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Hurricane Harvey hit land on Friday night as the strongest storm to strike the U.S. since before the Twitter era -- since Hurricane Wilma hit Florida in 2005. While its strongest winds are ...
First, let's start with the forecast basics. The National Hurricane Center's storm track forecasts for Harvey were uncannily accurate, predicting both the storm's initial landfall north of Corpus ...
Dan Frosch writes about the U.S. economy for The Wall Street Journal, with a focus on poverty and inequality.
Despite its path of destruction ... Hurricane Katrina maintains the record alongside Hurricane Harvey as the costliest storm of all time, with $125 billion in damages. Hurricane Ian places ...
Hurricane Harvey was a unique and devastating event ... obliterating everything in its path. The storm surge and winds were so severe that they swept a train off its tracks, killing over 400 ...
While Imelda's flooding impacts may be worse than Harvey in some parts of Texas, Harvey was a $125-billion disaster, the nation's second-costliest tropical cyclone behind only Katrina, because of its ...
Spokeo compared data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Social Security Administration to see how ...
Chris Matthews leads The Wall Street Journal's U.S. energy coverage from the Journal's bureau in Houston.
When a hurricane ... When a storm is particularly deadly or costly, its name is retired. For example, names like Katrina (2005), Sandy (2012), Maria (2017), and Harvey (2017) have been permanently ...