Hurricane

Destroying Levees In Louisiana...On Purpose

NYT | Posted 06.22.2009 | Green


In what experts are calling the biggest levee-busting operation ever in North America, the brothers plan to return the muddy river to its ancient floo...

A Visit to Bangladeshi Regions Hit by Cyclone Aila

Nilopar Uddin | Posted 06.09.2009 | Living


Nilopar Uddin

The raging floodwaters which have submerged the wells across the country have made the water undrinkable. However, some people have became so desperately thirsty that they have resorted to drinking the floodwater and are suffering from diarrhea and dysentery.

Friday Talking Points [67] -- Washington At Warp Speed

Chris Weigant | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics


Chris Weigant

We open today's column with a mental image -- a gigantic metal turtle-bot, inching its way along. Clomp, clomp, clomp... it moves forward so slowly y...

Hurricane Hell: How To Start Picking Up The Pieces

abcnews.com | Emily Friedman | Posted 09.16.2008 | Living


When Galveston, Texas, resident Martin Carroll returned home to assess the damage left by Hurricane Ike, what he discovered was devastating. "It don'...

Sheltering Animals from the Storm

Michael Markarian | Posted 09.15.2008 | Politics


Michael Markarian

Led by Senators Ted Stevens and Frank Lautenberg, and Reps. Tom Lantos and Chris Shays, the PETS Act set national policy on how to deal with animals in disasters in a post-Katrina environment.

How Mean Can the Bush Administration Be?

Blake Fleetwood | Posted 09.08.2008 | Politics


Blake Fleetwood

The Bush administration has offered $100,000 worth of aid to hurricane-battered Cuba; this is but a pittance compared to what is needed by one of our closest neighbors. Someone should remind Bush that the Cold War is over.

Keys residents weigh evacuation, Gulf Coast next?

AP | BRIAN SKOLOFF | Posted 09.07.2008 | Home


KEY WEST, Fla. — With powerful Hurricane Ike on an uncertain course toward the Gulf of Mexico, many on these low-lying islands took a wait-and-s...

In the Wake of Katrina, Gustav...

Carl Pope | Posted 09.04.2008 | Politics


Carl Pope

As the Gulf Coast picks itself up after Gustav, and the Atlantic coast gets ready for Hannah, Ike, and Josephine, I'm going to fall back on the adage ...

After Gustav: Where's the Home in Homeland?

Linda Cronin-Gross | Posted 09.04.2008 | Green


Linda Cronin-Gross

One would think that the relatively new federal department, Homeland Security, would be doing its best to defend our homes, to keep us where our heart and hearth reside.

Gustav Raises The Question (Again): Is New Orleans Worth It?

AP | LARA JAKES JORDAN | Posted 09.02.2008 | Green


WASHINGTON — Those who love New Orleans say Hurricane Gustav is proof that the billions of dollars spent to protect the city and bring it back t...

Framing Sarah Palin

Chris Weigant | Posted 09.01.2008 | Politics


Chris Weigant

Democrats should stay away from the baby stories. They must resist the urge to comment at all on it. Let the media do the muckraking.

Gustav and Wild Turkey: New Orleans Hurricane Update by My Friend Jim Gabour

Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 08.30.2008 | Living


Vivian Norris de Montaigu

"It has been three years and a day since Katrina violated this city. We are not yet safe, and the world has tired of our story."

Weathering the Storm with Morgan Freeman

Carl Pope | Posted 07.17.2008 | Green


Carl Pope

With fresh, visceral images of past Category-5 hurricanes in our minds, many forecasters have predicted another active storm season for the Gulf Coast and Eastern Seaboard regions.

Superdelegates, Obama, Robber Drag Queens, New Orleans and the "Old White Guy," John McCain

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 05.19.2008 | Politics


Georgianne Nienaber

You would think that all of Bush's follies in New Orleans would guarantee that the Crescent City would vote Democratic this November. Don't be too sure.

Hurricanes -- Whither Thou Blowest

Ben Rosen | Posted 01.07.2008 | Politics


Ben Rosen

When one is born and raised in New Orleans, the fear of hurricanes is never far away. And though I left the city after high school, the fear was cert...

Humberto The 'Instant Hurricane' Was Fastest-Growing Storm On Record

AP | JUAN A. LOZANO and MATT SEDENSKY | Posted 09.13.2007 | Home


Call it the instant hurricane. Humberto, which grew faster than any storm on record from tropical depression to full-scale hurricane landfall, surpris...