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Hurricanes and floods bring $120 billion in insurance losses in 2022

Hurricane Ian in the United States and floods and Australia helped to make 2022 one of the costliest years on record for natural disasters, Munich Re said on Tuesday, warning that climate change was making storms more intense and frequent.

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Man convicted after drone flown 'dangerously close' to wing of RAF Hurricane fighter during carnival flypast

Police said the criminal case could be the first of its kind

Manchester Evening News

The US Has A New Lightning Capital, And It’s Next To A Popular Tourist Destination

Lightning is one of nature's most powerful forces, and in 2022, there was an increase in lightning activity in the United States

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US startup's climate gig stirs up controversy

It was the moral equivalent of a fart in a hurricane. The "hurricane" was the explosion of the Mount Pinatubo volcano in the Philippines in 1991, which boosted 17 million tonnes of sulphur dioxide into the stratosphere.

Bangkok Post

Survey: 3.3 million US adults displaced by natural disasters

More than 1.3% of the adult population in the U.S. was displaced by natural disasters in the past year, with hurricanes responsible for more than half of the forced relocations

The Independent UK

Hurricane-damaged roofs in Puerto Rico remain a problem. One group is offering a fix.

Five years after Hurricane Maria, PRoTechos, a local nonprofit, helps repair damaged roofs the government overlooked or that were fixed poorly. It also trains people to make future repairs themselves.

WEKU

Wealthy Connecticut Residents Received Millions in Federal Dollars After Hurricane Sandy

It shouldn't be the federal government's responsibility to protect wealthy homeowners from the inevitable.

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Canaveral National Seashore, Playalinda Beach smashed by Hurricane Nicole are ‘not going to be the same’

What makes Canaveral National Seashore so revered in Florida is that visitors can commune with the wildest nature, some two-dozen miles of Atlantic surf rolling onto beaches never reconstructed, far from T-shirt shops and conjuring a sense of before European conquest.

Orlando Sentinel

The 2022 hurricane season shows why climate change is so dangerous

This year's hurricane season got off to a very slow start. But it only takes one big storm to wreak havoc. And climate change makes such storms more likely.

WEKU

J.J. Watt surprised the NFL world by casually announcing his retirement with sweet family photos

J.J. Watt found a very sweet way to announce his retirement from the NFL and fans paid tributes.

USA Today Sports Media Group

How ten biggest weather disasters of 2022 cost the global economy £139 billion

Christian Aid highlighted the 'devastating' impact of extreme weather - including February's Storm Eunice - made more intense by climate change.

Daily Record

On Florida's Gulf Coast, developers eye properties ravaged by Hurricane Ian

With more than 35,000 homes damaged or destroyed in Lee County, Fla., residents are concerned about housing affordability – and changes to their communities – as developers become involved.

WEKU

This Military Spending Bill Will Make Puerto Rico's Next Hurricane Disaster Even Worse

The maritime industry inserted some protectionism into the National Defense Authorization Act.

Reason

Rays to split spring training at Disney, Tropicana Field

The Tampa Bay Rays will split spring training between the Wide World of Sports Complex near Orlando and Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg due to damage caused by Hurricane Ian

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Big oil is behind conspiracy to deceive public, first climate racketeering lawsuit says

Lawyer in a civil lawsuit launched by towns in hurricane-hit Puerto Rico describes why it is using laws used to target mob bosses

Salon

GOP wants to save insurance market

The state's insurance companies are struggling to survive an onslaught of hurricanes and litigation

Tribune News Service

Best travel options to vacation on Florida’s west coast after Hurricane Ian

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Southwest Florida’s famed vacation spots — Naples, Captiva and Sanibel Islands, Fort Myers Beach, Pine Island Sound — have long been escapes from Florida’s more bustling east coast.

Miami Herald

Six Miami players hit double figures as Hurricanes beat St. Francis, 91-76, improve to 11-1

CORAL GABLES, Fla. — On paper, Saturday’s home game against St. Francis (Penn.) looked like an easy outing before the 25th-ranked Miami Hurricanes face No. 2 Virginia on Tuesday.

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Daily Mirror

Pair of 156-year-old rotting jeans discovered in shipwreck sell for almost £100,000

The jeans - believed to be workwear trousers possibly belonging to a miner - went down with the S.S Central America, a steamer that sank off the coast of the US in a hurricane 156 years ago.

Salon

Puerto Ricans fleeing to Florida

The state's affordable housing crisis has made it almost impossible for storm victims to get back on their feet

Salon

Half of community moved after Katrina

After Hurricane Katrina devastated St. Bernard Parish, many residents didn’t receive enough money to rebuild

The Independent UK

Michigan man dies in Florida while delivering free bikes

A Michigan Army veteran has been killed in a crash while delivering bicycles to children in Florida affected by Hurricane Ian

The Conversation

Local nonprofits play a key role in recovery from disasters – while also having to get back on their own feet

When hurricanes, floods and other kinds of disasters throttle a community, people from all over often rush to give those in need money, bottled water, diapers and all sorts of goods.

Tribune News Service

Rustic fishing towns faced Ian’s wrath. Now at the height of tourism season, ‘We’re in a lot better shape’

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Chokoloskee and Everglades City, two fishing villages-turned-travel-destinations that sit next to each other on the cusp of Everglades National Park and the Gulf of Mexico, have seen more than their share of hurricane destruction — most recently Donna in 1960, Wilma in 2005, and then Irma…

Orlando Sentinel

Not ‘enough money to save them all.’ Fla. county grapples with double hurricane whammy

WILBUR-BY-THE-SEA, Fla. — Kate Rose stays awake at night thinking about her family’s oceanfront home perched perilously on the edge of the eroded shoreline.

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