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Filipino workers: Oil company abandoned us in Hurricane Ida

Ten Filipino men who worked for a major offshore oil industry employer under federally granted visas claim in a federal lawsuit they were treated like prisoners at a company bunkhouse and that some of them were abandoned there when Hurricane Ida struck the Louisiana Gulf Coast in August 2021

The Independent UK

Climate insurance is becoming a world of haves and have-nots

Two reports give a very different assessment of the world's financial preparedness for climate-related damage.

Fortune

After 18 years, $1.5B dike repair done at Florida's Lake O

After 18 years, a $1.5 billion project has officially been completed to repair a sprawling dike around Florida’s Lake Okeechobee that protects thousands of people from potentially catastrophic flooding during hurricanes

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Sold an American Dream, these workers from India wound up living a nightmare

After Hurricane Katrina in 2006, hundreds of workers from India were promised jobs in what labor organizer Saket Soni calls "one of the largest cases of forced labor in modern U.S. history."

WEKU

Just what improvements qualify for Florida’s $10,000 home-hardening grant? Answers aren’t always easy to find

As early applicants to a Florida state-funded home improvement program analyze their wind-mitigation inspection reports, some say they are confused about what home-hardening improvements will be eligible for up to $10,000 in $2-to-$1 matching grant funds.

Tribune News Service

Ex-Miami QB Jake Garcia transferring to Missouri; center Jakai Clark enters portal

Former Miami Hurricanes quarterback Jake Garcia found a new school quickly.

Tribune News Service

Remains of Florida residents believed to have died in Hurricane Ian still being recovered more than 100 days later

Lee County officials solved its final hurricane-related missing persons case on Sunday, officials said

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Warren Gatland’s shock first Wales squad as ruthless decisions changed everything

He blew into Welsh rugby like a hurricane

Wales Online

Nursing home owner faces new lawsuit in Ida storm evacuation

A Louisiana nursing home owner is facing a new lawsuit over evacuating residents to a squalid warehouse to ride out Hurricane Ida in 2021

The Independent UK

Jamie Dimon is waffling on his economic ‘hurricane’ take yet again. His bank is now calling a ‘mild recession’ later this year

Wall Street banks are building cash reserves to cope with a “mild recession.” It’s a more optimistic outlook than some CEOs have previously offered.

Fortune

18 huge, billion-dollar disasters: Climate change helped make 2022 the 3rd most expensive year on record

U.S. weather disasters are getting costlier as more people move into vulnerable areas and climate change raises the risks of extreme heat and rainfall, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration warned as it released its annual billion-dollar disasters report on Jan. 10, 2023.

The Conversation

No debate anymore: Climate change makes extreme weather worse, federal scientists say

MIAMI — South Florida has always been hot, rainy and vulnerable to hurricanes. So it’s understandable that some longtime residents remain skeptical that climate change is doing anything to make the region’s age-old problems any worse.

Miami Herald

US climate disasters racked up $165 billion in damage in 2022

A massive hurricane, a historic drought and 16 other major disasters across the U.S. collectively racked up $165 billion in damages and killed at least 474 people in 2022, according to a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration analysis published Tuesday.

Tribune News Service

Jamie Dimon rattled the markets last year by comparing the coming recession to a 'hurricane.' Now he says it's just some 'storm clouds'

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon says he shouldn't have used the word "hurricane" to describe what lies ahead for the U.S. economy last year, but adds that there still are "storm clouds" and "heightened uncertainty."

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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.

Manchester Evening News

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

Zenger

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

Bangkok Post

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.

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The Independent UK

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

WEKU

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.

Reason

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.

Orlando Sentinel

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.

WEKU

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.

USA Today Sports Media Group

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.

Daily Record

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.

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