The owner of a tall ship that crashed into four other boats in Rhode Island after a seafood festival is blaming the incident on a dock line that became entangled on its two propellers. The SSV Oliver Hazard Perry crashed Sunday in Newport Harbor.
American International Group expects to record insurance losses of roughly $3 billion during the third quarter from the recent hurricanes and earthquakes.
Tropical Storm Nate formed off the coast of Nicaragua on Thursday and it was expected to drench parts of Central America and Mexico before potentially hitting the U.S. Gulf Coast as a hurricane over the weekend.
Preliminary data on the total cost of damage caused by Hurricanes Harvey and Irma is finally coming in, and analysts are projecting hundreds of billions in losses thanks to the damage caused by both weather events.
Following predictions of apocalyptic Hurricane Irma insurance losses, it appears as though the storm may be costly, but nowhere near the worst case scenario.
In the worst tidal surge since Hurricane Hugo, Irmas wide, whirling bands thrashed coastal South Carolina on Monday with stinging rains and punishing floods that put vast swaths of the Lowcountry under water.
Evacuees from Hurricane Irma were early on Wednesday returning to the Florida Keys, where sunrise will give them a first glimpse of devastation that has left countless homes and businesses in ruins.
The full breadth of Hurricane Irmas catastrophic attack on the Florida Keys is just now starting to emerge. Two days after Irma made landfall there, authorities and residents were finally able to reach some of the islands Tuesday.
Florida residents were racing to complete final preparations on Friday as Hurricane Irma, slightly weakened from its peak but still packing enormous destructive power, cast a dark shadow over the southern half of the Sunshine State.
Irma will regain strength as it moves away from Cuba, with winds predicted of more than 110mph by the time it reaches the Florida Keys early Sunday. The latest projections from the National Hurricane Center show the storm moving at about 9mph, with winds of 125mph, still over Cubas northern shore.
At 80 miles wide, with 155 mile per hour winds, Hurricane Irma is terrifying in its perfection, with warm, deep water and minimal wind shear helping it along.
Hurricane Irma was expected to strengthen Saturday after barreling into Cuba and shifting its path toward Florida. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) said Irma was located about 225 miles south of Miami with maximum sustained winds decreasing to 130 mph.
Hurricane Irma pounded Cubas northern coast on Saturday as it headed for Florida, where millions of residents were told to evacuate after the storm killed 22 people in the Caribbean and left devastation in its wake.
While how much damage Hurricane Irma will cause once it hits land is still very much in doubt, one scenario has emerged that puts the cost at record levels.
The eye of Hurricane Irma grazed the Turks and Caicos Islands on Thursday, rattling buildings after it smashed a string of Caribbean islands as one of the most powerful Atlantic storms in a century, killing 14 people on its way to Florida.