Jacob OglesSeptember 29, 2022
6min0
'This is more similar to Katrina than the Florida storms we are familiar with.'
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Jacob OglesSeptember 29, 2022
A.G. GancarskiAugust 30, 2021
14min964
Florida won't receive the brunt, but NOLA residents took a lashing unlike anything since Katrina.
Guest AuthorJune 18, 2020
9min430
Now more than ever, the U.S. must consider a rational approach to hurricane disaster policy.
Guest AuthorSeptember 16, 2016
5min326
Recent Tropical Storm activity in the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean remind us of one thing — Florida is ground zero for tropical weather activity. In June, parts of Florida’s Gulf Coast became inundated with rain, causing flash flooding, tornado spin-offs and heavy wind as Tropical Storm Colin made landfall in Florida’s Big […]
Associated PressSeptember 8, 2015
5min221
A new but controversial study asks if an end is coming to the busy Atlantic hurricane seasons of recent decades. The Atlantic looks like it is entering in to a new quieter cycle of storm activity, like in the 1970s and 1980s, two prominent hurricane researchers wrote Monday in the journal Nature Geoscience. Scientists at […]
Mitch PerryAugust 28, 2015
5min155
While the nation’s media will focus quite correctly this weekend on the 10-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina hitting New Orleans, anyone remember Hurricane Isaac? (Let’s not even talk about Erika). That was the storm that forced the cancellation of the first day of the 2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa three years ago, making today the third […]
Diane RobertsApril 13, 20157min196
OCCUPIED TALLAHASSEE — The poor? The hell with them. Education? Don’t make me laugh. The environment? Screw it. The 2015 Session is more than halfway through, and your elected representatives have made it clear they really, truly, do not care what you think. They care what NRA gorgon Marion Hammer thinks. And what Tom Feeney […]
Diane RobertsApril 12, 20157min210
OCCUPIED TALLAHASSEE – The poor? The hell with them. Education? Don’t make me laugh. The environment? Screw it. The 2015 Session is more than half way through, and your elected representatives have made it clear they really, truly, do not care what you think. They care what NRA gorgon Marion Hammer thinks. And what Tom […]
Guest AuthorDecember 4, 20135min153
I get a kick out of these periodic threats by states or regions to secede from the United States. Sometimes they’re boastful efforts by the likes of Texas, which has a great business economy, low taxes and dismal results to show for it — horrible on education, health care and the environment, so bad it […]