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Lady Frances, a cheerful canine companion of undetermined origin and age, is Raquel Aluisy's poster pup for the importance of hurricane preparedness.
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Important online resources and telephone numbers in the event of a storm.
The Category 4 storm is forecast to run parallel to the U.S. coast, but any small shift in the predicted track could send it onto land.
So far forecasts do not bring the season's fifth storm close to Florida.
Hurricane Bill has weakened to a Category 2 storm over the Atlantic as it nears Bermuda on track to pass between the island and the U.S. East Coast.
Bermuda is under a hurricane watch as Hurricane Bill nears the island with its winds slightly weakened but still blowing at near 120 mph.
Hurricane Bill howled over the open Atlantic as a dangerous Category 4 storm Wednesday, and it could be energized by warmer waters as it moves north.
Reports from a NOAA hurricane hunter plane indicate that Bill has strengthened to a Category 3 storm and had maximum sustained winds near 125 mph.
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.
CHRISTIANSTED, U.S. Virgin Islands (AP) -- Hurricane Omar has strengthened to a monstrous Category 3 storm with with top winds of 105 mph as it barrels toward the U.S. and British Virgin Islands.
CHRISTIANSTED, U.S. Virgin Islands - Hurricane Omar was quickly moving away from the northern Leeward Islands early Thursday after crossing over them as a major Category 3 storm.
More than 76,000 damage claims from Hurricane Ike have been filed with the Texas-backed windstorm insurance association, which expects to pay billions of dollars to policy holders for losses.
MIAMI - The National Hurricane Center says Subtropical Storm Laura has formed in the north central Atlantic Ocean.
GALVESTON, Texas - Thousands of residents streamed back to their storm-battered island city Wednesday, many for the first time since fleeing the wrath of Hurricane Ike nearly two weeks ago.
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.
GALVESTON, Texas - 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.
HOUSTON - Tens of thousands of residents first hunkered down to wait for Hurricane Ike's brutal punch. Those survivors on the wrecked Texas coast must now wait again - for food, water and ice, for the electricity to return to their homes, for that first hot meal and shower.
WASHINGTON - President Bush is making his third trip to survey Gulf Coast hurricane damage in two weeks, and he says he fully expects to meet plenty of frustrated people when he gets to Texas.
GALVESTON, Texas- As teams persisted in the biggest search and rescue operation in Texas history, a new phase of the disaster wrought by Hurricane Ike was only beginning while thousands of people faced long stays in crowded shelters because their homes were damaged or destroyed.
Two airlines canceled six departures today from Tampa International Airport to Houston airports and halted three Houston arrivals because of weather-related problems in Texas that Hurricane Ike is causing.
Hurricane Ike has not affected Florida's supply of fuel thus far, and no shortages have been reported, a state energy spokeswoman said this morning.
Authorities in the Houston area and along the Southeast Texas Gulf Coast ordered hundreds of thousands of people to evacuate Thursday as Hurricane Ike lumbered toward the coast and threatened to grow even stronger.
Hurricane Ike hurtled towards the Turks and Caicos and the southern Bahamas on Saturday as a Category 2 storm with winds sustained at 110 mph.
Hanna made landfall near Myrtle Beach early this morning. Meanwhile, the Keys are ordering tourists to evacuate ahead of Ike.
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