The first full week of February is Florida’s Severe Weather Awareness Week. Every day this week the CBS 12 StormTrac Team ...

Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans with enormous force. The city had faced deadly storms previously, including Hurricane Betsy in 1965, which caused extensive flooding and killed dozens of ...

Understanding Louisiana's Susceptibility to Flooding Louisiana is a state that has always been closely tied to water. Its ...

Katrina makes landfall in Louisiana at 6:10 a.m., but the flooding of residential areas ... which make up the easternmost length of the ring of hurricane-protection levees surrounding St.

What a difference a few years and a federal law have made. At the end of August 2005, Hurricane Katrina led to overwhelming damage in Louisiana, especially in New Orleans, and nearly 2,000 people died ...

In 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit the American city of New Orleans ... (banks of earth built around the city to protect it from flooding), most of the city was flooded. Many people had to ...

Developers are tearing down the Six Flags amusement complex in New Orleans two decades after it was decimated during ...

The National Hurricane Center (NHC) reported flooding from Tallahassee ... He feared a repeat of Hurricane Katrina's storm surge in 2005, in which roughly 250 alligators escaped their enclosures.

FEMA was absorbed by DHS in 2003, prompting criticism that its highly bureaucratic nature rendered the agency ineffective in addressing natural disasters.

mar, 11 de sept de 2012, 10:42 a.m. NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- The Army Corps of Engineers is back on trial, seven years after Hurricane Katrina's epic storm surge shredded the flood protection system it had ...

With more than 200 dead – 104 in North Carolina – Hurricane Helene is the deadliest U.S. hurricane in decades. Helene also is responsible for the most inland flooding deaths since 1972 and the ...