Brian Thevenot

In the small city of Houma, Louisiana, about an hour southwest of New Orleans, volunteer rescue workers with a “Cajun Navy” group struggled in the wee hours of Monday to navigate streets strewn with trees toppled by Hurricane Ida’s ferocious winds.

The rain started pounding New Orleans about the time Jeff Carerras put on his morning pot of coffee. Before it was done brewing, floodwaters were lapping at the door of his bar, Tracey’s.

Utility crews stream into Florida for hurricane payday, adventure

ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters) - Nick Chilelli had been driving his utility truck with a broken air conditioner for about 18 hours, all the way from Cincinnati, when his convoy got trapped behind a car wreck just outside Orlando, Florida, at about 2 a.m. Saturday morning.

As I sat with Raeann Barber in the Houston convention centre, surrounded by nearly 10,000 refugees from Hurricane Harvey, we figured out that we had nearly crossed paths 12 years ago - to the day - in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans.

Aug 30, 2017 ... HOUSTON (Reuters) - As I sat with Raeann Barber in the Houston convention centre, surrounded by nearly 10000 refugees from Hurricane Harvey, ...

(Brian Thevenot is a Reuters journalist. He was part of The Times-Picayune team that won two Pulitzer Prizes for its coverage of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.)

Aug 28, 2017 ... Nine-year old Melody Rodriguez saw a snake swimming towards her through the floodwaters. Reginald James Jones, Jr., also nine, ...

Aug 27, 2017 ... When state emergency authorities pulled into the storm shelter in the small city of Rockport, Texas on Saturday, they asked the obvious ...

When state emergency authorities pulled into the storm shelter in the small city of Rockport, Texas on Saturday, they asked the obvious first question: Who’s in charge here?

For residents of Rockport who heeded warnings and evacuated the Texas beach town ahead of Hurricane Harvey, local officials had a simple message on Saturday - stay far away.

Craig Uggen stopped short in his white Ford lorry on Friday as gusting winds from Hurricane Harvey pushed waves from Corpus Christi Bay over the road. His anxiety rose with the water, now covering half his front wheels.

Craig Uggen stopped short in his white Ford truck on Friday as gusting winds from Hurricane Harvey pushed waves from Corpus Christi Bay over the road. His anxiety rose with the water, now covering half his front wheels.

Hurricane Harvey slammed into the Texas coast on Friday as a Category 4 storm, bringing life-threatening winds and the likelihood of catastrophic flooding as the most powerful storm in over a decade hit the mainland United States.