Residents were taken by surprise when two tornado watches were issued in October 2024, a phenomenon relatively new to the island. The sudden alerts, includin ...
A little more than a week after tornados ripped through our communities, the story in one neighborhood isn’t so much about the damage left behind. It’s about the way the neighbors rallied around those ...
Emmanuel Ondrick was in the Spanish Lakes neighborhood when the tornado struck, resulting in the deaths of six people, as confirmed by the St. Lucie County sheriff. Ondrick was with his 91-year-old ...
“I speak for my colleagues around the state: It’s a rather simple formula – it’s hunker down, survive, and then we have to assess where we are with damages and make it work,” Brian Corley, the ...
Hurricane Milton’s death toll was highest far from the coast where it made landfall, in a retirement community where few were braced for destructive tornadoes.