Homes and businesses still sit in ruins in a small Louisiana city, left behind by the government’s convoluted and unpredictable system for rebuilding communities devastated by natural disasters.
Mary Cormier and her daughter slept wherever they could in the months after Hurricane Laura destroyed their trailer, including in her pickup truck at times.
The last, best chance for southwest Louisiana to obtain further long-term aid related to hurricanes Laura and Delta from the federal government could be on the verge
In an unusual experiment, a coral reef in Mexico is now insured against hurricanes. A team of locals known as “the Brigade” rushed to repair the devastated corals, piece by piece.
Six weeks after Hurricane Laura hit the Gulf Coast, Hurricane Delta crashed through. For some, seedy hotels and a seemingly endless wait for FEMA add to a disastrous 2020.
In 2018, a tropical storm teamed up with a heat wave to strengthen a hurricane—a storm-fueling scenario that might happen more often as the planet warms.
