Coastal homeowners stagger under insurance costs
GULF SHORES, Ala. -- When Stan Virden moved into his 2,400-square-foot house overlooking a rock-lined canal in 1996, he paid less than $1,000 a year for homeowners insurance.
Tracking the Tropics
Tropical Storm Barry forms off Mexican coast
VERACRUZ, Mexico -- Tropical Storm Barry formed off Mexico's Gulf Coast on Wednesday, prompting Mexican authorities to ready hundreds of shelters.
How homeowner insurance rates have spiked
Nationwide, an average homeowner paid $909 for homeowner insurance coverage in 2010, up 36 percent from 2003. Inflation rose 19 percent during the same period. Here's a look at what homeowners in states bordering the Atlantic Ocean or Gulf of Mexico paid, ranked by percentage change since 2003. The totals do not include flood insurance, which is sold separately under a federal program.
National Hurricane Center gears up for 2013 season
WEST MIAMI-DADE, Fla. -- The start of hurricane season kicks off Saturday and NHC forecasters are getting ready for what's expected to be an active season of storms.
Furloughs among officials' storm season worries
MIAMI -- While urging coastal residents to prepare for the Atlantic hurricane season, federal officials said Friday that they were doing what they could to get ready for a storm season that includes furloughs in the agencies that forecast and respond to tropical storms.
Gov. Scott, Mayor Gimenez hold hurricane news conference
DORAL, Fla. -- Governor Rick Scott and Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez spoke at a news a conference emphasizing the importance of preparing for hurricane season.
Barbara becomes hurricane off Mexican coast
OAXACA, Mexico -- Barbara rose to hurricane strength Wednesday as it steamed toward a sparsely populated stretch of Mexico's southern Pacific coast, where it was expected to quickly make landfall.
Hurricane watch in Mexico as tropical storm nears
MIAMI -- A hurricane watch has been issued for a portion of Mexico's coast as Tropical Storm Barbara approaches in the Pacific.
7 years without storms but Fla. rates keep rising
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- It's been nearly eight years since Hurricane Wilma raked the southern end of Florida and caused billions in damages, the last of eight hurricanes to hit the state in 2004 and 2005.
Hurricane center: Beware of the storm surge
MIAMI -- During a hurricane, storm surge is one of the greatest threats to life and land, yet many people don't understand the dire warnings from forecasters to get out of its way. So this season, they hope to offer easy-to-understand, color-coded maps and change the way they talk to the public.
NOAA predicts another busy hurricane season
COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- Federal forecasters are predicting yet another busy hurricane season.
Sandy retired from tropical storm name list
MIAMI -- Sandy is being retired from the list of tropical storm names because of the catastrophic damage its massive size and strength caused along the East Coast last year.
Sandy criticism prompts change in storm warnings
MIAMI -- Responding to criticism after Superstorm Sandy, the National Hurricane Center said Thursday it would change the way it warns people about tropical storms that morph into something else.
Weather Service looks at hurricane warnings
MIAMI -- The National Weather Service is considering how it issues hurricane watches and warnings.
2012 hurricane season another for the record books
MIAMI -- The 2012 hurricane season has come to an end and it's another one for the record books, above and beyond the destruction of Sandy.
Airports and stock exchange reopen; NJ devastated
NEW YORK -- Two major airports reopened and the New York Stock Exchange got back to business Wednesday, while across the river in New Jersey, National Guardsmen rushed to feed and rescue flood victims two days after Superstorm Sandy struck.
Sandy shuts down Northeast air travel
UNDATED -- Superstorm Sandy grounded more than 18,000 flights across the Northeast and the globe, and it will take days before travel gets back to normal.
Search for tall ship captain goes into its 3rd day
ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. -- The search for the captain of a tall ship that sank in the Atlantic during Sandy is in its third day.
Coast Guard searches on for tall ship's captain
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- The Coast Guard will search a second night for the captain of a doomed tall ship that sank during Hurricane Sandy.
Sandy's death toll climbs; millions without power
NEW YORK -- Millions of people from Maine to the Carolinas awoke Tuesday without electricity, and an eerily quiet New York City was all but closed off by car, train and air as superstorm Sandy steamed inland, still delivering punishing wind and rain. The U.S. death toll climbed to 38, many of the victims killed by falling trees.
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