Many Could Ignore Hurricane Evacuation

One in four people in Southern coastal states said they would ignore government hurricane evacuation orders, according to a Harvard University survey done earlier this month. Complete Story

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Wanna Bet That a Hurricane Will Hit US?

It's a slow time of year for avid gamblers. The basketball and hockey playoffs are over and football is weeks away.

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Feds to Foot Bill for Hurricane Cleanup

The government will keep covering the full cost of clearing the bulk of hurricane wreckage in the Gulf Coast for the rest of the year, the White House said Thursday.

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Dispute Delays Federal Gulf Coast Cleanup

Massive amounts of hurricane wreckage — if piled atop a football field it would reach almost two miles into the air — remain on the Gulf Coast. Yet the Bush administration says it can't clear it quickly without trampling private property rights.

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Fla. OKs Property Insurance Surcharge

The state has approved a 2 percent surcharge on all property insurance policies to help cover outstanding claims for one of Florida's largest property insurers, whose insolvent subsidiaries are being liquidated under state control because of hurricane losses.

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For $4,995, Hurricane Phone Available

Southerners worried a hurricane will leave them without phones can now buy a "Personal Hurricane Kit" for just $4,995.

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Lyons Prepares for New Season of Storms

During pre-Katrina visits to New Orleans, Steve Lyons set aside a few hours for an errand that would probably only occur to the Weather Channel's hurricane expert. He'd wander through the city and ask residents whether or not they would evacuate if a hurricane was on its way.

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Official Says Gulf Evac Plans Need Work

The five Gulf Coast states have good evacuation plans in place for tropical storms, but more work is needed to prepare for another major hurricane, U.S. Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta said Friday.

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Feds Cite Some Progress in Hurricane Prep

In the chaos after the next big hurricane, the demands on Washington will be many: More protection against looting and violence, temporary housing for victims, a quick way to sign people up for aid.

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Govenment Hoping Hurricane Lessons Learned

The storm barrels ashore. Down go the power lines, the cell phone towers, perhaps even homes. But this time it's different.

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Forecaster Expects Active Hurricane Season

The Atlantic hurricane season that starts Thursday will be active, but it shouldn't be as destructive as last year's record-setting season, one of the nation's top hurricane forecasters said Wednesday.

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Gulf Coast Character Rebuilds in Style

The crown molding is hardly standard-issue for the Cavalier trailer the government provided after Hurricane Katrina. And certainly, neither is the Rolls-Royce parked on the slab out front.

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Experts Say Evacuations Remain Challenging

The 14-hour traffic jams and gasoline shortages that accompanied last year's killer hurricanes led to improved evacuation plans for some hurricane-prone states. But that does not mean the next evacuation will go smoothly.

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On the Bright Side, Oil Prices Help La.

After hurricanes Katrina and Rita shut down businesses and added thousands to the unemployment rolls, state economists predicted a nearly $1 billion hit to Louisiana's tax income. They were off the mark entirely.

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White House Staff Holds Hurricane Exercise

President Bush's Cabinet tested its readiness and response to a catastrophic hurricane during a desktop drill carried out in a quiet office building in the nation's capital.

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Experts: Hurricane Season Won't Match '05

The next Atlantic hurricane season could produce up to 16 named storms, six of them major hurricanes, suggesting another active year but not the record pounding of 2005, scientists said Monday.

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Number of Deaths From Katrina Rises

Louisiana raised its Hurricane Katrina death toll by 281 Friday to 1,577 after including more out-of-state evacuees whose deaths were deemed related to the storm or its grueling aftermath.

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Still Reeling, Gulf Readies for New Storms

Missionaries and students on spring break have worked in shifts to put a roof over Brenda Anderson's head before hurricane season begins June 1.

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Poll: Most on Coast Unready for Hurricanes

Despite Hurricane Katrina's devastation of Louisiana and Mississippi, coastal residents have not taken steps to protect their families if a hurricane were to threaten their homes, according to a poll released Tuesday.

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Fla. Gov. Bush Signs Home Insurance Bill

Gov. Jeb Bush signed a property insurance bill Tuesday that aims to lure insurance companies back to Florida and keep coverage available, but he acknowledged that it won't stop rates from increasing in the short run.

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State Farm Seeks Homeowners' Rate Hike

State Farm Insurance Co., the largest home insurer in Florida, is seeking to boost premiums by an average of about 70 percent, the company said Friday.

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Fla. Gets Sales Tax Break on Storm Gear

Florida is giving its shoppers a 12-day break this spring from sales taxes on flashlights, generators and other items they might need for the coming hurricane season.

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Mexicans Protest Slow Hurricane Rebuilding

About 3,000 people whose homes were damaged or destroyed by flooding unleashed by Hurricane Stan last fall marched Thursday to protest a lack of progress in efforts to rebuild 45 hard-hit communities.

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Five Hurricane Names to Be Retired

Never will Katrina be so little missed. Nor Dennis, Rita, Stan and Wilma — four other hurricane names from last year's devastating storms that have now been officially retired.

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Active Hurricane Season Predicted for 2006

Forecasters expect another busy Atlantic hurricane season this year, with 17 named storms but not as many intense storms striking land as last year.

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cbs4.com - New Hurricane System May Prove Useful

A new type of hurricane system dubbed "Cat-5 Hurricane netting" virtually indestructible helps deflect and slow wind while letting housing structures breathe before,during and even after the storm.

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Hospital Staff Charged With Killing Patients After Katrina

Hospital Staff Charged With Killing Patients After Katrina Attorney General To Hold News Conference Were some hospital patients put to death after Hurricane Katrina?

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2005 Hurricane Season: Blame the Heat

It's no secret that 2005 was a ferocious hurricane season. A record 28 tropical storms and hurricanes--including four category-5s--lashed through the Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, and Caribbean, leaving an appalling toll of death, misery, and destruction in their wakes.

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Warming Was Top Factor in 2005 Hurricanes, New Data Says

Following the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina, climate scientists began a heated debate: Was last year's superstrong hurricane season a result of global warming? Now a new study argues that global warming is probably the larger of the two factors.

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'Breathtaking' Waste and Fraud in Hurricane Aid

"Among the many superlatives associated with Hurricane Katrina can now be added this one: it produced one of the most extraordinary displays of scams, schemes and stupefying bureaucratic bungles in modern history, costing taxpayers up to $2 billion."

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'Breathtaking' Waste and Fraud in Hurricane Aid, Costing Taxpayers up to $2 billion.

Among the many superlatives associated with Hurricane Katrina can now be added this one: it produced one of the most extraordinary displays of scams, schemes and stupefying bureaucratic bungles in modern history, costing taxpayers up to $2 billion.... There are the bureaucrats w …

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'Breathtaking' Waste and Fraud in Hurricane Aid

Absolutely amazing, just read.

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New Orleans' Levees Now Damaged By Lack of Water

"Officials with the East Jefferson Levee District said the cracks," which are being monitored, "are the result of the drought conditions that are baking the region and everything in it."

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Hurricane machine to flatten home

A family home in Canada will be deliberately destroyed by scientists to understand how buildings react to hurricane force winds. The two-storey structure will face the equivalent of 200mph (320km/h) gusts to simulate a category five storm, like Hurricane Katrina at its peak.

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Lives Crammed Into 240 Square Feet

In Mississippi, some of those FEMA trailers are being utilized by displaced families. It's a place to live, but it doesn't sound all that comfortable. From the article: Paulette Shiyou invites you into her family's trailer with a natural hospitality that has remained intact.

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Run! It's a hurricane! I mean tropical storm! I mean...

My take on the Tropical Storm Alberto coverage. I hate it.

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Hurricane Season 2006 is Officially Here

And so it begins... The first named storm of the 2006 hurricane season has formed. It's name is 'Alberto'. Named so, I presume, after our equally destructive Attorney General. As of this writing, the storm is tracking toward Florida and is strengthening.

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Is the Market the Cause of Hurricane Damage?

On this the day that the first tropical storm of the season crashes ashore in Florida let's think back a little bit to Katrina and Rita.

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Hurricane Names

The first tropical depression of the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season formed Saturday in the northwestern Caribbean Sea, and was expected to become the year's first named storm, forecasters said. It will be called Alberto.

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Did Al get the science right?

"The usual oil industry flacks and dogmatic skeptics have surfaced to denounce Al Gore's global warming movie. But climate scientists say that, basically, he got it right."

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Study Sees Increase in Illegal Hispanic Workers in New Orleans - New York Times

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Clamoring to Come Home to New Orleans Projects - New York Times

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Hurricane Center in Key West Built to Stand Its Ground

National Weather Service (NWS) forecasters in the island city of Key West, Florida, wondered for years whether their office would stand up to a bad hurricane.

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Ebert: You Owe it To Yourself to See An Inconvenient Truth

Roger Ebert writes: "You owe it to yourself to see this film. If you do not, and you have grandchildren, you should explain to them why you decided not to.

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Army Builders Accept Blame Over Flooding

In a sweeping new study of the causes of the disaster in New Orleans last year, the Army Corps of Engineers concludes that the levees it built in the city were an incomplete patchwork of protection, containing flaws in design and construction and not built to handle a storm anywh …

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New Orleans Catastrophe Wasn't Katrina

From the article: The evidence, by now, is overwhelming: Beautiful, decadent New Orleans wasn't doomed by Hurricane Katrina but by decades of human incompetence and neglect.

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Gore's 'Truth' splits hurricane scientists 

Al Gore's new movie on global warming, "An Inconvenient Truth," opens with scenes from Hurricane Katrina slamming into New Orleans.

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Police shot mentally disabled man in back

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Experts warn of New England hurricane

Amid a flurry of new data showing a dramatic increase in the water temperatures in the north Atlantic ocean, forecasters Monday said something of a perfect storm is developing, and raised the specter that a major hurricane will threaten New England this summer.

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Another Big Hurricane Season Predicted - Prepare Now

Hurricane season is upon us again. The bad news is that the experts are predicting that it will be another above normal year with 16 named storms and 4 to 6 major storms in the Atlantic. The good news is they are expecting a calmer season than last years record breaking 28 storms.

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