Jane Macdougall is a freelance writer and former National Post columnist who lives in Vancouver. She writes The Bookless Club ...

By comparison, Hurricane Katrina, the 2005 storm that devastated ... increasing threats of a warming planet — especially in the pathway of the Santa Ana winds. Fugate said the L.A. region ...

The Gulf Park campus is also home to the state’s only bachelor’s degree in ocean engineering and the only film studies pathway offered at ... dozens of storms – including Hurricane Camille in 1969 and ...

Such scenarios are common in the aftermath of catastrophic storms: In this case, Hurricane Katrina’s ravage along the Gulf Coast – particularly southeast Florida, Mississippi and southeast ...

is one of the few pilots who has been inside Hurricane Katrina. Keesler Airforce Base in Biloxi, Mississippi is the headquarters for the Hurricane Hunters, but Cross was born and raised in South ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - In the aftermath of one of history’s biggest engineering failures -- the breaching of levees during Hurricane Katrina -- the federal government built a nearly $15 billion ...

Lieutenant General Russel Honoré was a key figure in the response to Hurricane Katrina. He spoke to residents about the importance of being prepared. “We’ve got to take into account that on ...

According to NOAA, for all United States hurricanes, Hurricane Katrina (2005, $201.3 billion) is the costliest storm on record. Hurricane Harvey (2017, $160.0 billion) ranks second, Hurricane Ian ...

Storm surge has accounted for about half of all the deaths in hurricanes since 1970, according to the National Hurricane Center. It caused most of the 1,800 deaths in Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Hurricane Helene was the continental United States’ deadliest single storm since Hurricane Katrina in 2005, when about 1,400 people died. Other deadly storms in 2024 included Hurricanes Beryl ...