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Important online resources and telephone numbers in the event of a storm.
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This year, Floridians can't count on an expanse of warm water in the Pacific Ocean - El Niño - that shifted wind patterns and snuffed out developing storms during the 2009 season.
Eemergency managers who fear four years without a hurricane may have bred a dangerous level of complacency.
TALLAHASSEE (AP) - Florida insurance regulators are failing in their duties if they don't make the state-backed Citizens Property Insurance Corp. raise property insurance rates by 10 percent across the board, a business group lobbyist said today.
Rangers at Acadia National Park insisted Monday that they had done all they could to warn visitors before beauty suddenly turned brutal on a rocky outcropping, when a hurricane-generated wave dragged spectators into the roiling Atlantic and killed a 7-year-old girl.
It is the peak of hurricane season, and forecasters at the National Weather Service in Ruskin are dealing with only their normal duties of predicting daily summer weather rather than also plotting hurricanes. Charlie Paxton, science and operations officer at the Ruskin office, said the lack of hurricanes this season has been influenced by a warming of the sea surface temperatures of the equatorial Pacific Ocean, a weather phenomenon known as El Niño.
Here are highlights from recent projections on how the Hillsborough County economy might fare after a Category 3 hurricane. A Category 3 storm, which is considered major, has winds of 111 mph to 130 mph. Hurricane Jeanne, which hit southeast Florida in September 2004, was a Category 3.
In a state reliant on tourism and housing, a major hurricane could plunge the economy into an even steeper decline. Perhaps we'll be fortunate again. If not, here's a look at the grave effects of a major storm on Florida's historically vibrant economic engines: housing, tourism and jobs.
NEW ORLEANS - Trial is scheduled to start Monday for a former Army Corps of Engineers consultant and a subcontractor charged with conspiring to bribe another consultant for confidential information about a Hurricane Katrina levee project.
Hurricane Ike's winds and massive waves destroyed oil platforms, tossed storage tanks and punctured pipelines. The environmental damage only now is becoming apparent: At least a half million gallons of crude oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico and the marshes, bayous and bays of Louisiana and Texas, according to an analysis of federal data by The Associated Press.
In a small, hot warehouse in Hillsborough County, volunteers packed hurricane relief supplies for people suffering in devastated Haiti.
GALVESTON, Texas - Hundreds of people whose beachfront homes were wrecked by Hurricane Ike may be barred from rebuilding under a little-noticed Texas law. And even those whose houses were spared could end up seeing them condemned by the state.
Forty-four members of a Lakeland staffing agency received American Red Cross volunteer training in one day to help with hurricane relief efforts in Texas.
NEW ORLEANS - New Orleans evacuees scattered across the country were eager to return home after their city was largely spared by Hurricane Gustav, but Mayor Ray Nagin warned they may have to wait in shelters and motels a few days longer.
TALLAHASSEE - Brevard County storm victims can receive individual federal assistance under a new presidential declaration.
The lingering tropical moisture that will spark thunderstorms this afternoon over the Tampa Bay area should be the last effects of Tropical Storm Fay.
Alan Stephens woke up this morning to find his oak tree lying across the corner of his house, courtesy of Tropical Storm Fay.
MELBOURNE As if a fourth straight day of rain from Tropical Storm Fay wasn't enough, weary residents are now dealing with quintessentially Floridian fallout: alligators, snakes and other critters driven from their swampy lairs into flooded streets, backyards and doorsteps.
Tropical Storm Fay has finally started its third slow traipse across Florida, this time aiming for the northern part of the state.
Fay may return as hurricane
Gov. Charlie Crist sent a letter to President Bush this afternoon requesting an emergency declaration to cover Tropical Storm Fay's emergence as a "catastrophic flooding event" in east central and northern Florida, particularly Brevard County.
Gulf Coast communities are handing out more and more tags that residents can hang from their rearview mirrors as identification to re-enter towns and cities after mandatory evacuations.
Florida is busy assessing the effects of Tropical Storm Fay and bracing for further damage should the storm make its third landfall in the state.
HAMILTON, Bermuda (AP) -- Tropical Storm Bertha headed back out over open ocean and away from the U.S. mainland Tuesday after it battered Bermuda, knocking out electricity to thousands on the Atlantic tourist island.
TAMPA - For animal control officers more accustomed to dogs or cats, a pony -- not even a full-grown horse -- is a bit larger than the critters they normally encounter.
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