Thousands of State Farm policyholders around Florida are angry with the insurance giant and can't wait to see the company leave. ...more

February 15, 2009

Gustav slammed into Cuba's tobacco-growing western tip as a monstrous Category 4 hurricane Saturday, and Cubans and Americans scrambled to flee the storm as it roared toward the oil-rich Gulf of Mexico and New Orleans. ...more

August 31, 2008

There is an ominous painting of a Category 5 hurricane swooping toward the western coast of Florida on the wall of Wayne Bennett's business. ...more

July 28, 2008

Wayne Bennett, owner of American Hurricane Specialists, will install storm shutters to local churches, nonprofits. ...more

July 28, 2008

Jerve attended the University of Minnesota-Morris, earning a degree in speech communication. He has done graduate work in meteorology at Jackson State University and Mississippi State University. ...more

May 23, 2008

A new generation of building codes, enhanced and tweaked from the destructive experience of recent storms, is one thing disaster planners and building officials are counting on to prevent that from happening. ...more

May 23, 2008

TAMPA - As Hurricane Noel rockets north, forecasters expect the storm not only to grow larger but also more powerful as it eventually threatens Nova Scotia. ...more

November 2, 2007

U.S., Honduran and Nicaraguan soldiers searched remote jungle beaches and the open sea Thursday looking for survivors and the dead from Hurricane Felix's rampage. ...more

September 7, 2007

Doctors threw together a makeshift clinic Wednesday to tend to the injured after powerful Hurricane Felix flooded their hospital and wrecked villages on Nicaragua's Caribbean coast. Remnants of the storm drenched Central America, and the death toll rose to 18, with dozens more missing. ...more

September 6, 2007