The National Hurricane Center reports Ida weakened to a tropical storm on Monday morning. The system is still expected to bring large amounts of rain - and possible flooding - to the Carolinas on Tuesday.

20 years after the Hugo Hurricane

Major storm is centered about 460 miles east of the Leeward Islands and moving west-northwest near 16 mph.

Hurricane Bill picked up strength in the open Atlantic as it churned on a path toward Bermuda/

It’s been quiet since a very early tropical depression, but it’s too early to declare this hurricane season a quiet one.

Well-known family physician made headlines when her rural health clinic was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.

South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford
has told coastal residents that state and local governments are
prepared to deal with hurricanes but people must do their part as
well.

South Carolina’s governor is taking a tour of the state’s coastal areas to talk about making sure residents and officials alike will be ready if a hurricane hits the state.

South Carolina’s governor is taking a tour of the state’s coastal areas to talk about making sure residents and officials alike will be ready if a hurricane hits the state.

Hurricane season is here, and meteorologists will be meeting in Atlanta beginnning tomorrow to discuss the impacts hurricanes can have on INLAND locations like ours.

While you watch Hanna’s arrival on the Carolina coast, between 10 pm and 1 am, make sure to keep logged onto my blog so you can watch minute by minute live updates coming in from the coast. 

The latest from a South Carolinian in New Orleans, Plus new resources for you to track Gustav

  In your prayers this weekend, I ask you to remember Kim and Jack Williams of Ocean Springs, Mississippi.

    Three years ago, their dream home was destroyed… leveled… by Hurricane Katrina.  They lost nearly all their possessions.  You may remember the special report photojournalist Jason Parker and I did, as we followed Linda and Jim Brown of Inman taking a vanload of supplies to their friends, the Williams.  The destruction we witnessed was amazing, and we never got to see the worst of it in the New Orleans area.

Conditions are in place for another active hurricane season, and government scientists think 2008 will have an above-average number of storms.