All the headlines from our Windstorm Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Jan 11 2021 // A tornado swept through a portion of a city in suburban Houston, displacing about 500 people from a damaged apartment complex, officials said on Jan. 7.A strong storm swept through Texas City around 6 p.m. on Jan. 6,...
Jan 11 2021 // Texas regulators have denied 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 (TDI) has rejected the...
Jan 11 2021 // One Lake Charles, La., woman credits the power of social media in getting one step closer to having her hurricane-damaged home repaired after weeks of roadblocks with her insurance claim.Tara Parks recently posted several...
Jan 7 2021 // A report prepared by Willis Towers Watson showing the potential impact of increased coastal building standards on premium rates for Texas’ property insurer of last resort for coastal counties is now available for...
Dec 22 2020 // Federal disaster assistance has been made available to the state of Oklahoma to supplement state, tribal and local recovery efforts in the areas affected by severe winter storms from Oct. 26-29, 2020, according to...
Dec 18 2020 // A tornado damaged vehicles and buildings on Wednesday while leaving thousands without power in Florida’s Tampa Bay area, authorities said.Most of the damage was in Pinellas County, north of St. Petersburg, the Tampa...
Dec 18 2020 // A major snowstorm rolled into the Northeast on Wednesday at a key moment in the coronavirus pandemic, days after the start of the U.S. vaccination campaign and in the thick of a virus surge that has throngs of people...
Dec 17 2020 // Southwest Louisiana lawmakers on Dec. 16 criticized the insurance industry’s handling of claims from Hurricanes Laura and Delta, describing slow responses, low-balled damage estimates and drones used to assess...
Dec 17 2020 // The family of a man who died from COVID-19 while working at a Tyson pork plant in Storm Lake, Iowa, has filed a lawsuit accusing the company and several plant executives of gross negligence.Michael Everhard, 65, of Fonda,...
Dec 16 2020 // Weather officials say they’re still assessing the effects of a tornado that touched down in Alabama over the weekend.The National Weather Service said Monday that a storm survey team had found preliminary evidence of...