Virginia emergency management officials are planning to hold a statewide tornado drill. The drill is a joint effort between the state Department of Emergency Management and the National Weather Service. It will take place on March 15 at 9:45 a.m. …
Oklahoma State Rep. Pat Ownbey and the Manufactured Housing Association of Oklahoma Board of Directors’ are seeking to develop sample emergency plans for mobile home communities to prevent deaths in the event of a tornado or other disaster. Ownbey said …
An official with the Oklahoma Climatological Survey says the number of tornadoes in the state in 2010 was the third-highest since the National Weather Service began keeping records in 1950. Associate State Climatologist Gary McManus says a tornado near Westville …
U.S. property insurers like Travelers Cos. Inc. and Chubb Corp. were expecting a relatively mild fourth quarter for catastrophe losses, but a series of punishing storms across the country in December may have blown away those estimates. That could add …
Gov. Mike Beebe has declared two Arkansas counties affected by a tornado and severe storms as state disaster areas. Severe weather on Dec. 31 caused three deaths and eight injuries, along with damage to more than 30 homes and businesses …
Whitney Crowder doesn’t remember the day her father died. What happened Dec. 16, 2000, has gone down in state history: Eleven people, including her father and baby brother, died when an F4 tornado hit south Tuscaloosa. It was the single …
A federal buyout of homes and businesses in the Tar Creek Superfund site in Oklahoma is nearly complete and is expected to cost about $10 million less than original estimates. More than four years after the voluntary buyout was announced, …
An appraiser says the Nov. 30 tornado that hit downtown Easley, S.C. caused an estimated $1.4 in damage to homes and businesses. The Greenville News reported that the estimate by Margo Eubanks with the Pickens County Assessor’s Office doesn’t include …
Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski is ordering state agencies to help clean up the debris left by a rare tornado that tore through Aumsville. Kulongoski has signed an executive order directing emergency management, the Oregon State Police and transportation officials to …
This was the year the Earth struck back. Earthquakes, heat waves, floods, volcanoes, super typhoons, blizzards, landslides and droughts killed at least a quarter million people in 2010 — the deadliest year in more than a generation. More people were …