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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.

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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."

Fortune

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.

Reuters

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

Manchester Evening News

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

Zenger

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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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.

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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.

WEKU

On Florida's Gulf Coast, developers eye properties ravaged by Hurricane Ian

With more than 35,000 homes damaged or destroyed in Lee County, Fla., residents are concerned about housing affordability – and changes to their communities – as developers become involved.

Reason

This Military Spending Bill Will Make Puerto Rico's Next Hurricane Disaster Even Worse

The maritime industry inserted some protectionism into the National Defense Authorization Act.

The Independent UK

Rays to split spring training at Disney, Tropicana Field

The Tampa Bay Rays will split spring training between the Wide World of Sports Complex near Orlando and Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg due to damage caused by Hurricane Ian

The Guardian - US

Big oil is behind conspiracy to deceive public, first climate racketeering lawsuit says

Lawyer in a civil lawsuit launched by towns in hurricane-hit Puerto Rico describes why it is using laws used to target mob bosses

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