CHRISTIANSTED, U.S. Virgin Islands — Forecasters say a weakening Omar has become a tropical storm again, far from land in the Atlantic Ocean. ...more

October 17, 2008

Texas and Louisiana began a massive recovery effort Saturday, including searching for the stranded and missing, after Hurricane Ike, a colossal storm stretching about 600 miles, pulverized the Gulf Coast with maximum winds of about 100 mph as it flattened houses, ripped the glass windows from downtown office buildings and left a wide swath of flooding and devastation in its wake. ...more

September 14, 2008

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. ...more

August 20, 2008