…help from FEMA, plans to harden the power grid so it can withstand hurricanes with 200-mile-per-hour winds, FEMA said. The federal agency added that critical transmission lines will be placed underground; a significant number of w…
…home repairs and other serious disaster-related expenses from Hurricanes Irma and Maria. While the jury is still out on whether this is indeed enough to meet our disaster recovery needs, many are starting to realize that neither F…
…for businesses and residents of the Virgin Islands affected by Hurricane Irma. “Currently, 14 disaster loans have been approved in the amount of $1,328,000 for affected survivors. The SBA encourages anyone who has not applied to t…
…Wednesday evening addressed the community on the government's post Hurricane Irma efforts so far. Mr. Mapp started his talk by recognizing the Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority (W.A.P.A.) lineman, identified by the governor…
…other northern Leeward Islands were spared the wrath of category 4 Hurricane Jose, after the storm made a turn to the right and farther away from the U.S. Virgin Islands and British Virgin Islands, even as it continues on its nort…
…and St. John today, seeing for himself the damage left behind by Hurricane Irma, whose sights are now set on Florida. It was Mr. Mapp's first visit to the St. Thomas-St. John District since the storm's passing, and during a press …
Below, find the latest update on post Hurricane Irma relief efforts, as made available by the government's Emergency Operations Center late Friday morning: The American Red Cross has established a helpline to aid with family reuni…
…except for locally higher seas. According to the National Hurricane Center, morning satellite imagery shows the low pressure system, centered at about 550 miles east of the Lesser Antilles, had become better organized overnight. B…
Just as Gert, now a category 1 hurricane, moves away from affecting land and heads north between the U.S. East Coast and Bermuda, another weather system, which the National Hurricane Center says has a small chance of becoming a tr…
…he said Tropical Storm Erika Devastates Dominica Dominica's Hugo was Hurricane David, which ravaged through the island on August 29, 1979 -- some 36 years ago almost to the day. "It's more than the country can handle," Bruno said …
Hurricane Danny has continued to lose momentum after peaking at a category 3 hurricane packing 115 miles per hour winds. It has now decreased to 100 miles per hour, and is expected to arrive in the territory as a tropical storm, a…
Hurricane Danny has been downgraded to a Category 2 hurricane and more weakening is expected over the next few days as the weather system encounters more conditions that are unfavorable for development, according to a press releas…
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