Hurricane Idalia briefly strengthened into an extremely dangerous Category 4 over the Gulf of Mexico early Wednesday but then weakened slightly back to a Category 3 beforemaking landfall at Keaton Beach in the Big Bend regionof Florida, the National Hurricane Center said. It warned the ...
Elliott, Christopher
Yup, just Irma. The weekend after I arrived, hurricane Irma hit Florida. Hard. This is officially my third hurricane. But the first one barely counts. That was Arthur in the summer of 2014. We just took turns chasing each other up the eastern seaboard. The last two, Matthew and Irma ...
Hurricane Beryl, which hit in July of this year and is still under review, generated at least 65 confirmed tornadoes and currently ranks fifth. By comparison, Florida overall typically sees about 50 tornadoes a year on average, according to Matthew Elliot, a warning coordination meteorolo...
His confusion had hit and all-time high and his legs were starting to fail him. I remember bringing Henry home as a pup like it was yesterday. When we pulled up to the house, we got Henry out of the car and put him down in the grass to go potty and he instantly sat down to ...
When the storm of empathy references finally made landfall, surging against the wind-slowing topographies of first Monday’s and then Tuesday’s news cycles like a hurricane against the shore, it had merited headlines at Huffpost (Why Was Rob Portman’s Stroke of Empathy So Shocking?), and ...
“The hurricane was a nonevent for us,” he said. “Had it not been for an F-3 tornado, the entire thing would have been a nonevent for us.” It was one of dozens oftornadoes spawned by Miltonthat hit South Florida far from where the storm made landfall near Sar...
And it was so, except in Florida, where God had a different plan. The elements of land and sea would be resolved not by divine decree, but through the interminable efforts of civil engineering: “Cursed is the ground,” the swamp reminds us, lest we forget—“through painful toil you ...
WATCHVIDEOBELOW in light of today’s headlines in which Hurricane Miltonstrengthened in a matter of hoursfrom a Category 3 to a Category 5 monster storm, headed straight for the heart of central Florida (Trump territory just like rural North Carolina areas hit by Hurricane Helene). ...
A few weeks after Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf coast, the Texas school where I teach collected furniture and other household items for a family from Louisiana that had lost everything. I thought of how sad it would be to lose all of the things that held so many priceless memories. Nothi...