FLORIDA EMERGENCY INFORMATION
- Years after Ian, Seminole County buys out flood-prone homes with FEMA money December 21, 2025 4:21 pm More than three years after their homes were nearly destroyed by Hurricane Ian’s floodwaters, residents along Lake Harney in east Seminole County are finally seeing relief. Seminole County, acting on behalf of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, …
- Misinformation about vaccines is spreading rapidly |… December 21, 2025 11:44 am Dec. 21, 2025, 6:02 a.m. ET Readers express concern over proposed rollbacks of school vaccine requirements in Florida. Several writers condemn former President Trump's remarks following the murder of Rob and Michelle Reiner. The termination of …
- Report: ‘Layered, adaptive’ wildfire insurance approach needed in Montana December 20, 2025 1:15 am Calling rising wildfire insurance rates an “urgent challenge,” a Headwaters Economics and Columbia Climate School report released this month points to potential approaches to address the financial burden on Montana property owners. Nationwide, property …
- My Home Was Hit By a Hurricane: Here’s Everything I Learned December 19, 2025 7:42 pm In 2017, Hurricane Irma stripped nearly every building and tree from the island of Barbuda. With 185-mph winds, Irma was the most powerful storm ever recorded in the Atlantic. Four days later, it made landfall directly over our house in the Florida Keys. …
- May tornado survivors lobby D.C. lawmakers for a better Federal Emergency Management Agency December 19, 2025 11:01 am Michael McLemore could feel severe weather coming to St. Louis on May 16. He was able to quickly pull his uncle and dog off his front porch in the Greater Ville seconds before the winds from the EF3 tornado ripped his porch and roof off. He filed an …
- FEMA Turmoil Continues as Review Council Cancels Vote on Recommendations December 18, 2025 10:51 pm With billions of dollars in grant money on the line, a Dec. 11 federal court ruling ordering FEMA's Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program to be reinstated was a victory for supporters of an agency under assault, but the victory may …
- Homeowners denied by Elevate Florida say they're tapping into life savings to raise their homes December 17, 2025 11:33 pm BONITA SPRINGS, Fla. — Florida homeowners say they are devastated after being denied from the Elevate Florida program, touted as a "first-of-its-kind" initiative to help protect homes from storm damage, according to its website. "All our …
- Flood insurance costs are rising. Florida keeps paying, other states drop it December 16, 2025 6:05 pm In spite of rising costs, Floridians aren’t ditching their flood insurance policies, a new study found. But the rest of the nation is dropping flood policies at a rate that could endanger the federal program that provides them. The study, published Tuesday …