As Hurricane Season Reaches its Peak, There Could be Plenty More After Hanna, Ike and Josephine; All Three Could Strike the Atlantic Seaboard Within a Week Parade of storms: As the remnants of Hurricane Gustav (left) continue to dump torrential rains on northern Louisiana, eastern Texas and Arkansas, Tropical Storm Hanna (center) roars through Haiti and the Dominican Republic while Tropical Storm Ike (right) churns in the open Atlantic. The latter two cyclones -- along with Tropical Storm... Read Full Story
Hurricane Now a Tropical Storm, But Still Drenches Louisiana With Heavy Rains; Surge Splashes Over Industrial Canal Levees, But Reinforced Walls Hold; East Coast Keeps Wary Eye on Hanna Swollen water sloshes over the side of a levee Monday on the Industrial Canal in New Orleans as Hurricane Gustav slammed into the Gulf Coast, driving a surge of water to the lip of the levees protecting the below-sea-level Crescent City. But after several tense hours, the levees held fast, to the great relief... Read Full Story
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AS IF WHAT REMAINED OF TROPICAL STORM HANNA'S SOAKING THE NORTHEAST CORRIDOR INTO NEW ENGLAND WASN'T AWFUL ENOUGH before heading off to sea on the overnight, there's a new meteorological time bomb ticking away in the Caribbean by name of Hurricane Ike.
Keep the "I Like Ike" buttons your grandparents wore in the 1950's in the attic for now, folks; Ike is showing its real face as a destructive storm of the highest order, already bringing even further devastation upon Haiti... Read Full Story
Catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide Corporation estimates that insured losses to onshore properties in the U.S. are between $2 billion and $4.5 billion, with an expected loss of $3 billion. These loss estimates do not account for any flooding that may yet result from the breach of natural defenses such as levees. “Hurricane Gustav not only failed to reintensify during its passage through the Gulf of Mexico, it actually weakened slightly just before landfall,” said Dr. Peter Dailey... Read Full Story
Last week’s crude and gasoline inventories dropped more than expected as the effects of Hurricane Gustav resulted in some production disruptions. Gustav, which struck last month, was the fourth-most-destructive storm to hit the United States, causing $20 billion in damages.
And then came Hurricane Ike.
Ike made landfall in the Galveston area of the U.S. Gulf Coast on in the pre-dawn hours Saturday (the day I was penning this column) as a Category 2 storm with winds hitting 110 miles per... Read Full Story
Tropical Storm Hanna lost her Hurricane status last night, but she’s slowly regaining strength and following a familiar course toward the coast of South Carolina, according to the most recent advisory from the National Weather Service. The middle of the storm’s forecast track currently has it making landfall just north of Charleston late Friday night (almost precisely where Hurricane Hugo struck in 1989), although there is still a possibility it could strike further south or miss a... Read Full Story
The hurricane season still has a few punches left, it would appear. After the likes of Gustav, Hanna and Ike, Kyle is now on track to be a meaningful storm or hurricane. Currently, Tropical Storm Kyle is making itself different from Hanna and Ike in that it could hit the East Coast primarily. As the possible eleventh major storm to hit the United States this hurricane season, Tropical Storm or Hurricane Kyle could cause major storms for the East Coast this weekend. But Tropical Storm Kyle... Read Full Story
The Hands & Feet Project, a childrens village in Jacmel, Haiti that was started by GRAMMY-winning band Audio Adrenaline in 2004, has suffered severe damage from the latest hurricane to hit the area. To make a donation online to help Hands & Feet Project, go to www.handsandfeetproject.org . Contributions via mail can be sent to Gustav Relief, c/o Hands & Feet Project, PO Box 682105, Franklin, TN 37068. Following the destruction from hurricane Fay, hurricane Gustav buried the village in... Read Full Story
Hurricane Gustav formed on August 25th, about 260 miles southeast of Part-au- Prince, Haiti and rapidly strengthened into a hurricane early on August 26th.
It is the second major hurricane of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season and has had a major impact on New Orleans and the surrounding area following the disastrous impact of Hurricane Katrina 3 years earlier.
Here are a selection of the latest news, pictures and videos on Hurricane Gustav:
August 25th, 2008
Gustav Weakens... Read Full Story
Former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist of Tennessee is helping lead an effort at the 2008 Republican National Convention aimed at assisting evacuees in the Gulf Coast region affected by Hurricane Gustav and those suffering from HIV and AIDS in developing countries.
The Republican convention, in Minneapolis, Minn., already down-scaled its opening day yesterday due to the impact of Gustav, which slammed into the region surrounding New Orleans.
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee... Read Full Story
