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No matter where you live, extreme weather can hit your area, causing damage to homes, power outages, and dangerous or deadly conditions. If you’re on the coast, it may be a hurricane; in the Midwest or South, a tornado; in the West, wildfires; and as we’ve seen in recent years, anywhere can experience heat waves or flash flooding.

Living through a disaster and its aftermath can be both traumatic and chaotic, from the immediate losses of life and belongings to conflicting information around where to access aid. The weeks and months after may be even more difficult, as the attention on your community is gone but civic services and events have stalled or changed drastically. ...

Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz is in hot water after warning about high water from a hurricane-strength storm heading toward his state.

Cruz on Sunday shared a social media post from Jim Mattress Mack McIngvale, the founder of Gallery Furniture in Houston.

"Gallery Furniture is here for you as Hurricane Beryl approaches," the post states. "Call us if you need us!" ...

Much of the southeast Caribbean was on alert late Saturday as Beryl strengthened into the first hurricane of the 2024 Atlantic season, with forecasters warning it will swiftly become a major storm.

The U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said Beryl — currently churning in the Atlantic Ocean about 595 miles (955 kilometers) east of Barbados — would become a “dangerous major hurricane” by the time it reached the Windward Islands late Sunday into Monday.

Barbados, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, and Grenada were all under hurricane warnings, while tropical storm warnings or watches were in effect for Martinique, Tobago and Dominica, the NHC said in its latest advisory....

The National Hurricane Center was tracking two systems with a chance to develop into the season’s next tropical depression or storm including one off the coast of Florida and one in the Caribbean. The system now centered just offshore from South Florida is an area of low pressure that already has brought a flooding threat to the state with a flood watch up the coast from Miami to Volusia County as well as inland portions of Brevard and Volusia counties. The heavy rains that have already dropped as much as 10 inches through Wednesday in some places could combine with king tides along the state’......

ORLANDO, Fla. — Hurricane Tammy has moved into the open Atlantic while newly formed Tropical Depression Twenty-One fell apart as it moved ashore into Central America on Tuesday. As of 5 p.m., the center of Tammy was located about 565 miles south-southeast of Bermuda moving northeast at 8 mph with maximum sustained winds of 75 mph. “This general motion is expected to continue through Wednesday. A turn toward the north at a slower forward speed is forecast to begin on Thursday,” forecasters said. “Slight strengthening is possible during the next day or two. Weakening is expected after that. Tamm......

Tropical storms Philippe and Rina continued to make their way through the Atlantic, but forecasters don’t anticipate Florida to be affected, according to Friday’s 11 a.m. advisory from the National Hurricane Center in Miami. The positioning of the two storms has forecasters pondering the possibility of the two storms merging. Here’s what the National Hurricane Center has to say about Philippe and Rina. Tropical Storm Philippe forecastTropical Storm Philippe “is likely to loiter just east of the Northern Leeward Islands for another three or four days,” senior hurricane specialist Robbie Berg wr......