Natural Disasters

President Joe Biden said he and first lady Jill Biden will travel to Houston, Texas, on Friday, after a deadly winter storm struck the state last week.

While the IRS had said it has no plans to extend the standard April 15 filing deadline, taxpayers in declared disaster areas will get a reprieve.

As power resumes for most of Texas, some households now face utility bills as high as $10,000.

“It would have been three miserable days without the truck,” Jerry Hall, 73, of Kerrville, Texas, said in a phone interview.

President Joe Biden plans to visit Texas next week as millions of residents there continue struggling with power outages after a major winter storm.

Sen. Ted Cruz went on vacation to Cancun, Mexico, as people in Texas dealt with electrical power outages and very cold weather.

Extreme winter weather in the South and resulting power outages increase demand for generators, Generac CEO Aaron Jagdfeld said.

This year’s first major snowstorm has left cities buried in snow.

Extreme rainfall fueled by climate change has caused nearly $75 billion in flood damage in the U.S. in the past three decades, a new study shows.

The six costliest disasters of 2020 occurred in the U.S., topped by Hurricane Laura’s devastation, which caused $13 billion in damage after hitting Louisiana.

Riverside County has landed in the top 10 of an unenviable list — the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s rankings of the riskiest counties in America.

U.S. experts have calculated the riskiest and safest counties in the country for disasters, and Los Angeles is on the shakiest ground

The environmental measures attached to the Covid-19 relief bill mark the first significant climate change legislation to pass in the U.S. in about a decade.

An unforgiving hurricane season shattered records this year and battered parts of Central America and the U.S. Gulf Coast.

Hurricane Eta, forecast to redevelop and head toward Florida next week, is the 28th named storm of this season. Eta’s intensity is rare for a November storm. 

“Gator Girl” Kristy Kroboth talks about the massive alligator spotted at the Valencia Golf and Country Club in Naples, Florida.

NBC 7’s Marianne Kushi speaks with Lucy Jones, aka “The Earthquake Lady” about how the U.S. is handling the coronavirus pandemic. Jones has a new podcast dedicated to getting through these tumultuous times.

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