…in a small boat in the Caribbean with a group of people seeing the hurricane ravaged U.S. Virgin Islands. Before Hurricane Irma ripped through his home country Sept. 6, 2017, Knight had no idea his senior year of high school would…
…are available to help eligible Virgin Islanders recover from hurricanes Irma and Maria, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced today. FEMA and its federal partners continue to support efforts by the U.S. Virgin I…
…to deploy to the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico in response to Hurricane Maria, E.P.A. announced Thursday. An EPA On-Scene Coordinator is currently in St. Croix reporting island conditions and coordinating with federal partne…
…died today, while working in the Sugar Estate area as part of a hurricane restoration crew. W.A.P.A. Executive Director, Julio Rhymer, ordered an immediate halt of hurricane restoration work slated for Wednesday territory-wide, in…
…Coordination Center, Government House has announced. The subject was hurricane preparedness. The conference call provided the opportunity for the president, the DHS acting secretary, the administrator of the Federal Emergency Mana…
Hurricane researchers at Colorado State University have forecast a slightly below average 2017 hurricane season in its annual predictions. In their first predictions of the year, the CSU team is predicting 11 named storms during t…
…week issued the results of their research into the 2016 Atlantic hurricane season, predicting 12 named storms, five of which will form into hurricanes. That prediction classifies as near-average based on weather records dating to …
…in the Atlantic on Sunday, has turned into a full-fledged hurricane on Monday night. According to the latest forecast from the National Weather Service, Gonzalo is now carrying maximum sustained winds of 75 mph, making it a Catego…
The Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico are now under hurricane watch as tropical storm Gonzalo, only recently named a tropical storm, has been gaining strength rapidly and is now bearing down on the Islands. Tropical Storm Gonzalo is …
…Storm Jerry, the 10th named storm of the season, could become a hurricane within two days as it moves toward the northern Leeward Islands. Residents of the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico are urged to monitor updates.
While crews work through rotating outages across the district, Hurricane Erin, now a terrifying Category 5 with 160 mph winds, continues to threaten the Virgin Islands with dangerous surf and heavy rains—Buck Island, St. Thomas re…
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