All the headlines from our Hurricane Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 4 2008 // Millions fled the Gulf Coast in fear of Hurricane Gustav, billed as the apocalyptic “mother of all storms.” It didn’t deliver. Now, with three other storms lining up in the Atlantic, some fear people...
Sep 4 2008 // The Ohio National Guard is sending 1,500 troops to Louisiana to help with the cleanup following Hurricane Gustav. The Ohio group joins Missouri in providing guardsman the hurricane ravaged area. Guard spokesman James Sims...
Sep 3 2008 // According to catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide, storm development in the tropical Atlantic was even more active on Tuesday than it was on Monday. AIR noted that “shortly after Gustav came ashore in...
Sep 3 2008 // The ground floor of the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino on Biloxi’s casino row was flooded during the storm surge from Gustav and wind-whipped water continued to splash into its parking garage on the afternoon of Sept....
Sep 3 2008 // A team of 350 catastrophe adjusters and support personnel with USAA are headed to areas of Louisiana affected by Hurricane Gustav.The company’s catastrophe headquarters are planned for Baton Rouge and two satellite...
Sep 3 2008 // New Orleans can get back to its comeback.Traumatized after losing their homes when Hurricane Katrina’s floodwaters broke through the levees that protect this city, Hurricane Gustav ended up a mere interruption in...
Sep 3 2008 // After more than 24 hours on road, a 25-vehicle convoy from the Missouri National Guard arrived on Monday, September 1 in northern Louisiana only hours after Hurricane Gustav hit land farther south, skirting much of New...
Sep 2 2008 // Some North Dakotans are heading to the Gulf Coast, to provide help in areas hit by Hurricane Gustav. Randy Fischer with Ringdahl EMS says ambulances and emergency response personnel from Jamestown and Lisbon are part of a...
Sep 2 2008 // The good news is that Hurricane Gustav has been downgraded to a Tropical Depression as it moves slowly across northwest Louisiana.The bad news is that Tropical Storms Hanna, Ike and Josephine are gaining speed, according...
Sep 2 2008 // Hurricane Gustav could trigger insurance claims of up to $10 billion, according to early computer-modeled estimates of damage from the storm, but at least one analyst thinks the final tab could be lower.Gustav, which made...
Sep 2 2008 // According to catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide, storm development in the tropical Atlantic was even more active on Tuesday than it was on Monday.Shortly after Gustav came ashore in Louisiana on Monday, Hanna...
Sep 2 2008 // Hurricane Gustav, which came ashore southwest of New Orleans on Monday morning, is expected to trigger significant insurance claims but far less than record-setting Katrina did three years ago.“This is a significant,...
Sep 2 2008 // A still-largely deserted New Orleans Tuesday prepared to take stock of damage from Hurricane Gustav after rebuilt levees appeared to hold off a repeat of the flooding caused by Katrina three years earlier.Gustav roared...
Sep 2 2008 // Major chemical makers in the U.S. said Tuesday that initial inspections indicate only slight damage to those facilities that were affected by Hurricane Gustav, but companies are still uncertain about when production is...
Sep 2 2008 // One risk modeling firm estimates that insured losses to onshore properties in the U.S. are between $2 billion and $4.5 billion, with an expected loss of $3 billion due to Hurricane Gustav. According to AIR Worldwide...
Sep 2 2008 // Although Gustav is slowly blowing itself out over Oklahoma, Miami’s National Hurricane Center still has a lot of work to do. Its currently tracking a hurricane, a tropical storm, a tropical depression and two...
Sep 1 2008 // With hurricane season halfway over for 2008, Louisiana has so far dodged the bullet but Texas has taken on two warning shots with Hurricane Dolly and Tropical Storm Edouard. As such storms go, neither packed a lot of...
Sep 1 2008 // During the 2008 hurricane season, Texas has so far been hit by Hurricane Dolly and Tropical Storm Edouard. The Louisiana coastline, however, has been spared. That state even dodged massive flooding from Tropical Storm Fay...
Aug 29 2008 // “Gustav looks set to make landfall early next week as it continues to intensify along its path. Forecasts suggest that it will strike on the US Gulf coast on Tuesday morning, potentially as a category 2 or 3...
Aug 29 2008 // According to the office of the mayor, the city of New Orleans has revised its schedule of events commemorating the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina today, Friday, Aug.29 due to the threat and ongoing preparation for...