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Mindful that the suburban West Bank of New Orleans has regained its pre-Hurricane Katrina population and is primed for growth, the Army Corps of Engineers is launching a $1 billion effort to keep the next storm at bay.
State-backed Citizens Property Insurance Corp. has won approval to raise rates by an average of 5.4 percent for homeowner coverage that includes hurricane damage, except in high-risk coastal areas where premiums will be revised later.
Florida insurance regulators are failing in their duties if they don't make the state-backed Citizens Property Insurance Corp. raise property insurance rates by 10 percent across the board, a business group lobbyist said Tuesday.
People who lived through Hurricane Ivan can't forget the haunting images left by one of the strongest storms ever recorded: condo towers collapsed in roiling surf, splintered homes or flat slabs, fragments of highways lost in a sea of sand. They wish others remembered, too.
Grenada has sold some 100 Venezuelan-built houses at a deep discount to people left homeless by Hurricane Ivan in 2004, the island's leader said Wednesday.
It’s two months into 2009 hurricane season and the first tropical storms and major hurricane are impacting a number cruises in the Caribbean. Last weekend, Tropical Storm Ana doused much of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Hurricane Bill became the first hurricane of the season, and is currently a Category 4 storm.
JetBlue Airways said Wednesday it will waive ticket-change fees and fare differences to let customers booked for flights to or from Bermuda to postpone their trip due to the approach of Hurricane Bill.
The Atlantic hurricane season will be less active than originally predicted, government forecasters said Thursday after the first two months of the half-year stretch passed without any named storms developing.
New Orleans got more than $1 billion for tax-free bonds to help spur development after Hurricane Katrina, but it's finding few takers amid a tight credit market and lingering jitters about investing here nearly four years after the storm.
The chance of a severe 2009 hurricane season continues to fade, according to the most recent forecasts, a potential break from recent years when violent storms smashed in the Gulf Coast and sent energy prices spiking.
BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. - Most people living along the gulf and south Atlantic coasts don't do much to prepare for hurricane seasons — opinion polls tell us that. Then there's Susan Scibetta, who's been preparing for those storms ever since she lived through Hurricane Andrew, and fine-tuning her survival strategy through hurricanes Charley, Frances, Jeanne and Wilma.
The beaches of Galveston, Texas, were packed for Memorial Day.
Mike Manikchand points toward his neighbors — a half-dozen empty, foreclosed-upon homes, sitting on weed-strewn yards — and he wonders: What will happen if a hurricane slams into southwest Florida this year?
As the 2009 hurricane season arrives, many homeowners are finding insurance is either more expensive, or harder to get.
Hurricanes will strike the United States this season and Americans must be prepared, federal forecasters said Thursday. They predicted nine to 14 named tropical storms this year.
Thanh Nguyen will soon give up the cramped travel trailer that's been her home for more than four years, pack her belongings into an old Toyota Corolla and rely on the kindness of others for a place to live.
The 2009 hurricane season will be less active than last year's flurry of storms, and there's less than a 50 percent chance that a hurricane will hit the southeastern U.S., a researcher said Thursday.
Seventeen years after Hurricane Andrew leveled much of southern Miami-Dade County, a different kind of storm is devastating households here: foreclosures.
In one of her first moves as Homeland Security secretary, Janet Napolitano has ordered a fresh review of hurricane recovery efforts in the gulf coast 3 1/2 years after two killer hurricanes swept ashore.
Gov. Charlie Crist said Tuesday if State Farm wants to pull out of the state's property insurance market it should not be allowed to do any business in Florida.
Florida's largest private provider of homeowners insurance is planning to stop selling property insurance in the state.
Hurricane Ike was the big storm Texas officials feared would hit the coast. Now comes the hard task of paying for it.
Cubans allegedly have stolen everything from gasoline and cement to rice and powdered milk — one person was even caught with 320 tubes of toothpaste — in the wake of three recent hurricanes that caused more than $10 billion in damages.
The 2008 Atlantic hurricane season, which ends Sunday, seemed to strike the United States and Cuba as if on redial, setting at least five weather records for persistence and repeatedly striking the same areas.
From the Gulf Coast to Ohio, the only thing louder than the howling winds from hurricanes this year were the complaints about how long it took to get the lights back on.
Flood alerts as Ida still drenches SoutheastFlood watches and warnings were issued for most of North Carolina as the remnants of Hurricane Ida brought heavy rain across the state on Wednesday.
Mexico issues hurricane warning as Ida approaches The U.S. National Hurricane Center says Mexico has issued a hurricane warning for parts of the Yucatan Peninsula as Ida nears the popular resort town of Cancun.
Tropical Storm Ida forms in southwestern CaribbeanIt's been a relatively quiet hurricane season, but it's not over yet.
New Orleans Cannot be Protected from HurricanesBut, the Corps' top commander was quoted in two newspapers this weekend saying that despite ongoing efforts, flooding can't be stopped in New Orleans. According to The Guardian in the UK and Huffington Post, Lt.
Hurricane Rick is now a threatening Category 4 storm, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center. Hurricane Rick quickly strengthened into an "extremely dangerous" Category 4 storm early Saturday off Mexico's Pacific coast with winds near 135 mph (185 kph), the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.
President Obama's Trip to New Orleans Draws Criticism -- Before He Even ArrivesSlightly more than four years after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast, President Obama is traveling to New Orleans today to fulfill a campaign promise to survey first-hand the city's recovery. Share The president discusses the rebuilding programs his office put in place.
Chocks away! This is an auction that will take offA rare Hawker Hurricane, a fabric-covered fighter flown by hundreds of Australians in World War II, will be auctioned in Melbourne this weekend and is expected to fetch between $2 million and $4 million.
McClellanville: 20 Years after Hurricane HugoMcClellanville, SC recovers after category 5 Hurricane Hugo in 1989.
DA: No New Investigation Into Memorial Deaths During 'Katrina'NEW ORLEANS -- The Orleans Parish District Attorney's office told WDSU on Friday that it is not reopening the investigation into the deaths of the patients stranded at Memorial Medical Center during Hurricane Katrina.
Fred strengthens to Category 2 in AtlanticHurricane Fred strengthened to a Category 2 storm in the Atlantic and forecasters said it could become a major hurricane later in the day, although it was unlikely to make landfall.
Jimena weakens, drenches drought-hit regionTropical Storm Jimena was moving north along the east coast of Mexico's Baja California early Thursday, a day after hitting the peninsula as a hurricane that ripped off roofs and toppled power poles.
Update: 'Vigorous' wave comes off coast of Africa; Erika still in CaribbeanWhile Tropical Storm Erika is forecast to dissipate within five days, another tropical wave has come off the coast of Africa.
Weakening Jimena lashes southern Baja resortsHurricane Jimena weakened to a Category 2 storm as it bore down on the coast of Mexico's Baja California peninsula.
Tropical Storm Erika forms in Atlantic We have another storm to officially watch now, and her name is Erika
Charting New Orleans' Progress Since KatrinaFour Years after hurricane Katrina, New Orleans has made progress into returning the city to its former glory, but there are still many areas requiring attention.
Downgraded Danny stirs up dangerous surfDanny weakened from a tropical storm to a tropical depression early Saturday but was still expected to produce a second straight weekend of dangerous surf along the East Coast.
The morning after was like waking up from Katrina all over again. Most structures were reduced to pieces in the aftermath of the Category 4 hurricane, which gave only three days warning as to its intended path.
Hurricane Bill blamed for swimmer's death off Florida coast Florida officials say a 54-year-old swimmer died in rough waves fueled by Hurricane Bill.
Crist Defends Florida from Hurricanes with PrayersCould it be divine intervention that's kept Florida safe from hurricanes since Gov. Charlie Crist took office? Crist told a group of real estate agents Friday that he's had prayer notes placed in the Western Wall in Jerusalem each year and no major storms have hit Florida.
Hurricane Bill weakens to Category 3 stormHurricane Bill weakened slightly to a Category 3 storm on Wednesday as it roared across the Atlantic Ocean.
National Hurricane Center names first storm of the seasonWe have our first Tropical Storm of the hurricane season. Ana has formed in the tropical Atlantic Ocean, reports the National Hurricane Center.
Hurricane Charley five years later Five years have passed since Hurricane Charley stormed through the town of 17,000 and caused $3 billion in damage.
Tropical depression moving west A tropical depression in the Atlantic has yet to strengthen but forecasters say it could become a tropical storm in the next few days.
System could become tropical depression | abcactionnews.comA tropical wave off the coast of Africa near the Cape Verde Islands is drifting westward and could become a tropical depression within the next few days.
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