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A week after Hurricane Helene tore through the U.S. Southeast and devastated western North Carolina with heavy rains and severe flooding, satellite images are showing the extent of the damage ...
Satellite images show the extent of the damage from Hurricane Milton, which spawned tornadoes across Florida and struck the state as a Category 3 hurricane.. The fatal storm surge that forecasters ...
The damage wrought by Hurricane Helene was especially extensive in western North Carolina, a region far from the Florida coast where the system made landfall as a Category 4 storm.
Public school districts across North Carolina are canceling school ahead of flooding expected to accompany Hurricane Helene’s arrival. All public schools in the Triangle will be closed to ...
The 1935 Labor Day hurricane was the most intense hurricane to make landfall on the country, having struck the Florida Keys with a pressure of 892 mbar.It was one of only seven hurricanes to move ashore as a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane scale; the others were "Okeechobee" in 1928, Karen in 1962, Camille in 1969, Andrew in 1992, Michael in 2018, and Yutu in 2018, which ...
In 1985, the Fox Point Hurricane Barrier was utilized, sparing downtown Providence from being inundated in two feet of water from storm surge brought by Hurricane Gloria, keeping the city dry. In 1991, the Barrier spared the city from Hurricane Bob, which would have covered downtown in four feet of water. The savings has been estimated at ...
Minutes after the 2 p.m. National Hurricane Center advisory winds had climbed to 120 mph to hit the new threshold. Helene was about 195 miles southwest of Tampa but its winds extended outward up ...
Hightower High School is a secondary school (grades 9–12) located at 3333 Hurricane Lane, Missouri City, Texas, United States, adjacent to The Fort Bend Parkway Toll Road. Hightower is administered by Fort Bend Independent School District and its mascot is Poseidon , but they are known as the Hightower Hurricanes.