After leaving Florida as a tropical storm Thursday and entering the Atlantic Ocean north of Cape Canaveral, Ian spun up into a hurricane again with winds of 75 mph. A hurricane warning was issued for the South Carolina coast and extended to Cape Fear on the southeastern coast of North Carolin...
Florida insurance carriers used altered hurricane damage reports, whistleblowers sayJeff Rapkin admits that he prayed for the "untimely demise" of the adjuster who examined his home after it was devastated by 2022's Hurricane Ian.Rapkin, a Florida resident and father, said the adjuster told h...
MORE: Hurricane Ian live updates "We've got great sheriff's departments, police departments, fire departments, state rescue teams. They're working hard. But there's a lot of people that need help right now," he said. He expressed concern for the state's many low-lying areas. "The wa...
Hurricane Milton has shocked experts with how quickly it intensified ahead of its expected landfall late on Wednesday or early Thursday, coming around two weeks after Hurricane Helene killed over 200 people in the US.
Hurricane Helene’s eyewall has begun moving ashore in the Big Bend area of Florida’s northwestern coast, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. The Category 4 storm is expected to produce “catastrophic winds” in the area over the next few hours, the center said. ...
So.. Ron DeSantis-led Florida restored power after a Category 3 hurricane at a much faster pace than California has been able to count votes. (Florida also did count votes, but there aren’t any interesting statistics from that process because it took just a few hours.) ...
When a hurricane is expected to make landfall in the U.S., Florida is frequently in the path of the storm due to the fact that it's a peninsula located between the Gulf of Mexico and the open Atlantic Ocean. Hurricanes have devastated many parts of Florida in the past, though it’s ...
Hurricane Center"We're going to keep monitoring the track of this storm but it really is important to stress the degree of uncertainty that still exists," DeSantis said at a news conference Sunday, cautioning that "even if you're not necessarily right in the eye of the path of the ...
The president said he hasn't spoken with House Speaker Mike Johnson or asked him to bring Congress back before Election Day. Johnson said Wednesday in North Carolina — a state badly hit by Hurricane Helene — that FEMA and the administration "have the resources necessary right now to address...
Hurricane Ian was a hugely damaging and deadly storm. A full accounting of the destruction won’t emerge for months, but right now, the 102 people dead, $40 billion in damages. It’s the most deadly hurricane to hit Florida since 1935. But what is particularly tragic is that Ian hit ...