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Viral videos of EVs catching fire after Hurricane Helene raise safety concerns in Florida
Florida officials confirmed 16 lithium-ion-battery fires related to Hurricane Helene's storm surge,…
Catherine Boudreau
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Why so many dangerous hurricanes like Idalia have names that start with 'I'
Hurricane Idalia made landfall in Florida as a Category 3 hurricane on Wednesday, packing a dangero…
Rebecca Cohen
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Hurricane Ida knocks out 911 systems in and around New Orleans, leaving thousands scrambling to reach emergency help
New Orleans safety officials told residents to go to their nearest fire station or try to find a po…
Kenneth Niemeyer
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Hurricane Larry will likely bring life-threatening currents by midweek to the East Coast, which is still grappling with Ida's aftermath
The National Hurricane Center forecasts life-threatening currents will reach the East Coast and Atl…
Morgan Keith
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Nearly 1 million homes along the Gulf Coast might be damaged or destroyed by Hurricane Ida
CoreLogic estimates that the reconstruction cost value of the potentially damaged homes is approxim…
Emily Walsh
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Live updates: Hurricane Ida forecast to land in the Gulf Coast on the 16th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina
This GOES-16 East GeoColor satellite image taken Thursday, Aug. 26, 2021, at 10:20 p.m. EDT, and pr…
Morgan Keith
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A man accused of assaulting a reporter during a live Hurricane Ida broadcast in Mississippi has been caught by US Marshals in Ohio
The Gulfport Police Department said the man has been charged with two counts of simple assault in t…
Kelly McLaughlin
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Louisiana nursing home residents evacuated before Hurricane Ida died in another facility
Four residents of a nursing home in Louisiana died at their evacuation site in Tangipahoa Parish, a…
Canela López
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Trump complained on a radio show that the media spent 'all night' Sunday covering the devastation wrought by Hurricane Ida instead of his 'great agreement' with the Taliban
"All they talked about was the hurricane," the former president told the conservative radio host To…
Cheryl Teh
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Hurricane Ida evacuees wait in limbo to return home and survey the damage: ‘It’s nerve-racking and frustrating’
Tens of thousands of people who evacuated now find themselves unable to return home as the region d…
Erin Snodgrass
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A Louisiana resident was killed when a tree fell on their house in the first death caused by Hurricane Ida
The Ascension Parish Sheriff's Office confirmed that a person died when a tree fell on a house near…
Jacob Sarkisian
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Hurricane Ida is so powerful it made the Mississippi River flow backwards
Although Hurricane Katrina also reversed the flow of the Mississippi River, the phenomenon is extre…
Morgan Keith
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Photos and videos show the initial damage and flooding Hurricane Ida is bringing to Louisiana
A man takes pictures of high waves along the shore of Lake Pontchartrain as Hurricane Ida nears, Su…
Yelena Dzhanova
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Hurricane Ida could bring extensive power outages to the Gulf Coast and it's already knocked out more oil production than Katrina
Ida is expected to pass through oil fields that contribute 17% of the nation's total oil production…
Francis Agustin
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Hurricane Ida expected to bring 'extremely life-threatening inundation' to the Gulf Coast, forecast warns
The inundation is expected to stretch from parts of Louisiana to the coast of Mississippi, the Nati…
Yelena Dzhanova
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Human remains found inside a 12-foot alligator suspected of savaging a 71-year-old man in Hurricane Ida floods
The capture of the 12-foot alligator ended a two-week search for the missing Louisiana man, 71, las…
Sophia Ankel
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Wildlife officials have found more than 100 birds covered in oil after Hurricane Ida caused a spill at a refinery
Alligators, river otters, and nutria - large, semiaquatic rodents - have also been found covered in…
Kelsey Vlamis
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Hurricane Ida flooding highlights the need to aggressively invest in transportation infrastructure
What prevents governments from budgeting the funds needed for improvements to public transit, roads…
Karen K. Ho
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How a New Orleans bar crawled out of Hurricane Ida with a Bluetooth speaker, a power generator, and $1 beers
The owners of Pepp's Pub estimate they lost $30,000 in Hurricane Ida. They told Insider about the l…
Elle Hardy
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Watch this live video of Hurricane Ida striking New Orleans
Hurricane Ida is thrashing Louisiana as a Category 4 storm 16 years after Katrina devastated the ar…