2010 Australian Film Institute Awards ceremony, presented by the Australian Film Institute (AFI), honoured the best Australian films of 2010 and took place on 11 December 2010 at the Regent Theatre, in Melbourne, Victoria.


2010 Australian Film Institute Awards
The Australian Film Institute announced the nominees competing for awards in forty-eight categories, in feature film, television, short film and documentaries, on 27 October 2010. Animal Kingdom received eighteen nominations, the most of any film in the awards' history. On the awards night, Animal Kingdom picked up the most awards, with ten, including Best Film.


2010 Australian Film Institute Awards, Winners and nominees
The nominees were announced on 27 October 2010, at the Sydney Theatre, in Dawes Point, New South Wales, by actors Jacki Weaver, Cate Blanchett, Gyton Grantley and Alex Dimitriades. Animal Kingdom received the most nominations, with eighteen, becoming the most nominated film in the awards history. Animal Kingdom received the most awards, with ten, including Best Film, and Best Direction and Best Original Screenplay for David Michôd. Other feature film winners were Bright Star with three, Tomorrow, When the War Began, with two awards, and Beneath Hill 60 with one. Some of the award categories in film, television, documentary and short film genres, for sound, editing, cinematography, music and television programs, were presented one day prior to the awards ceremony.


2010 Australian Film Institute Awards, Winners and nominees
Winners are listed first and marked in a separate colour, in boldface.


2010 Australian Formula Ford Championship
The 2010 Australian Formula Ford Championship was a CAMS sanctioned national motor racing title for drivers of Formula Ford open wheel racing cars. It was the 41st national series for Formula Fords to be held in Australia and the 18th to carry the Australian Formula Ford Championship name. The championship, which was promoted as the "2010 Genuine Ford Parts Australian Formula Ford Championship", began on 26 March 2010 at the Albert Park Street Circuit and ended on 21 November at Sandown Raceway after eight rounds. Australian Formula Ford Management Pty. Ltd. was appointed by CAMS as the Category Manager for the Championship.


2010 Australian Formula Ford Championship
Synergy Motorsport Spectrum driver Chaz Mostert won the title with a dominant season performance. The Queensland driver secured the title at Round 7 and won a total of five rounds during the series. Individual race wins were achieved by Mostert (14), Nick Foster (3), Ashley Walsh (2), Ryan Simpson (2) and Geoff Uhrhane (1).


2010 Australian Formula Ford Championship, Teams and drivers
The following teams and drivers competed in the championship. All teams and drivers were Australian-registered, excepting New Zealanders Nick Cassidy, Martin Short and Ben Barker, who was British-registered.


2010 Australian Formula Ford Championship, Teams and drivers
Note: All cars were powered by 1600cc Ford Duratec engines, as mandated by the championship regulations.


2010 Australian Formula Ford Championship, Calendar
Note: Rounds were contested over three races, with the exception of Round 1 which was staged over two races.


2010 Australian Formula Ford Championship, Points
Championship points were awarded on a 20–16–14–12–10–8–6–4–2–1 basis to the top ten classified finishers in each race. An additional point was awarded to the driver gaining pole position for the first race at each round.


2010 Australian Formula Ford Championship, Results
Note: Race 2 at the Albert Park Street Circuit, was stopped due to a serious crash on lap 2 involving Caleb Rayner. The race was abandoned and no championship points were awarded.


2010 Australian GT Championship
The 2010 Australian GT Championship was a CAMS sanctioned Australian motor racing championship open to closed production based sports cars which were either approved by the FIA for GT3 competition or approved by CAMS as Australian GTs. The championship, which was the 14th Australian GT Championship, incorporated drivers titles in three divisions, GT Championship, GT Challenge and GT Production. The Australian GT Sportscar Group Pty Ltd was appointed as the Category Manager by CAMS for the championship, which was promoted as the "Vodka O Australian GT Championship".


2010 Australian GT Championship
Defending champion David Wall became the first multiple championship winner in the history of the title with a 30-point victory over fellow Porsche driver, James Koundouris. Wall, driving the family team's Porsche 911 GT3 Cup S, won five races and claimed round wins at Adelaide and Eastern Creek. Third places at Albert Park and at Bathurst were enough to hold off Phillip Island round winner Koundouris, even after being excluded from the first race at Sandown. Dean Grant (Lamborghini Gallardo and Mosler MT900) was third in the championship. Other round winners were Porsche driver Max Twigg, at Albert Park, and Tony Quinn. Quinn drove an Aston Martin DBRS9 and a Mosler MT900, winning the Bathurst round in the former and the Sandown round in the latter, allowing him to climb into fourth in the championship.


2010 Australian GT Championship
In the GT Challenge division, Shane Smollen took a 120-point win over fellow Porsche 911 GT3 drivers, Michael Loccisano and Ray Angus.


2010 Australian GT Championship
Chevrolet Corvette driver Paul Freestone came from behind at the final round of the series to defeat Tony Alford (Nissan GT-R) and take victory in the GT Production division. Mark O'Connor (Lotus Exige) was third.


2010 Australian GT Championship
Controversy erupted after two major accidents at the second round of the series, which supported the 2010 Australian Grand Prix. A multi-car accident caused heavy damage to several vehicles at the start of one race and resulted in changes to regulations for rolling restarts, which have had consequences beyond GT racing. Additionally a multi-car accident that occurred under yellow flag conditions saw penalties levied against Porsche drivers Ray Angus and Andrew Taplin after they tangled with a slow moving damaged car and the parked Ascari KZ1-R of John Bowe.


2010 Australian GT Championship, Teams and drivers
The following teams and drivers contested the 2010 Australian GT Championship.


2010 Australian GT Championship, Points system
Points were awarded in each division at each race according to the following table.


2010 Australian GT Championship, Points system
Within each division, each driver could count only his/her best five round results.


2010 Australian GT Championship, Australian Tourist Trophy
The 2010 Australian Tourist Trophy was awarded by the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport to the driver accumulating the highest aggregate points total from the Eastern Creek and Phillip island "endurance" rounds of the championship. The title, which was the 21st Australian Tourist Trophy, was won by David Wall, driving a Porsche 911 GT3 Cup S Type 997.


2010 Australian Grand Prix
The 2010 Australian Grand Prix (formally the 2010 Formula 1 Qantas Australian Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race held on 28 March 2010 at the Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It was the second round of the 2010 Formula One World Championship. McLaren driver Jenson Button won the 58-lap race starting from fourth position. Robert Kubica finished second for the Renault team and Ferrari driver Felipe Massa was third.