Traci Cloyd and Monica May are at our sister stations in Orlando and Miami. Monica May from 94.5 in Orlando says, “we got the brunt of it. It sounded like trains were coming through. We talked about people in the hood being stranded. They are in their homes in knee-deep water.” Traci Cloyd from Hot […]
Roland checks in with Weather Channel meteorologist Paul Goodloe who is getting drenched with rain in Naples, Fl. Hurricane Irma has produced wind speeds of 142 mph and Goodloe says, “This is a historic hurricane. The damage with this thing is tremendous.” First responders according to Goodloe cannot go out for rescues once winds get up […]
MIAMI (AP) — Hurricane Irma gave Florida a coast-to-coast pummeling with winds up to 130 mph Sunday, swamping homes and boats, knocking out power to millions and toppling massive construction cranes over the Miami skyline. The 400-mile-wide (640-kilometer-wide) storm blew ashore in the mostly cleared-out Florida Keys, then marched up its western coast, its punishing […]
MIAMI (AP) — The race to flee Hurricane Irma became a marathon nightmare as more than a half-million people were ordered to leave South Florida on Thursday. With the storm barreling toward the tip of Florida for perhaps a catastrophic blow this weekend, normally quick trips turned into daylong journeys on crowded highways amid a […]
What was supposed to be a much-needed girls trip has turned into a nightmare for a group of Black women vacationing in the Caribbean.
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Hurricane Irma has killed at least 10 people as the dangerous Category 5 storm continued its destructive march across the Caribbean early Thursday. At least eight people were killed and 23 injured in French Caribbean island territories, France’s interior minister said. Speaking Thursday on French radio France Info, French […]
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Hurricane Irma lashed Puerto Rico with heavy rain and powerful winds late Wednesday, leaving nearly 900,000 people without power as authorities struggled to get aid to small Caribbean islands already devastated by the historic storm. Florida rushed to prepare for a possible direct hit on the Miami area by […]
Lt. General Russel Honore is known for leading the Defense Department response during Hurricane Katrina. He’s been in Houston helping out with efforts after Hurricane Harvey. He said, “I worked a little with the Cajun Navy. Spent most of the day riding in and around the Houston area talking to people. It has put about a third […]
ST. JOHN’S, Antigua (AP) — The most powerful Atlantic Ocean hurricane in recorded history bore down on the islands of the northeast Caribbean late Tuesday, following a path predicted to then rake Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Cuba before possibly heading for Florida over the weekend. At the far northeastern edge of the […]
