/tags/hurricane-irma Hurricane Irma en-US Copyright Wed, 15 Jan 2020 21:39:33 GMT /news-partners/2020-01-15/months-after-blowing-deadline-trump-administration-lifts-hold-on-puerto-rico-aid HUD says it is releasing more than $8 billion in aid to Puerto Rico. The deadline to do so was in September. The aid is for rebuilding after devastating Hurricanes Maria and Irma struck in 2017. Wed, 15 Jan 2020 21:39:33 GMT /news-partners/2020-01-15/months-after-blowing-deadline-trump-administration-lifts-hold-on-puerto-rico-aid Brakkton Booker /2017-10-22/5-living-ex-presidents-appear-on-stage-for-hurricane-relief-concert Democrats Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter and Republicans George H.W. and George W. Bush were on stage in College Station, Texas, to try to unite the country after the recent storms. Sun, 22 Oct 2017 07:23:00 GMT /2017-10-22/5-living-ex-presidents-appear-on-stage-for-hurricane-relief-concert Doreen McCallister /breaking-news/2017-09-29/3-weeks-after-irma-wrecked-barbuda-island-lifts-mandatory-evacuation-order Barbuda was the first place Hurricane Irma made landfall as the Category 5 storm devastated a string of islands along the Caribbean earlier this month. Fri, 29 Sep 2017 18:10:00 GMT /breaking-news/2017-09-29/3-weeks-after-irma-wrecked-barbuda-island-lifts-mandatory-evacuation-order Bill Chappell /2017-09-17/one-week-after-irma-floridians-pick-up-the-pieces One week after Hurricane Irma slammed Florida, residents of Collier County are in the early stages of the recovery process. Sun, 17 Sep 2017 11:59:00 GMT /2017-09-17/one-week-after-irma-floridians-pick-up-the-pieces Meredith Rizzo /news/2017-09-11/evacuated-from-florida-adoptable-animals-scatter-around-ohio Hundreds of pets from Florida are being offered for adoption around the state of Ohio after arriving in Columbus this weekend before Hurricane Irma.Of the… Mon, 11 Sep 2017 13:52:44 GMT /news/2017-09-11/evacuated-from-florida-adoptable-animals-scatter-around-ohio Kabir Bhatia /news-partners/npr-news/2017-09-10/the-rubble-and-recovery-of-u-s-virgin-islands-will-we-survive-the-aftermath Irma's earliest American victims fear they will be forgotten by the mainland. Largely reduced to wreckage, the U.S. territory is now struggling to pick up the pieces. Sun, 10 Sep 2017 23:43:00 GMT /news-partners/npr-news/2017-09-10/the-rubble-and-recovery-of-u-s-virgin-islands-will-we-survive-the-aftermath Colin Dwyer /news/2017-09-08/raining-cats-and-dogs-florida-shelters-fly-animals-to-columbus-before-hurricane Just in time to escape the coming hurricane, a plane full of potential pets is set to arrive in Columbus from south Florida on Friday evening.The Humane… Fri, 08 Sep 2017 20:10:18 GMT /news/2017-09-08/raining-cats-and-dogs-florida-shelters-fly-animals-to-columbus-before-hurricane Clare Roth /breaking-news/2017-09-08/hurricanes-are-sweeping-the-atlantic-whats-the-role-of-climate-change Warmer waters and air are playing a role in this year's monster storms. Fri, 08 Sep 2017 11:19:00 GMT /breaking-news/2017-09-08/hurricanes-are-sweeping-the-atlantic-whats-the-role-of-climate-change Christopher Joyce /breaking-news/2017-09-07/as-irma-passes-dominican-republic-florida-girds-for-the-coming-storm Down graded to a Category 4, Irma's brutal churn through the Caribbean is aimed at Florida, where the National Hurricane Center says it's more likely to make landfall as a "dangerous major hurricane." Thu, 07 Sep 2017 12:06:00 GMT /breaking-news/2017-09-07/as-irma-passes-dominican-republic-florida-girds-for-the-coming-storm Bill Chappell, Colin Dwyer /news-partners/npr-news/2017-09-07/flamingos-in-the-mens-room-how-zoos-and-aquariums-handle-hurricanes When you're building a zoo disaster plan, there's one thing to keep in mind: If anything can go wrong, it will. Thu, 07 Sep 2017 11:02:00 GMT /news-partners/npr-news/2017-09-07/flamingos-in-the-mens-room-how-zoos-and-aquariums-handle-hurricanes Danielle Nett