Pres. Biden tours hurricane-ravaged Florida, announces $600 million in Florida resiliency projects

President Joe Biden on Sunday toured areas of Florida ravaged by the back-to-back hurricanes and announced federal funding for projects to strengthen the electrical grid and a "whole government" ... Read More

3 hurricanes battered Florida’s Big Bend. Recovery is still far from over

STEINHATCHEE — The roads into town are still lined with wreckage, more than 10months after Hurricane Helene. Fallen trees. A toaster oven wedged in a branch. A child’s sneaker abandoned in a driveway. Read More

'When the Gulf came ashore' — How St. Tammany Parish survived and changed after Hurricane Katrina

“It kept getting larger. I never had seen a storm of that magnitude and that size,” said former St. Tammany Parish President Kevin Davis. It wasn’t the levees. It was the wind, the surge, and the ... Read More

Love Bombing Local Businesses: A mission to revive Florida’s West Coast after the last year’s hurricanes

BLOOM (TAMPA) – The west coast of Florida is still reeling from last year’s back-to-back hurricanes, and while the storms have long passed, their aftermath continues to weigh heavily on the small ... Read More

Extreme Weather Survivors Share the Tools That Helped Them Get Through Disaster

Hurricane Ida unexpectedly flooded Sherley Desrouleaux’s New Jersey home. When her fridge cut out, Desrouleaux found herself trying to keep her mother’s insulin cold and her family fed. The solution? Read More

Hurricane Erin's winds drop to Category 3; Outer Banks brace for dangerous storm surge

Editor's note: This page summarizes news on Erin for Monday, Aug. 18. For the latest news on Hurricane Erin, visit USA TODAY's coverage for Tuesday, Aug. 19. Hurricane Erin fluctuated in intensity on ... Read More