Brianna Sacks

• Extreme Weather

As residents had to grit through Hurricanes Helene and Milton, many were reminded of the devastation from Hurricane Ian.

• Extreme Weather

Experts credited Florida officials and weather forecasters with learning from past disasters to improve how they communicated the storm’s risks and uncertainties. Many, it seemed, listened.

Reporter Brianna Sacks saw people driving on flooded roads near Tampa on Oct. 10 after Hurricane Milton made landfall.

• Climate

The directive issued just before Hurricane Milton’s landfall aims to protect homeowners against “unfair and deceptive acts” by insurers handling disaster claims.

Washington Post reporter Brianna Sacks showed the heavy rain and strong winds in Tampa, Fla. after Hurricane Milton made landfall.

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A week after Helene, congregations gathered on front lawns, in Zoom conferences and in other informal meeting spaces.

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Valdosta, Ga., has been hammered by multiple storms in quick succession, exposing vulnerabilities that will make recovery efforts harder and longer.

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“A hundred years from now, they will be talking about this flood,” said one resident in Western North Carolina, where the extent of the disaster is only beginning to emerge.

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Before this scenic, rustic Great Smoky Mountains refuge turned into a trap few residents saw coming, there were signs of Hurricane Helene’s unthinkable potential.