Hurricane News
Hurricane Paloma heads to Cayman Islands
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands (AP) - Late-season Hurricane Paloma bore down on the rain-drenched Cayman Islands on Friday, triggering a run on stores and stranding hundreds as the airport closed on the chain of tiny Caribbean islands. The hurricane's...
Coroner: More aid needed for casket retrieval
LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) - Calcasieu Parish Deputy Coroner Zeb Johnson is worried that the federal government will not aid in the recovery and reburial of more than 170 caskets disinterred by Hurricane Ike. Johnson said Wednesday that the U.S. Department...
Hurricane provided training opportunity in Maine
MACHIAS, Maine (AP) - Hurricane Kyle turned out to be a phantom storm that caused little damage in eastern Maine. But the storm preparation provided good practice in the event a hurricane does make landfall in Maine, officials said Monday. Emergency...
Laura, 11th named storm, forms far out in Atlantic
MIAMI (AP) - The National Hurricane Center says Laura has formed over the north central Atlantic as the 11th named storm of the season. The storm was centered about 695 miles south-southeast of Cape Race, Newfoundland, at 11 a.m. EDT Monday and...
Deadline for FEMA aid approaches
Officials are urging Rio Grande Valley residents affected by Hurricane Dolly to apply for aid from the Federal Emergency Management Agency before the Sept. 30 deadline. "We are pushing to make sure that no one gets left out," said Charles Powell, a public...
Ike-battered Galveston allows residents to return
GALVESTON, Texas (AP) - Thousands of people returned on Wednesday for the first time since their island city was blasted by Hurricane Ike nearly two weeks ago, choosing home over warnings that Galveston is "broken" and infested with germs and snakes. Traffic...
Gulf Coast officials visit Washington asking for money
WASHINGTON (AP) - Gulf Coast officials came to Capitol Hill on Tuesday asking lawmakers for fast federal money for hurricane recovery and a minimum of bureaucratic red tape. Texas is looking at a $11.4 billion price tag for Ike's damages, including...
Galveston area remains dangerous in Ike's wake
ANAHUAC, Texas (AP) - Businesses were beginning to reopen, cell phone service was improving and power was coming back, but leaders warned that Galveston remains dangerous more than a week after Hurricane Ike's devastating assault. Fuel and other...
$6B storm? Ike's economic impact is felt widely
GALVESTON, Texas (AP) - Shrimpers and oystermen are dredging their boats from the muck. Tourist areas on the coast that should be bustling at the start of convention season are flattened. Lingering power outages are keeping offices empty and restaurants...
Texas a grim tableau nearly a week after Ike
GALVESTON, Texas (AP) - It's been nearly a week since Hurricane Ike bulled ashore, and the images of once-bustling coastal Texas communities reduced to only a faint shadow of their old selves are no less staggering. Survivors traipsing past debris...
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