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Winchester, VA - Hurricane Nate made landfall in southeastern Louisiana late Saturday night, and then again in Biloxi, Mississippi on early Sunday morning as a Category 1 hurricane.  It was the first hurricane to make landfall in Mississippi since Katrina in 2005. The Associated Press reports that over 100,000 residents in Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana and Florida lost power in the storm, however no storm deaths or injuries have been reported. There […]

Winchester, VA - Florida is trying to pick up the pieces after Hurricane Irma swept through the state with a fury this past weekend. Some airports are open for business, and curfews are being lifted. Figures of how many are going without power abound, with the Weather Channel saying 60% of the state, and the Associated Press saying 9.5 million, or just under half of the state's population. Over 300 people […]

Winchester, VA - And now an update on Hurricane Irma. As of 8 A.M. Atlantic Standard Time this morning, Irma's maximum sustained windspeed had dropped slightly to 180 mph and the eye of the storm was moving west-northwestward off the northern coast of Hispaniola at 17 mph, headed for the Turk and Caicos Islands. It is still too early to tell where in Florida Irma might make landfall, but as of […]