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Many types of disasters that we try and anticipate bring destruction along with them. This is no more clearly seen than in the storms that hit St Louis (tornado) and the New Jersey seashore (hurricane). In both cases (as well ...

While stockpiling food is an important part of preparing to face a disaster, your stockpiling shouldn’t be limited to just food. Experience has shown that in the face of a major disaster, much more than the food supply line is ...

Tropical Storm Andrea was the first named storm of the 2013 hurricane season, and if tradition repeats itself, it will not be the last. As the years have gone by, the hurricane seasons have become more active, especially for the ...

When serious storms like Hurricane Sandy slams into coastal cities and towns, many worry about lives and property. Fallen trees, widespread flooding, power outages, and other damage are a given, and it comes as no surprise that garden beds often ...

Despite all the pleas to the general public to be prepared, most people don’t think disaster will strike them. They’ll mumble about the need to lay in some supplies just in case “something” happens and then never do it. They’ll ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE — After hurricane Tomas ripped through Haiti, destroying some 5,000 houses and causing 18 million dollars in new damage, Haiti’s Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive announced on behalf of the National Assembly that Haiti will withdraw from its current hurricane ...

My husband and I were in Cancun when Hurricane Wilma hit. I had never been in a hurricane and was just there to relax after hand surgery the day before. We were in the tourist part of Cancun at an ...

Dear Editor, I have lived stateside for 22 years now but I was born and raised in Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico is in the Caribbean Sea, so it is exposed to a lot of hurricane activity every year. Like most islands, ...

We lived on the Mississippi coastline when Hurricane Frederic came through in 1979. Although we had everything we needed, my husband thought we should pick up a few more batteries, just in case. When we got to the store, there ...

I don’t know about you but I got a good chuckle last week watching Washington and much of New England get snowed in. In some places it was the largest snow in a century, in others it beat all records. ...