All the headlines from our Windstorm Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 20 2007 // Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger says the 2007 storm season in Kansas so far has accumulated $230 million in losses of insured property and crops during the month of May 2007.“We experienced a terrible...
Jun 18 2007 // The National Hurricane Center has identified the names that will be used during 2007 to designate storms. Names of storms that are particularly destructive or deadly are retired and replaced. Names beginning with the...
Jun 18 2007 // 8 Storms of 2007State has until October to decide on no-fault’s fate8 Fla. extends police, firefighter workers’ comp benefitsEases eligibility for first responders10 S.C. reforms workers’ comp anti-fraud,...
Jun 18 2007 // It took O’Charley’s regional operations director in Hattiesburg, Miss., most of a week to get in touch with the restaurant chain’s Nashville headquarters after Hurricane Katrina pounded the Gulf Coast two...
Jun 18 2007 // The National Hurricane Center has identified the names that will be used during 2007 to designate storms. Names of storms that are particularly destructive or deadly are retired and replaced. Names beginning with the...
Jun 15 2007 // The federal government has extended aid to private property owners to help repair damage caused by a powerful nor’easter in April.The decision, announced by Gov. M. Jodi Rell’s office, is a reversal of the...
Jun 12 2007 // It took O’Charley’s regional operations director in Hattiesburg, Miss., most of a week to get in touch with the restaurant chain’s Nashville, Tenn. headquarters after Hurricane Katrina pounded the Gulf...
Jun 12 2007 // Insurance Australia Group said it has already received “over 6,000 claims” from the storms that have battered the coast of the State of New South Wales (See IJ web site June 11). IAG said it expects to receive...
Jun 12 2007 // Someone has been submitting fictional reports of severe weather to the National Weather Service, causing unnecessary alerts and frightening people.The areas affected have included Milwaukee, La Crosse, Chicago, and...
Jun 11 2007 // Officials urged thousands of Australians to flee their homes as rising floodwaters from three days of wild weather threatened to wash away their homes.Nine people have been killed since the storms began Friday near the...
Jun 7 2007 // Iowa Gov. Chet Culver said he will request federal funds to help eastern Iowa recover from tornadoes that struck last week.Culver said he will seek Presidential Disaster Declarations for Louisa and Muscatine counties, both...
Jun 6 2007 // Casino owners in South Mississippi were scheduled to meet Monday with the state Gaming Commission, local government officials and emergency personnel to ensure plans are in place if a hurricane targets the Gulf Coast.The...
Jun 6 2007 // The National Hurricane Center has identified the names that will be used during 2007 to designate storms. Names of storms that are particularly destructive or deadly are retired and replaced. Names beginning with the...
Jun 5 2007 // For more than 200 years, the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse has guided sailors through the “graveyard of the Atlantic” — the shallow shores of North Carolina’s Outer Banks. But not even the nation’s...
Jun 4 2007 // South Carolina’s Clemson University researchers are looking for ways to reduce damage in hurricanes done to small structures – the ones that people live in.“There are lots of labs all over the country...
Jun 4 2007 // Tropical Storm Barry, since downgraded to a tropical depression, brought heavy rain to a parched Florida early Saturday, along with strong winds and heavy surf along the state’s Gulf coast.Rain was falling throughout...
Jun 4 2007 // When Category 5 Hurricane Andrew damaged or destroyed more than 125,000 Florida homes and left about 250,000 people homeless in south Miami-Dade County, the destruction was born from a mix of 165 mph winds, outdated...
Jun 1 2007 // A state program to help Arkansans put safe rooms in their homes for protection from tornadoes and storms is becoming so popular officials say they have run out of money months before the budget year ends in July.The...
May 30 2007 // If you think gasoline prices are high now, consider the eye-popping possibilities if another monster storm pummels the Gulf of Mexico this hurricane season, the way Katrina and Rita battered the petroleum-rich waters in...
May 23 2007 // Some Gulf Coast residents are preparing for future hurricane seasons by rebuilding with the help of a North Carolina company that specializes in storm-resistant homes.Security Building Group LLC, a Sneads Ferry, N.C....