Kevin Hines has been living in a house without a roof in the days since a tornado devastated his community. He has seen some of his neighbors sleeping in their cars. A different man has spent untold hours on a bench. In the aftermath of the May 16 tornado, Hines, 60, has a blue tarp covering his…
After four months of reporting, ProPublica found that the warnings about Hurricane Helene were eerily accurate. Yet, local residents remained largely unaware of the enormity of danger approaching as…
Shuttering the disaster agency could leave poor and rural communities exposed.
The government spent years probing allegations that a Dallas HOA created rules to kick poor Black people out and that Texas discriminated against minority residents in Houston after Hurricane Harvey,…
As one of the regions most affected by the global climate crisis, local scientists are struggling with canceled research grants and funding cuts from federal agencies.
Saket Soni, founder of Resilience Force, says skilled restoration workers, with a range of legal statuses, are doing the arduous task of repairing US cities affected by disasters.
A man was arrested after threatening to harm FEMA workers in North Carolina. Workers were told to evacuate the area and several FEMA offices closed due to the threat.
Trump gets humiliated on live TV as Fox News’ Laura Ingraham fact-checks his pathetic lies about Kamala Harris’s hurricane response.
When exposed to the salty water of a storm surge, they are at risk of bursting into flames — and taking an entire house with them.
“We thought we were going to die there. We didn’t think anybody was going to come back for us.”
White House Homeland Security Adviser Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall said Monday during a press briefing there are 600 people unaccounted for following Hurricane Helene, as federal officials mount a response to the catastrophic storm in states across the Southeast.
Hurricane Helene slammed into the Florida coast Thursday night as a powerful and potentially catastrophic Category 4 storm, unleashing chaos across a large stretch of the Gulf Coast with high winds,…
There is quite a bit of research on the politics of disasters and how extreme weather shapes voter behavior. We’ve cited some of it in this newsletter.
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