All the headlines from our Windstorm Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 11 2012 // Texas top insurance regulator has named eight industry professionals to participate in an advisory group to work on issues related to windstorm insurance along the state’s coast.The Texas Department of Insurance...
Jun 8 2012 // Habitat for Humanity is planning to build nine houses in Madison for southern Indiana residents displaced by tornadoes.Madison’s local planning commission recommended that the city council rezone 1.25 acres of former...
Jun 6 2012 // A man and his two adult sons died when a sudden, powerful storm slammed into a mobile home in southeast Missouri, officials said as weather officials began to investigate if the damage was caused by a tornado or straight...
Jun 6 2012 // The city of Hampton, Virginia, has declared a local emergency for the areas affected by last Friday’s tornado.A tornado caused over $4.3 million in damages in Hampton, Va., last Friday. Photo credit: the city of...
Jun 6 2012 // In many ways Ireland is a “microcosm for Europe,” said Danny McCoy, the Director General of the Irish Business & Employer’s Confederation (IBEC) at the EIF Forum. He described the present situation as...
Jun 5 2012 // Owners and tenants of a Springfield, Mass., condominium complex damaged by last year’s tornadoes have filed a lawsuit against the city, alleging officials prematurely ordered the demolition of a building, robbing...
Jun 4 2012 // Tornadoes swept through several counties in Virginia, Pennsylvania and Maryland last Friday, knocking down trees and power lines and damaging dozens of structures and homes. Here are the latest reports from The Associated...
Jun 4 2012 // Warnings sent directly to cell phones and broadcast over the airwaves can provide a detailed heads-up before dangerous storms. But for many parts of Tornado Alley, storm sirens remain so ubiquitous that one official says...
Jun 4 2012 // Colorado State University researchers on Friday raised their forecast for the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season to 13 tropical storms, with five hurricanes and two major hurricanes.In April they forecast 10 tropical storms,...
Jun 4 2012 // Massachusetts officials said that insurers so far paid out $200 million in claims related to devastating tornadoes in western and central Massachusetts that occurred on June 1, 2011.The Massachusetts Insurance Division...
Jun 4 2012 // Major League Baseball and a charitable foundation run by players are working with Habitat for Humanity to build nine homes for the tornado-ravaged communities of Joplin, Mo., and Tuscaloosa, Ala., with more than half of...
Jun 4 2012 // Florida may not have enough money to pay off hurricane insurance claims if a big storm hits this year.An advisory panel recently concluded that the state may fall nearly $2 billion short of the total needed to cover all of...
Jun 1 2012 // A year after a tornado downed its steeple, The First Church of Monson Congregational in Monson, Mass., is rebounding.Photo credit: The First Church of Monson CongregationalThe town’s oldest church became a disaster...
Jun 1 2012 // Oklahoma’s Emergency Price Stabilization Act is now in effect for 35 Oklahoma counties after Gov. Mary Fallin declared a state of emergency due to severe storms, straight line winds and flooding that began on May 29,...
May 30 2012 // A major hail storm last month in Kentucky is estimated to have caused $175 million in insured losses and damages when balls of ice as large as baseballs battered cars and homes and knocked out power to thousands.The PSC...
May 24 2012 // Florida Gov. Rick Scott will have the final say whether to cancel the Republican National Convention in the event of a hurricane.The convention where Mitt Romney is expected to be formally nominated as the Republican...
May 23 2012 // Officials say Maui and Kauai will get a combined $400,000 to clean up damage from heavy storms that hit Hawaii in March. The money will fund 20 temporary jobs for people to clean and repair damaged homes, land and public...
May 23 2012 // Massachusetts officials said that insurers so far paid out $200 million in claims related to devastating tornadoes in western and central Massachusetts that occurred on June 1, 2011.The Massachusetts Insurance Division...
May 22 2012 // “One of the eeriest things was … the lack of noise. There were no birds. There was no sound. There was no vegetation. There was nothing. There were no dogs. There were no cars. It was just mounds of rubble,”...
May 22 2012 // It may not be much of a storm compared to what may follow, but Alberto, which formed off the coast of North Carolina, has become the first named storm of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season.However, Alberto poses no threat...