In focus: Storms that stall or move at a snail's pace near the coastline pile up water and prolong the coastal flooding ...

Philip Bedient, a professor who studies flood models at Rice University, brought us to one of the county’s most recent undertakings, an enormous, man-made concrete canal full of water. It was recently ...

HURRICANE MARIA Less than two weeks after areas in the Caribbean were hit by Hurricane Irma, Maria moved in as a Category 5 hurricane. It has caused devastation as it moved through the Caribbean.

Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale to categorize hurricanes.Hurricanes are assigned Category 1-5 depending on their wind speeds.We ...

Since Tropical Storm Harvey, Orange County, along with its drainage district and cities has been working to increase the size ...

The costliest hurricane to impact the U.S. was Hurricane Katrina (2005), which caused an estimated $201.3 billion in damage.