All the headlines from our Windstorm Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 25 2021 // South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster wants the state’s electric providers to review their power grids to see if they could face problems like what happened in Texas during the recent winter storm.McMaster sent a letter...
Feb 21 2021 // Insurers could suffer record first-quarter catastrophe losses after the historic Texas winter storm, which crippled the state’s electrical grid and caused extensive property damage including collapsed roofs and...
Feb 19 2021 // Winter storms that dumped additional snow and ice on the Deep South plunged more than 300,000 homes and businesses into darkness early Thursday and left roads impassable across a wide area.While temperatures were expected...
Feb 19 2021 // U.S. property insurers are bracing for claims for damage from collapsing roofs, bursting pipes and lost business as Texas takes stock of its losses from a winter storm that has crippled its electrical grid.Insurers’...
Feb 19 2021 // North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper said Wednesday that the state must learn from the surprise tornado that struck Ocean Isle Beach with little or no warning, leaving three people dead and 10 injured.The governor surveyed the...
Feb 18 2021 // Under legislation passed by the Oklahoma House of Representatives, new or renovated hotels and motels would be required to tornado safety information in every room and common areas.Rep. Denise Crosswhite Hader, R-Piedmont,...
Feb 18 2021 // The massive winter storm that barreled through the mid-section of the United States and across the South in mid-February, hitting Texas particularly hard, will generate billions in insured losses, according to commentary...
Feb 18 2021 // The National Weather Service confirmed Tuesday that a tornado struck an area of southwest Georgia where one home was destroyed and several others got damaged. The weather service’s office in Tallahassee, Florida,...
Feb 18 2021 // It was late Monday night when the power went out at Jesse Clemmons’ home in coastal North Carolina. He went outside to start up the generator and heard a loud roar approaching from the woods.“By that time, I...
Feb 16 2021 // A tornado in Florida’s Tampa Bay region peeled off rooftops, snapped trees and roused residents from bed early Sunday morning.The National Weather Service said there were no serious injuries reported from the twister...
Feb 16 2021 // A winter storm dropped snow and ice and sent temperatures plunging across the southern Plains, prompting a power emergency in Texas a day after conditions canceled flights and impacted traffic across large swaths of the...
Feb 16 2021 // Ice and freezing rain from a winter storm moving through the mid-Atlantic region knocked down trees and power lines and left tens of thousands of people without power Saturday.Dominion Energy reported some 130,000...
Feb 11 2021 // Another winter storm brought additional snowfall to the Northeastern U.S. on Tuesday on top of a major snowstorm that hit the region Sunday.The snow totals are expected to be far less than the storm that pushed through the...
Feb 9 2021 // Construction has begun on a $32 million project to bring back hundreds of acres of marsh to a part of southwest Louisiana where storms, sinking and other factors have turned thousands of acres to open water, the...
Feb 8 2021 // President Joe Biden approved a disaster declaration for Maryland and ordered federal assistance for recovery effort in areas affected by Tropical Storm Isaias in August. Federal funding will be available to state and local...
Jan 29 2021 // A tornado touched down near the airport in Florida’s capital city Wednesday, flipping at least one small plane over and knocking out weather radar before moving east into residential neighborhoods, the National...
Jan 28 2021 // James Scott has never lived anywhere other than a two-story house on hilly Darlene Drive north of Birmingham. Home will never be the same after a tornado smashed the structure into pieces, killed another teen and left the...
Jan 25 2021 // Texas regulators in early January rejected a request for a 5% rate increase by the state’s insurer of last resort for wind and hail for properties along the Texas coast.The Texas Department of Insurance denied the...
Jan 22 2021 // The majority of complaint Louisiana insurance regulators have received in relation to the historic 2020 hurricane season concern homeowners insurance.The Louisiana Department of Insurance (LDI) reports that nearly 80...
Jan 12 2021 // In its recently published report to the legislature, the windstorm insurer of last resort for properties along the Texas coast has proposed several operational changes, including one that would allow it to develop...