The first named storm of the Atlantic season hammered Florida with rain, heavy winds, and tornadoes Thursday as it moved toward the coast of Georgia and the Carolinas, promising sloppy commutes and waterlogged vacation getaways through the beginning of the weekend.
A broad mass of storms could become season’s first tropical storm but it’s going to be a rainy week even if it doesn’t
Though the state has escaped a direct strike over the last seven years, last year still showed how damaging storms and close calls can be. And 2013 is expected to bring another active season.
High school friends, “a couple Jewish boys from Davie” are in the business of selling survival.
As a structural engineer whose expertise is fortifying buildings against severe wind events, Timothy Reinhold has traveled the country examining the wreckage incurred by powerful hurricanes, from the wide swaths carved in 1992 by Andrew to the strips of aluminum siding left dangling in trees like Christmas tinsel after Charley in 2004.
Critics see political donations and heavy lobbying by Heritage Property and Casualty as evidence that Citizens Property and Gov. Rick Scott are tapping the insurer’s $6.4 billion surplus for special giveaways to politically-connected companies.
Hurricane season officially begins June 1, with forecasters predicting an extremely active” hurricane season.
At an annual hurricane conference, Gov. Rick Scott and emergency managers discussed the risks of storm surge and worries about federal budget cuts.
Miami-Dade has dramatically expanded hurricane evacuation zones to cover nearly three-quarters of the county’s population.
The 100-page bill seeks to shrink the level of risk carried by Citizens Property Insurance Corp. by raising its rates and forcing its policyholders into the private market.
The state of Florida has filed a lawsuit accusing German-based Allianz of a fraudulent scheme that resulted in the insolvency of a Miami-based property insurance company.
Citizens Insurance says it has done an ‘extraordinary’ job of reducing risk since last year, but lawmakers are pitching sweeping rate hikes anyway.
Gay-rights advocates have crafted a primer for emergency workers about how to care for LGBT disaster victims.
A tropical storm that never came close to Palm Beach County will cost nearly $72 million in total damages and cleanup costs, county emergency managers said.
About 62,000 people in South Florida lacked electricity Monday as FPL battled a large storm that kept the hits coming to the region’s electrical grid.
After hundreds of weather-related flight cancellations throughout South Florida in recent days, travel is expected to be closer to the norm Tuesday.
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Hurricane preparation has become an essential part of doing business in South Florida, as companies search for high — and low-tech — solutions.
This descriptive look into the aftermath of Hurricane Andrew was initially printed on the front page of the Miami Herald on Sept. 6, 1992. Reporter Michael Browning, who worked at the Miami Herald from 1978 to 1998, died in 2006.
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