hurricane laura

This year we have seen the busiest hurricane season on record with 29 named storms.

While 2020 set a record for the number of named storms, some could argue this wasn’t the worst hurricane season ever. NBC 5 Meteorologist Samantha Davies explains.

Dallas-based nonprofit Texas Baptist Men have been dealing with a particularly tough year as their mission to serve continues during the pandemic and devastating storms.

Hurricane Laura evacuees who have been sheltering in Dallas will have to pick up and move again by Monday afternoon as the Red Cross consolidates its space from five hotels to two.

Hurricane Laura evacuees who have been sheltering in Dallas will have to pick up and move again by Monday afternoon as the Red Cross consolidates its space from five hotels to two.

Louisiana residents are once again dodging overturned cars on the roads, trudging through knee-deep water to find their homes flooded and pledging to rebuild after Hurricane Delta blew through the besieged part of the state.

The hurricane is expected to make landfall near Lake Charles, La., Friday, just six weeks after Hurricane Laura pummeled the same area.

Hurricane Delta made landfall near Creole, La., as a Category 2 storm with 100 mph winds

Dallas ISD added 100 new students Tuesday with dozens more expected to enroll Wednesday as Hurricane Laura evacuees prepare to join North Texas classrooms. NBC 5’s Candace Sweat reports.

Dallas ISD added 100 new students Tuesday with dozens more expected to enroll Wednesday as Hurricane Laura evacuees prepare to join North Texas classrooms.

Thousands of Hurricane Laura Evacuees are currently being housed in hotels throughout the DFW area. But they said the arrival of additional daily necessities has been slow. NBC 5’s Candace Sweat reports.

Thousands of Hurricane Laura Evacuees are currently being housed in hotels throughout the DFW area. But they said the arrival of additional daily necessities has been slow.

The State and City of Dallas are working to move roughly 5,000 evacuees from nearly 40 North Texas hotels into a few larger properties in Dallas. Evacuees tell NBC 5’s Candace Sweat the process has been anything but smooth.

Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson said Wednesday his city is working with the state of Texas to consolidate and house thousands of Hurricane Laura evacuees in three Dallas hotels. NBC 5’s Ken Kalthoff reports.

Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson said Wednesday his city is working with the state of Texas to consolidate and house thousands of Hurricane Laura evacuees in three Dallas hotels. Johnson made the announcement during a news conference Wednesday afternoon, telling the evacuees “this has, without a doubt, been a challenging year for you and we want to make this latest transition…

Hurricane Laura caused significant damage at a site holding about 30% of the nation’s store of emergency crude oil, but three other sites still have plenty of petroleum, U.S. Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette said Wednesday.

Two men in their 40s died in Louisiana from what health officials said was heat-related illness while clearing debris from Hurricane Laura, bringing the number of deaths blamed on the storm in the state to 22, NBC News reports.

Two more deaths in Louisiana have been blamed on Hurricane Laura, which made landfall there last month as a Category 4 storm, bringing the deaths in that state to at least 19, officials said. The new deaths in Rapides Parish, involved people who died from medical conditions that were exacerbated by excessive heat and the loss of electricity, the Louisiana…

On Wednesday, workers at the World Vision warehouse in Grand Prairie filled a truck with disaster relief supplies, bound for Lake Charles, Louisiana, which was impacted by Hurricane Laura.

Hundreds of thousands are without power in the areas hardest hit by Hurricane Laura, and sweltering heat is making matters worse.