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The remains of a man who has been missing since Hurricane Ian hit Florida's Gulf Coast last year have been recovered from a sunken sailboat. James "Denny" Hurst, 72, had told his family he planned to ride out the storm on the sailboat "Good Girl."
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Across central Florida, communities are considering how to move forward after hurricanes Ian and Nicole left widespread flooding and damage.
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The U.S. endured 18 separate billion-dollar disasters in 2022, highlighting the growing damages of human-caused climate change.
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Florida’s emergency-management director wants lawmakers to make changes to help with disaster preparation and response.
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Florida lawmakers will take up a massive property insurance bill that would create a $1 billion reinsurance fund, seek to reduce insurance lawsuits and force more people out of the state-created insurer of last resort.
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Florida has an exploding population on the coast, while climate change raises the risk of hurricanes with deadly coastal flooding. That combination may one day force the conversation on retreating from these dangerous places, but for now, the focus remains on how we will rebuild.
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Small business owners share obstacles to recovery as SBA disaster lending in Florida hits $1 billionSmall business owners in the greater Tampa Bay region and nearby counties are approved to receive $900 million in lending — so far — to help in recovery from Hurricane Ian.
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As Florida lawmakers try to stabilize the troubled property-insurance system next month, they could face worsening problems with reinsurance, a critical part of the system. Overall reinsurance prices are expected to increase by more than 10 percent in 2023, due to disasters such as Hurricane Ian and “increasing frequency and severity of natural catastrophe claims.”
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With the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season ending next week, state officials are looking at potential changes after Florida got hit by its deadliest storm in nearly nine decades.
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As many as 300 people will wake up Thanksgiving morning in a shelter in North Fort Myers. Many of those displaced by Hurricane Ian have been living in shelters for nearly eight weeks.