The 2025 hurricane season is upon us, and you are your home’s first line of defense. If you haven’t already done so, start ...

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Theses are emergency contact numbers for Polk County, its municipalities, plus electric companies and aid services.

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But the clearest cause for worry is in western North Carolina, where the Trump administration is balking at providing ...

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Philip Bedient, a professor who studies flood models at Rice University, brought us to one of the county’s most recent undertakings, an enormous, man-made concrete canal full of water. It was recently ...

Several South Florida organizations teamed up to help families across the state prepare for storm season.Vehicles rolled through the Youth<a class="excerpt-read-more" href=" More ...

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Every storm has a story, and many more have yet to be written. From each hurricane’s beginning, thousands of miles across the Atlantic, to their dramatic end on ...