WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's administration has ended a FEMA program heavily relied upon by Louisiana that paid to elevate homes, build levees and do other work to lessen damage from storms, ...

Hurricane Katrina, which hit the Gulf Coast on August 29, 2005, was one of the deadliest and most destructive hurricanes in United States history (George W. Bush Presidential Library, n.d.). The ...

Chaisson noted that when Hurricane Rita passed by in 2005 ... pumps and to pave the top of levees to provide more than one evacuation route. “We’re just going to have to scratch somewhere ...

Evacuation orders have already been issued in many coastal ... “Milton is the strongest hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico by either wind or pressure since Hurricane Rita in 2005,” Klotzbach said. The ...

Evacuation orders may arrive with little notice. Knowing your zone and having a solid evacuation plan is critical.

DeSantis, first lady hold news conference at Fruitland Park Elementary An evacuation sign stands in Cedar Key, Fla., on Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023. Idalia strengthened into a hurricane Tuesday and ...

Its staggeringly low minimum pressure of 895 mb ranked fourth-lowest on record, tying 2005’s Hurricane Rita. It boiled with tornadoes, 45 in all. And from its earliest embryonic stirrings in the ...

Find out if you should evacuate before a storm with this tool An evacuation sign stands in Cedar Key, Fla., on Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023. Idalia strengthened into a hurricane Tuesday and barreled ...

This ties Hurricane Rita of 2005 for the fourth-lowest minimum central pressure in an Atlantic hurricane. The lower central pressures include 882 mb in Wilma in 2005, 888 mb in Gilbert in 1988 ...