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In focus: Storms that stall or move at a snail's pace near the coastline pile up water and prolong the coastal flooding ...
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.
The National Hurricane Center uses the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale which estimates potential property damage using a ...
The costliest hurricane to impact the U.S. was Hurricane Katrina (2005), which caused an estimated $201.3 billion in damage.
A major hurricane could shut down one of the country’s largest energy and petrochemical hubs. But a decadeslong effort to ...
A new report examines the growing financial and social costs of increasing hurricane risk, with special attention to areas of ...
When a hurricane causes extreme damage or loss of life, its name is retired from future use out of respect and to avoid ...
Across the United States, insurance markets are buckling under the pressure of more frequent and expensive climate events.
Texas state troopers are shown in Rockport on Aug. 26, 2017, the day after the town sustained heavy damage from Hurricane Harvey. Brandon Formby Sazon, who rented his apartment and the building ...
5 years after Hurricane Harvey Robstown family moves into new home Hurricane Harvey caused $125 billion dollars in damage, making it the second most costly storm in United States history.
The historic 2017 storm remains one of the worst disasters in the city's history, leaving dozens of people dead and causing hundreds of billions of dollars worth of damage. From fluctuating rent ...
Residents in Houston, Texas, suffered massive damage from Hurricane Harvey in 2017 but aren't seeing any of the $1 billion in federal funding promised to help Texas recover from the storm ...