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Severe Weather Flips Cars, Rips Roofs in Southeast

MOBILE, Ala. -- Winds whipped by a line of severe weather tore roofs off buildings, overturned cars and injured people as the system trudged across the Southeast on Wednesday. An apparent tornado heavily damaged several buildings and hurt people near Mobile in southwest Alabama, hours after three tornadoes were reported...

After Katrina: 'The Sanity We Have Now Is a Gift From God'

NEW ORLEANS (Aug. 29) -- By the time I arrived here from Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina hit, the Blackwater guards had settled in at the Sheraton on Canal Street. Some of them had rappelled into downtown from Blackhawk helicopters, or so they told us. We never knew if that was actually true, or if their tale was...

NASA Releases Eye-Opening Satellite View of Hurricane Katrina [VIDEO]

(Aug. 25) -- The approaching fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina is bringing with it iconic images and footage of the disaster that are no less stirring for their familiarity. A new video from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center showing the storm from its point of view belongs in an entirely different category -- and...

Bonnie Downgraded to Tropical Depression

(July 23) -- Tropical Storm Bonnie has been downgraded to a tropical depression, but forecasters say it could regain tropical storm strength when it moves into the Gulf of Mexico. Surge Desk answers your questions about the storm below. 1. Where is the tropical depression right now? As of 5 p.m. EDT, Tropical Storm...

Oil Fouls New Orleans' Lake Pontchartrain

(July 7) -- Oil seeping into New Orleans' Lake Pontchartrain from the Gulf of Mexico spill is threatening the pristine estuary's fragile ecosystem less than 20 years after what experts describe as a "dramatic turnabout" in its pollution levels. The fact that oil has turned up in the lake, a 630-square-mile inland bay...