Tag: hurricane

When Hurricane Laura hit last week, all I could think about was Katrina. The world considers August 29 the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. For New Orleans residents like myself, that ...

Who isn’t mourning the waning weeks of summer? It’s the season most people look forward to all year. Long days on the beach, 9 p.m. sunsets, perfect tomatoes: What more ...

In early June 2011, NOAA Fisheries researchers and colleagues placed satellite tags on 26 loggerhead sea turtles in the Mid-Atlantic Bight. The tagging was part of ongoing studies of loggerhead ...

The worst storms loom large in the memory. The Great Galveston Hurricane nearly wiped the bustling coastal town off the map in 1900, killing somewhere between 6,000 and 12,000 people. ...

Greg Hilburn, Monroe News-Star Published 4:56 p.m. ET Aug. 30, 2020 | Updated 6:28 p.m. ET Aug. 30, 2020CLOSE Hurricane Laura damage: Victims on whether they regret staying or leaving ...

Hurricane Laura—one of the most powerful storms ever to hit the United States—made landfall early this morning, just a few hours after the end of the Republican National Convention’s third ...

Before Hurricane Laura made landfall as a Category 4 storm, meteorologists warned that it would hit industrial coastal cities like Port Arthur, Texas, especially hard. Public officials along the Texas-Louisiana ...

Aug. 29 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump traveled Saturday to Louisiana and Texas hard hit by Hurricane Laura as the death toll rose in the two states to 15 . ...

Aug. 27 (UPI) -- Hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses were without electricity in Louisiana and Texas on Thursday and at least six people died after Tropical Storm Laura ...

A rare relief in the 2020 grind: The worst-case scenario hasn't yet come to pass with Hurricane Laura.The state of play: The storm surge in Louisiana was 9 to 10 ...