Louisiana’s property insurance market is vastly improved nine years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the state on Aug. 29, 2005, largely...
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It has been 10 years since the record-breaking 2004 Atlantic hurricane season when four major hurricanes – Charley, Frances, Ivan...
A home in Burnet County, Texas, that was picked up and carried 100 yards by a tornado last month, was...
Two of the country’s top disaster experts challenged emergency managers and forecasters from Texas to Maine to help educate coastal...
City leaders in Moore, Okla., have approved new residential building codes requiring new homes to be built to withstand winds...
City councilors in Tulsa planned to begin discussions today on a proposed change to the city’s building code that would...
The insurance industry hopes a 21,000-square-foot lab in rural South Carolina can help revolutionize the way homes are built and...
In recognition of the impact wrought by Superstorm Sandy – $68 billion, the second biggest natural catastrophe loss in U.S....
Earthquakes never occur when needed so a team led by Johns Hopkins structural engineers is shaking up a building themselves...
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg called for a $20 billion system of flood barriers to protect low-lying areas from storms...