Hurricanes and Tropical Storms

Millions of mosquito eggs laid across southern Texas after Hurricane Ike hit the coast last summer are waiting for the little bit of rain and hot summer days they need to hatch. That's got the man whose job it is to fight the bugs worried — he's already running out of money.

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts (Reuters) - The Caribbean's small island states ride out hurricanes year after year, but they are fighting to stay afloat in a global economic storm that is battering rich and poor nations alike.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A tropical wave over the western Caribbean Sea between Honduras and Cuba has a moderate chance -- 30 to 50 percent -- of developing into a tropical cyclone over the next 48 hours, the U.S. National Hurricane Center forecast Friday.

MANILA (AFP) - At least eight people were killed while 12 others remained missing after tropical storm Nangka swept through the central and northern Philippines, officials said on Thursday.

WASHINGTON - The Federal Emergency Management Agency ignored the law and misused millions of dollars to build two warehouses after hurricanes Katrina and Rita, according to government investigators.

PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico - The remnants of Tropical Storm Andres were dissipating over the Pacific on Wednesday after flooding homes and killing at least one person on Mexico's southwestern coast.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Andres, the first hurricane of the eastern Pacific season, has weakened to a tropical depression, the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said on Wednesday.

MIAMI (AFP) - Andres has become the first hurricane of the season in the Pacific Ocean, the National Hurricane Center said on Tuesday as the storm moved toward the west coast of Mexico.

MEXICO CITY (AFP) - Tropical storm Andres churned past beach resorts up Mexico's southwest Pacific coast on Monday as forecasters issued a warning and said it could grow into a hurricane.

NEW ORLEANS - After Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin figured he could get through just about anything. But being held in quarantine in China amid swine flu concerns on what was supposed to be a simple economic development trip?

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Alabama has a message for its neighbors: Don't count on us next time you need shelter from a storm. And it's not because Louisiana evacuees made a mess last time they came.

NEW ORLEANS - Top brass at the Army Corps of Engineers say the estimated price of a major project to build three floodgates and a 1.8-mile storm surge barrier to protect New Orleans from hurricanes is now $1.8 billion.

NEW ORLEANS - Jessie Pullins is certain J.J. recognized him when the door to his dog cage swung open, reuniting them for the first time since Hurricane Katrina struck nearly four years ago.