After a Dozen Hurricanes and 40 Years, What Has Changed and What Has Not.

By JOSEPH B. TREASTER September 12, 2017 MIAMI — Every hurricane tells a story. Hurricane Andrew in 1992, with a 17-foot storm surge and winds so intense that they destroyed the gauges meant to measure them, was the disaster that changed...

My (Surprisingly Calm) Flight Through Hurricane Irma

We embedded with the Air Force Reserve’s 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, known as the Hurricane Hunters. On a 12-hour flight, the crew gathered data on Hurricane Irma as it made landfall over Cuba on its way to Florida.

Damp, Dark and Disarrayed, Florida Starts Coping With Irma’s Aftermath

By ALEXANDER BURNS September 11, 2017 Florida emerged from Hurricane Irma on Monday as a landscape of blacked-out cities, shuttered gas stations, shattered trees and flooded streets, while the now-weakened storm kept sweeping northward. Major streets...

Before Pounding Florida, Hurricane Took Out Its Fury on Another Part of the U.S.

By LUIS FERRÉ-SADURNÍ September 11, 2017 TUTU, V.I. — With residents ignoring the loosely enforced curfew here and lining up hours before the makeshift pantries opened, it was clear Monday that many were still going to end the day hungry....