Ian housing extended
La Niña arriving during the upcoming hurricane season might mean wilder waters, temporary housing is extended again to hundreds of Hurricane Ian victims, FEMA reports on its response to last year’s storms and efforts to do better, …
Plus, hurricane “opportunities”
Mexico’s surprisingly devastating Hurricane Otis proves that predicting hurricane intensification can be a tricky business, the three-week countdown begins to the end of the official Atlantic hurricane season that appears to have petered-out, plus the spoils of …
Record ocean and gulf temps encourage hurricanes
Going into this morning, the National Hurricane Center is tracking not one, but a total of five systems in the Atlantic, Caribbean, and Gulf of Mexico. The tropical disturbance in the Gulf is …
Insurability crisis looming
AccuWeather ups its Atlantic hurricane season forecast, Gallagher Re warns of a looming insurability crisis due to a big increase in storm losses, plus a new report says hurricanes are getting wetter – and costlier for insurance …
Local officials consider another $5,000 per household
Federal disaster money is on the way to help Broward County’s recent record flooding with a potential local supplement now being discussed as well, new money is released to help stormwater and wastewater …
Plus, another condo building evacuation
Florida asks for a federal disaster declaration for the Ft. Lauderdale flooding, another condominium building deemed structurally unsafe is ordered evacuated, and a sneak peek at the forecast for the upcoming Atlantic hurricane season. It’s …
Supply chain delays could slow response
This has certainly been an unusually quiet Atlantic hurricane season so far, with no named storms in August for only the third time since 1950. We finally had the short-lived Hurricane Danielle in the …
Solar panels, skylights add risk
If this hurricane season, already predicted to be above average, churns out greater than Category 3 storms, there’s a whole lot of roofs that will suffer damage around the Gulf Coast. Property analytics firm Arturo …
Hurricane season, evacuation preps underway
Almost a month into hurricane season, the tropics are quiet but all major forecasting services are predicting an above-average storm season this year with a new prediction that the troublesome “Loop Current” has returned early …
Mother Nature paid an unusual visit last week to Gaylord, Michigan, a town of 4,200 residents about 230 miles northwest of Detroit. In fact, northern Michigan has rarely seen a tornado event like the one that hit this small town …