According to catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide, Typhoon Vicente, the 8th named storm to form in the Northwest Pacific this year, struck Hong Kong at 4 a.m. Tuesday (July 24, 2012). Accompanied by heavy rains, a central pressure of 950 …
Late June storms caused more than $375,000 in damage to the Dixon Correctional Center in northern Illinois. The (Bloomington) Pantagraph reported that records show officials are replacing roofs on numerous buildings at the Dixon prison. They’re also installing electrical components …
Federal regulators say a Southern California desert tire recycler’s 160,000 discarded tires are dangerous. The Environmental Protection Agency told Mecca’s Consolidated Tire Recyclers a year ago that the tires were a fire risk and the outdoor piles needed to be …
The federal government has declared Michigan a disaster area because of damage to fruit crops from erratic spring weather, making growers eligible to seek low-interest loans. Sen. Debbie Stabenow, a Michigan Democrat, said the U.S. Department of Agriculture had granted …
Oil and natural gas production trucks are tearing up local roads in Texas, but the industries aren’t providing enough money to pay for the damage, according to members of a local task force expected to suggest ways to fix the …
Severe storms struck Ohio over the weekend with powerful, damaging winds that one utility compared to the remnants of Hurricane Ike in 2008, prompting Gov. John Kasich to declare a state of emergency and call out the National Guard. Kasich …
New insurance claim estimates from the hail, wind and flooding that wreaked havoc on June 6 from South Denver down to Colorado Springs and again on June 7 in Northern Colorado and the Eastern Plains made it the state’s fourth …
Straight-line wind gusts damaged buildings, uprooted trees and sent a 30-foot sailboat crashing through the window of a home in North Dakota on June 9, the National Weather Service said. The boat hit a home in Granville, where residents have …
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper is preparing to add his signature to two bills that will provide victims of the state-caused Lower North Fork fire ways to seek more compensation. The bills signed Monday will retroactively add state-set wildfires to the …
A fire at a 10-acre industrial area in San Bernardino County has caused an estimated $2.5 million in damage. Authorities say the fire erupted Saturday evening in a Fontana yard stacked with thousands of wooden pallets. Flames leaped 80 feet …
