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Risk models can’t rely just on the past anymore. A team of geoscientists suggests new ways to forecast evolving hazards in real time as cascading disaster risk worsens.
Consider installing hurricane-resistant features, especially if you live in a storm-prone region. Allen, of Rainbow Restoration, suggests investing in “impact windows, roll-down or accordion ...
Here is your 2025 Hurricane & Flood Survival Guide Read below to make sure you’re ready for our hurricane season HOUSTON – I’ll never forget my first day on the job in Houston: July 15, 2003.
The first big surge of Saharan dust from Africa has been sweeping through the Atlantic and Caribbean the past few days and has now spread into Florida. Here's what you need to know about this dust ...
It was the deadliest plane crash in the U.S. since Nov. 12, 2001, when a jet slammed into a New York City neighborhood just after takeoff, killing all 260 people on board and five on the ground.
Three states on Mexico’s southern coast braced for Hurricane Erick to crash onto land as a likely Category 3 storm early Thursday, with the authorities warning of powerful winds and a deluge of ...
The Euston Fire was reported around 4:25 p.m. off the 2500 block of Northwest Euston Lane and at first brought several Redmond Fire & Rescue engines to the scene, then a host of other air tankers ...
The following excerpts from the chapter, “The Florida Fling,” show us Fort Myers in 1925, as well as the killer hurricane of 1926, from the point of view of the 10-year-old boy who was my father.
FEMA workers on the ground in Oregon "were actually able to get a good percentage of them assistance just by taking the time to go over them with it," Criswell says.
After the hurricane dumped more than a foot of water in Tampa, pumps at a nearby pond in Forest Hills failed. Two pumps had no back-up generator — the back-up generator on a third never came on.
A drone view shows a flooded St. Armands Circle after the area was hit by Helene in Sarasota, Florida, Sept. 27, 2024, in this still image obtained from social media video.
From the column: "High school can be a mess of uncertainty, anxiety, and struggle; but at Denfeld, ... there has always been someone willing to show a little bit of humanity when it mattered most." ...