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Galveston Hopes Federal Money Will Help Keep Water Flowing After A Major Storm The City of Galveston is getting millions of dollars from FEMA to replace a water pumping station that was damaged by Hurricane Ike over four years ago. |
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Galveston Still Healing 5 Years After Hurricane Ike Hurricane Ike rammed into the Texas coast in 2008, causing more than $50 billion in damage. Nowhere was the impact more evident than Galveston. The city still faces challenges related to Ike, but many leaders are optimistic about rebuilding efforts. |
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Why We Should Prepare For An Unsually Busy Hurricane Season It looks like this year's hurricane season will be busier than usual. That's according the hurricane forecast from Colorado State University. |
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Gulf Coast Businesses Brace For Severe Hurricane Season Houston-based ImpactWeather is forecasting this year's Atlantic hurricane season will be more severe than last year's. A storm in the Gulf of Mexico would affect Houston-area businesses, even if it misses the region altogether. |
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Galveston's Ike Dike Project Gets Financial Boost Texas A&M in Galveston is getting financial help in its efforts to develop a storm surge protection system. |
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Galveston Emergency Management Official Discusses Hurricane Sandy Recovery Galveston County's Emergency Management Coordinator will be in Washington Tuesday to testify before a House committee looking into FEMA's response to Hurricane Sandy in New York and New Jersey. |
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NYC Storm Planners In Houston During Ike As Hurricane Sandy begins slamming the northeast, emergency planners in New York City are using some of the things they learned here in the Houston area during Hurricane Ike four years ago. |
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Houston Feels Sandy's Wrath — Through Flight Cancellations Hurricane Sandy has forced the cancellation of thousands of flights in the northeast. And that's had a ripple effect here in Houston. |
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Houston Forecaster Says Sandy Could Be Another Perfect Storm Hurricane forecasters here in Houston are keeping a close eye on sandy as that storm heads toward landfall along the East Coast. Sandy could turn into a replay of "the perfect storm" that hit the northeast exactly 21 years ago. |
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Expert: Hurricane Season For Houston May Be Over There are still more than two months left in the official Atlantic hurricane season, but one local expert says we're pretty much done when it comes to threats to the Houston area. |
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Isaac: The Storm That Just Won't Die A sliver of Hurricane Isaac that just won't die is making some noise in the northern Gulf of Mexico and could reform into a storm. |
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Houston Area Salvation Army Plans Relief For Hurricane Victims As hundreds of thousands of Louisiana residents begin their recovery after Hurricane Isaac, the Houston area Salvation Army is sending some relief to New Orleans. |
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Houston Utility Lineman Ready To Return The Favor In Louisiana Linemen from Houston's CenterPoint Energy are on the way to Louisiana this afternoon to help restore power to several million people. The help is similar to what Houston got after Ike in 2008. |
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Local Utility Ready To Assist Those Affected By Isaac As Tropical Storm Isaac continues to move inland, it's leaving high water and massive power outages in its wake. Power crews from here in Houston are ready to hit the road to help Louisiana and other states restore electricity to areas that have been battered by the big storm. |
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No Mass Evacuations To Harris County As Tropical Storm Isaac veers further westward many New Orleans residents are making plans to evacuate. But Harris County is no longer an evacuation zone for people in coastal areas. |
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Forecasters Say We Could See More Tropical Activity This Year Forecasters with the National Weather Service are upping the chances of tropical activity this hurricane season. They say wind patterns and warm water could make things busy in the Atlantic |
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Prepare and Respond: Harris County Reacts To A Mock Hurricane It may be just a drill, but Harris County officials are conducting an extensive hurricane preparedness exercise. It's an effort to hone their response to an actual weather emergency. |
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Report: TWIA Improves Claims Processes After years of controversy and legal wrangling, a bit of good news today for the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association in a report from the State Auditor's Office. It said the insurer's claims process is improving. |
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Thanks To Ernesto, Timely Hurricane Conference Weather watchers are keeping an eye on Tropical Storm Ernesto speeding over the Eastern Caribbean. Little wonder that the storm was included as a topic of discussion at a scheduled hurricane conference at the UH Hilton. |
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Helping Houston Seniors Prepare For Disaster The Interfaith Ministries "Meals on Wheels" program is the main source of food for thousands of Houston seniors each day. But what if a major storm or hurricane hits, delivery could be impossible and some seniors could go hungry. |
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Medical Center Participates In Hurricane Workshop To Prepare For Crisis Mode The Texas Medical Center conducts its annual Hurricane Preparedness Workshop. While the area has been spared a major hurricane the last several years, officials tell participants not to count on luck this season. |
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With hurricane season in full swing and Tropical Storm Debby drenching Florida — food safety officials want coastal residents to know what to do to keep food edible during a power outage. |
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Storm Tracking Before The Storm Begins The tropical system forming in the Gulf of Mexico has local emergency officials on alert. Advances in technology give Texas coastal officials plenty of lead time to know whether a storm might head our way. |
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Tropical Storm May Form In The Gulf Forecasters will be busy this weekend trying to predict how a system of disturbed weather in the southern Gulf of Mexico will develop. Computer models don't have much to go on yet. |
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FEMA Head Urges Small Businesses To Prepare For Hurricanes Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator Craig Fugate visited the Sam's Club at Fuqua and the Gulf Freeway for a disaster preparedness expo targeting local small business owners. |
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KUHF Conversations: Rice Engineering Professor Phil Bedient. Hurricane Ike is now four years in the past, but scientists are still studying its tremendous impact. Now the Texas A&M University Press has just published "Lessons from Hurricane Ike" — a series of essays on what scientists have learned, and what can be done for the next big storm. KUHF Health and Science reporter Carrie Feibel spoke with the book's editor, Rice engineering professor Phil Bedient. |
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Fuel, Gold Dust During A Hurricane Hurricane season is officially upon us and forecasters say this year is expected to be a mild one, but that can change in an instant. As Houstonians stock up on their own provisions, one local business is making sure they're stocked to help others. It's considered gold dust during and after a hurricane, fuel. |
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KUHF Conversations: Harris Co. Judge Ed Emmett On Hurricane Season Preparedness Every year when hurricane season rolls around on June 1st, we hear the same thing — make a plan and be prepared. We all know about how we should stock up on food, water, medication, ice, and — after the harsh lessons of Hurricane Ike in 2008 — find a way to get backup power, in case you're one of the unlucky ones who goes for up to two weeks without electricity. So what's new in hurricane preparedness this year? KUHF's David Pitman recently stopped by the office of Harris County Judge Ed Emmett to find out. |
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Dan Rather: Return To Galveston Full Circle Former CBS anchorman Dan Rather is in Galveston today to help raise funds to replant thousands of trees on the island that were lost to Hurricane Ike in 2008. Pat Hernandez had a chance to talk to the man credited with changing the way storms are covered. |
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Hurricane Season Affected By El Nino Hurricane season is a little more than a month away, and more forecasts are coming out about what we might be able to expect this year. Weather experts are predicting a normal season. |
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There Will Never Be Another Hurricane Irene A hurricane that slammed the Eastern Seaboard last year has joined 75 other big storm names that have now been retired. There will never be another Hurricane Irene. |
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Research Duo Gives Gulf Hurricane Prediction Two researchers in Colorado say they can do a fairly good job of predicting Hurricanes. The hurricane team has been predicting storms for almost three decades and has some interesting things to say about the upcoming storm season. |
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Nearly two years after Hurricane Ike — FEMA is extending its temporary housing for a number of families who still don't have permanent homes. Laurie Johnson reports. |
