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Share on Facebook Tweet on Twitter TX (ABC) — Hurricane Hanna has formed in the Gulf of Mexico as a Category 1 hurricane with sustained winds of 75 mph around the eye wall. Hanna is strengthening and the National Hurricane Center says it is expected to make landfall in southern Texas on Saturday evening. – Advertisement – Conditions along the southwestern Gulf coast, in particular southern Texas, are expected to deteriorate through Saturday. The main…

WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — The American Red Cross is in need of volunteers amid the COVID-19 pandemic to prepare for and help with hurricane season as it approaches. “The coronavirus pandemic may make it challenging to deploy trained disaster volunteers from other parts of the country should an emergency occur. In light of this, the Red Cross is asking you to be ready to help your community,” said Barry Porter, Regional CEO, American Red Cross…

Volunteers help pack residents cars with hurricane preparedness resources. (Photo: Monique Robinson/WWAY) WILMINGTON,NC (WWAY) — Stand-still traffic on Randall Parkway and South College Road early Saturday morning, as cars waited to pick up their hurricane preparedness buckets. New Hanover County Disaster Coalition Executive Director Audrey Hart says residents were lined up at 6:30 a-m. – Advertisement – Harbor United Methodist Church and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints were the two pick up…

Hunter Ingram @HunterIngramSN Friday Jul 10, 2020 at 12:28 PM FEMA’s share of more than $1.9 million comes from its Public Assistance program TOPSAIL BEACH – The town of Topsail Beach has been reimbursed by the state and FEMA for more than $2.5 million spent on renourishing its shore after Hurricane Dorian. On Friday, FEMA announced it had approved more than $1.9 million in funding and the state will contribute more than $640,000 for the project, which replaced more than…

MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Fay has slightly picked up speed and strength as it moves closer to land and forecasters decreased projections for rain totals and flooding. The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami says Fay is expected to bring 2 to 4 inches of rain with the possibility of flash flooding in parts of the mid-Atlantic and southern New England. That’s down from earlier forecasts of 3 to 5 inches. – Advertisement –…

But Tropical Storm Fay won’t be hanging around the Tar Heel State for very long A new tropical storm, the sixth of the young Atlantic hurricane season, formed off the North Carolina coast Thursday afternoon. But Tropical Storm Fay isn’t expected to cause many problems beyond some localized heavy rain, especially along the Outer Banks, and choppy surf that could lead to rip current concerns. As of 5 p.m. Thursday, Fay was located roughly 40…

Jackson Fuller @StarNewsVarsity Monday Jul 6, 2020 at 1:02 PM The National Weather Service said some areas in coastal North Carolina could receive five or six inches of rain. WILMINGTON — A tropical disturbance from the south is set to impact the Wilmington area and could cause localized street flooding, according to a Monday press release from the National Weather Service in Wilmington. According to the press release, a tropical storm from the Gulf of Mexico could bring occasionally heavy…

WASHINGTON (AP) — A government watchdog says the Commerce Department is trying to block the findings of an investigation into the agency’s role in rebuking forecasters who contradicted President Donald Trump’s inaccurate claims about the path of Hurricane Dorian last year. The accusation comes from Peggy Gustafson, the inspector general for the Commerce Department. It’s the latest turn in a saga that led the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to chastise government forecasters who contradicted…

National park faces challenge to preserve the Revolutionary War battlefield as flooding persists CURRIE – Nearly 250 years ago, members of the Patriot militia of Southeastern North Carolina hid silently under cover of morning fog in the brush around Moores Creek Bridge. Muskets in hand, they waited until the Loyalist militia, predominantly made up of broadsword-carrying Scottish Highlanders, attempted to cross the booby-trapped bridge before they pulled their triggers and fired their cannons. The dizzyingly…

Flooding in Hurricane Florence (Photo: WTVD) (CBS News) — Think the risk of your home filling up with floodwater, magnified these days by climate change, is only an issue near the coasts and rivers? New research detailing nearly every corner of the U.S. shows otherwise. Researchers from Brooklyn-based nonprofit First Street teamed with more than 80 experts in real estate, insurance and academia to compile an unprecedented flood database extensively augmenting existing federal information. For the first…

NEW HANOVER COUNTY, NC (WWAY) — It’s been nearly two years and some people are still struggling to recover. That includes residents with housing issues. Some Hurricane Florence victims are finally moving back into their homes. – Advertisement – Many of their items were destroyed, so the Cape Fear Volunteer Center put out a plea for donations. “There was so many texts coming in, it was…and the other phone was ringing. I told you to…

Assistance available to repair, rebuild and elevate damaged homes. The state on Monday opened a new program to help people repair and replace their homes that were damaged or destroyed by Hurricane Florence in 2018 or Hurricane Matthew in 2016, Gov. Roy Cooper said. The new Rebuild NC Homeowner Recovery Program program uses federal hurricane relief money and is available to people who owned and occupied their homes during either storm, the program’s website says….