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Ian death toll hits 101 as evacuees return to mud, rubble
The number of storm-related deaths rose to at least 101 on Thursday, eight days after the storm made landfall in southwest Florida. Read more
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The number of storm-related deaths rose to at least 101 on Thursday, eight days after the storm made landfall in southwest Florida. Read more
Pine Island, the largest barrier island off Florida’s Gulf Coast, has been largely cut off from the outside world. Read more
More rural communities are losing access to groundwater as heavy pumping depletes underground aquifers that aren’t being replenished by rain and snow. Read more
By the weekend, much of that food was in the garbage, the floors were still wet and muddy from the floodwaters that had filled the room, and the pantry’s founder and director, Miriam Ortiz, was worried about what would become of her neighborhood as she worked to get the pantry she started nine years ago up and running again. Read more
The storm was forecast to roar past the Islas Marias, a former prison colony being developed as a tourist draw, late Sunday or early Monday and then head for a sparsely populated, lagoon-dotted stretch of the mainland by late Monday. Read more
The National Weather Service has canceled the flash flood warning for Kauai. Read more
Florida, with nearly four dozen reported dead, was hit hardest by the Category 4 hurricane, one of the strongest to make landfall in the United States. Read more
The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Orlene had maximum sustained winds of 80 mph at midafternoon. Read more
Forecasters predicted Ian will have dropped up to two feet of rain in parts of Florida by the time it stopped. Read more
The Energy and Mines Ministry announced it had restored energy to three regions by activating two large power plants in Felton and Nuevitas and was working to get others back on line. Read more
Cuba remained in the dark early Wednesday after Hurricane Ian knocked out its power grid and devastated some of the country’s most important tobacco farms when it hit the island’s western tip as a major storm. Read more
This turbocharging of storms is likely to become even more frequent as the world gets warmer, scientists say. Read more
The typhoon gained considerable strength from a storm with sustained winds of 53 mph on Saturday into a super typhoon just 24 hours later in an “explosive intensification” over the open sea. Read more
The National Hurricane Center said Ian is expected to become a hurricane on Monday and reach major hurricane strength Tuesday. Read more
Fiona transformed from a hurricane into a post-tropical storm late Friday, but it still had hurricane-strength winds and brought drenching rains and huge waves. Read more
Ian is forecast to rapidly strengthen in the coming days before moving over Cuba and making landfall in Florida in the middle of next week with major hurricane force. Read more
Police said the man who drove into a pond in central Japan’s Shizuoka prefecture was rushed to a hospital but died. Read more
There were no injuries or deaths reported after the storm, the remnant of Typhoon Merbok, traveled north through the Bering Strait. Read more
Speaking at a briefing with Federal Emergency Management Agency officials in New York, Biden said, “We’re all in this together.” Read more
The swell is forecast to peak during daylight hours today and then decline slowly from tonight through Friday. Read more
The situation was maddening for many people across an island once again left without basic services following a storm. Read more
