TAMPA, Fla. − Hurricane Milton howled across the Florida Panhandle on Thursday, tearing a path of destruction from the Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic as it flooded neighborhoods, destroyed homes, tore the roof off a major sports venue and toppled a massive crane into an office building. In downtown Tampa early Thursday, fierce winds…
The storm that was expected to bring heavy rain to Florida intensified into Hurricane Milton on Sunday, and the National Hurricane Center is expecting it to become a category 3 hurricane by Wednesday when it lands on Florida’s Gulf Coast. Milton had sustained winds of 85 mph in the NHC’s 8 p.m. advisory on Sunday,…
With the federal response to Hurricane Helene becoming a major focus of the presidential campaign in the home stretch, President Joe Biden’s administration continued to push back Sunday against former President Donald Trump’s unfounded claims about storm recovery. Appearing on ABC’s “This Week” Sunday, Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Deanne Criswell said her agency has…
Telling an Asheville volunteer leader “we’re here for the long haul,” Vice President Kamala Harris visited North Carolina on Saturday to be briefed on the damage the state suffered from Tropical Storm Helene and meet people dealing with the aftermath of its catastrophic flooding. The record high water tore apart major districts of Asheville and…
WASHINGTON – Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday in North Carolina praised the federal, state and local governments coming together to help communities recover from the catastrophic damage wrought by Hurricane Helene. Harris, the 2024 Democratic presidential nominee, said the work to bring resources together from all levels of the government are what produces results….
BURNSVILLE, North Carolina ‒ The ongoing loss of cell phone service in Hurricane Helene-impacted areas raises questions for survivors about safety, missed emergency warnings and the inability to reassure far-flung friends and family. Helene knocked out power to wide swaths of the South with both high winds and flooding. The destruction also destroyed cell phone…
WASHINGTON – Another presidential election blown around by a hurricane. In terms of politics, Vice President Kamala Harris and President Joe Biden are hoping that recovery from Hurricane Helene will resemble the federal government’s response to Hurricane Sandy in 2012 – a fairly smooth process that did credit to the last Democratic-led White House in…
ASHEVILLE, N.C. — If she had known the rivers would swallow whole towns and neighbors would be swept away, Lindsey Miller would have better prepared – or left her home altogether. Her home near Boone, North Carolina, survived but there was no power, cell service or water. Some neighbors filled buckets from a nearby river…
Aerial footage is capturing the extent of Hurricane Helene’s cataclysmic impact on Asheville, North Carolina. Across the Southeast, the storm has killed at least 200 people since its historic landfall along Florida’s Big Bend region Sept. 27. Almost 1 million homes and businesses are without power throughout the Carolinas, Florida, Georgia and Virginia while thousands remain…
When Helene inundated and isolated communities across the Southeast, it knocked out cell phone service in Canton, North Carolina at the moment residents needed it most, according to the town’s mayor, Zeb Smathers. The loss of service “crippled” the town’s ability to communicate during and after a devastating storm, leaving residents few options to get…