A house capable of floating atop rising floodwaters made its debut Oct. 6 in New Orleans alongside more than a dozen other homes built through actor Brad Pitt’s Make It Right Foundation. Called the FLOAT House, the unique home aims …
Typhoon Melor made landfall on the south coast of Japan, approximately 25 miles (40 kms) from Hamamatsu on Wednesday. According to a preliminary analysis from Risk Management Solutions, “available meteorological data indicates that Melor had maximum sustained winds between 63 …
A flash flood watch issued for the state of Hawaii on Monday has now been lifted by the National Weather Service. The watch extended through Tuesday afternoon. The weather service said the potential for heavy showers and isolated thunderstorms was …
The Chubb Group has extended its post-catastrophe inspection service to homeowners insurance customers who own a secondary or seasonal home in Georgia and South Carolina and who may not be able to visit their property immediately after a hurricane or …
Tropical storm Parma stalled for two days off northwestern Philippines, was slowly heading toward the country’s tobacco-producing region on Tuesday, after killing at least 22 people. Right behind it is Typhoon Melor, a category 4 storm currently south of Okinawa …
Rescue workers called off the search Monday for life under the rubble left by a massive earthquake, focusing instead on bringing aid to survivors in the towns and hills of western Indonesia, despite being hampered by torrential rains. “The chances …
Cooling temperatures and higher humidity on Monday gave firefighters some welcome relief as they waged an ongoing assault against a wildfire that had burned to the edges of a popular resort town in the San Gabriel Mountains. The temperature at …
A fire driven by winds of more than 40 mph destroyed three homes and threatened dozens of others in a rugged warren of mountains and canyons northeast of San Bernardino on Saturday. As a huge wall of flames chewed through …
A series of earthquakes _ the largest a magnitude-5.1 _ have rattled the Lone Pine area of the eastern Sierra in Central California. The largest struck about 18 miles southeast of the town of Lone Pine along the east shore …
Rescuers dug feverishly on Friday through the rubble of a school and other buildings toppled by an earthquake in the Indonesian port of Padang, but few victims were being found alive two days after the tremor. The United Nations said …
