meteorological disasters
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President Obama's latest climate change plan may prove helpful but U.S. will need to do much more to address the coming storm - Weather disasters including tornadoes, the derecho storm and Hurricane Sandy caused at least $48 million in property and crop damages in Maryland last year, the costliest since 2003, according to data released Thursday.
- An increasing number of Americans are buying generators, backup sump pumps and other storm-prep items after the last few years of damaging weather.
- Members of Maryland's congressional delegation asked the Obama administration on Thursday to reconsider its decision to deny federal disaster aid to Garrett County residents walloped by an October snow storm.
- Baltimore Gas & Electric on Wednesday donated $317,883 to groups across the state that BGE President and CEO Kenneth DeFontes Jr. considers the utility company's "kindred spirits:" Maryland's emergency responders.
- Emergency responders prepared for Hurricane Sandy's worst and got crises in Garrett County and Crisfield.
- Four heat-related deaths were reported Wednesday in Maryland, bringing the heat wave and storms' death toll to 11.
- Seven deaths have been linked to a heat wave and related derecho storm that tore through Maryland, and politicians are urging utilities to speed their work.
- State officials need to closely scrutinize BGE's and Pepco's performance following last week's storm — and their follow-up communications with customers.
- Deadly storm leaves 257,000 still powerless in 100-degree heat
- More than 308,000 BGE customers remained without power Sunday, and some should be prepared to wait days for it to be restored, following deadly storms that ripped through Maryland and the Mid-Atlantic, weather and emergency management officials said.
- The violence of Friday night's storm blindsided everyone from meteorologists to utility crews.
- The flooding in Harford and Cecil counties caused by Tropical Storm Agnes 40 years ago this week is considered among the worst of all time in both Harford and Cecil counties.
- Forty years after Tropical Storm Agnes caused massive flooding in Laurel, residents still remember the devastation, and city officials say the area is better prepared for storms.
- The Hampden Hurricane at the The Food Market: a subtle twist on a New Orleans favorite
- People can't make informed investment decisions unless corporations disclose the financial risks they face from climate change
- A tropical depression has formed in the Pacific, giving hurricane season an early start, but a system in the Atlantic is unlikely to develop further.
- AccuWeather.com is forecasting a relatively quiet Atlantic hurricane season, predicting a dozen named storms, including two major hurricanes.
- Elkridge: There are plenty of stories where a single negative incident can give a bad rap to an entire group of people, whole communities, schools, etc. And, for every one of those negatives, there are plenty of amazingly positive people and outreach efforts that, in my opinion, effectively reinstate the good in humankind.
- It's been 40 years since a massive hurricane battered Ellicott City, the Howard County seat.
- Hurricane forecasters at Colorado State University are calling for a below-average hurricane season this year, with 10 expected named storms and about a one in four chance a major hurricane will hit the East Coast.
- Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski on Wednesday likened the loss of the USNS Comfort to the departure of the Baltimore Colts ¿ and asked Navy Secretary Ray Mabus to reconsider.
- The Ash Wednesday Storm of 1962 devastated Ocean City but helped shape future development there and conservation on Assateague Island.
- Iran is threatening action that could have shattering consequences for our oil supply; where is our plan for dealing with that crisis?
- Constellation has helped American Red Cross and Baltimore and continues to do so
- When a major disaster strikes, the Federal Emergency Management Agency must be ready to deal with it regardless of the cost
- Even though a hurricane hasn't struck the U.S. since 2008, FEMA warns people not to be complacent
- Sprinter Tyler Badie returns to his native New Orleans to compete in AAU Junior Olympics 11-year-old and his family moved to Randallstown after Hurricane Katrina
- In the lucid, infuriating 'Big Uneasy,' Harry Shearer proves there was nothing "natural" about the 2005 disaster in New Orleans
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