Oct 24

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Hurricane Wilma, the eighth hurricane to hit Florida in just over 14 months, plowed across the Sunshine State Monday, downing power lines, bending palm trees and lashing rain across the peninsula with winds sustained at 125-mph.

Oct 14

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Case Study: Galveston, Texas

The devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina will reshape the communities along the Gulf Coast for generations to come, but as the city of Galveston, Texas can attest, it not the first time a major storm has changed the direction of…

Drawing upon the harsh lessons of Hurricane Katrina, hundreds of thousands of Texans -- many from Houston -- continued to evacuate the southeast corner of the state Thursday as Hurricane Rita spun toward the Gulf Coast.

Hurricane Jeanne was downgraded to a tropical storm as it moved into Georgia on Monday after pounding Florida, where residents were still struggling to recover from three other hurricanes that battered the state over the course of six weeks.