hurricane evacuation

The energy company that is providing power to Louisiana says full restoration of electricity to hurricane-battered areas outside New Orleans could take until the end of the month

Ida made landfall Sunday as a Category 4 storm, bringing with it strong winds, infrastructure damage and flooding.

Hurricane Ida has blasted ashore along the Louisiana coast as one of the most powerful storms ever to hit the U.S. as it rushed toward New Orleans and one of the nation’s most important industrial corridors.

Un niño de 3 años, residente de Midway, Ohio, murió el sábado luego de caer desde el balcón de un noveno piso en un condominio ubicado en Panama City Beach, según fue reportado por las autoridades.

Videos show rooftops being peeled away from buildings in Miami and Sarasota, Florida, during Hurricane Irma.

Strong wind and rain hit Fort Pierce, Florida, located about 65 miles north of West Palm Beach on Florida’s east coast.

Just north of Sarasota, Florida, Manatee County deputies rescue two manatees stranded in mud after water receded due to Hurricane Irma.

Powerful waves and storm surge from Hurricane Irma topped Havana’s iconic Malecon seawall and left thousands of homes, businesses and hotels swamped Sunday, even as the storm moved away from the island. There were no immediate reports of fatalities in Cuba, where the government prides itself on disaster preparedness and said it had carried out evacuations totaling more than 1...

Hotel dishwasher Wilman Hernandez waited with his wife and young son at a Miami Beach bus stop, desperately looking for a way to get to a shelter where they could ride out Hurricane Irma. Hernandez fears the storm will destroy their first-floor apartment. With no car to join the bumper-to-bumper traffic heading north and no supplies other than water, their...

More than a million Cubans have been evacuated by Cuba’s Civil Defense due to Hurricane Irma. Some have been sheltering in underground bunkers built 20 years ago by the Cuban regime, which thought it might be attacked by the United States.

The threat of Hurricane Irma is apparent in both its size, as shown in NASA imaging, as well as its trail of destruction, which rescuers attempt to mitigate.

Irma battered Cuba with deafening winds and relentless rain Saturday, while a second hurricane, Jose, threatened to lash already-reeling islands elsewhere in the Caribbean. Cuban coastal cities were clobbered by high winds from Irma that upended trees, toppled utility poles and scattered debris across streets. Roads were blocked, and witnesses said a provincial museum near the eye of the storm...

Hurricane Matthew shattered all that 11 months ago, and now Hurricane Irma is threatening to do it again. Everyone has evacuated or is leaving, and no one knows what will be left when the wind dies down and the water recedes.

When they first boarded the Norwegian Escape a week ago, passengers knew exactly where they were going. Now they have no idea. The cruise ship, with about 4,000 guests on board, departed from Miami on Saturday, Sept. 2, and was scheduled to return a week later, after making stops in Honduras, Belize and Mexico. The boat made it to the...

Carl Roberts has Chinese food, a case of water and a million-dollar view in his 17th floor Gulf front condo — all he needs, he says, to weather the massive storm coming straight at him. Authorities have beseeched more than 6 million people in Florida and Georgia to evacuate before Hurricane Irma’s storm surge and fierce winds make it impossible...

The biggest danger to life and property from Hurricane Irma could come from storm surge that forces sea water inland, toppling houses, isolating residents who don’t evacuate and making drowning an imminent threat, the National Hurricane Center is warning. Storm surge occurs when heavy winds push the ocean onto the land, and it’s a destructive feature of many cyclones and...

Dramatic cellphone video captures Hurricane Irma as it approached Turks and Caicos. The storm is responsible for at least 11 deaths and is expected to hit Miami early Sunday morning.

Vice President Mike Pence discusses Hurricane Irma with NBC 6 on Thursday, Sept. 7, 2017.

With winds of around 180 mph, Hurricane Irma lashed through the Northeast Caribbean including Barbuda, St. Martin and the British Virgin Islands. From torn trees to flattened homes, the storm caused widespread damage.