Hurricane

Snapped concrete electric poles and overturned trucks in ditches offered evidence of the twisters' power.

Forecasters said seawater could rise as high as 13 feet (4 meters).

Officials orders more than 1 million people to flee before it slams into the Tampa Bay area.

More than a million people were ordered to evacuate from its path.

The powerful storm inundated the state with catastrophic flooding, destroying pipes, damaging water plants and cutting off power.

Hurricane Helene knocks out power for millions, destroying roads and bridges and causing dramatic flooding from Florida to Virginia.

Ernesto is the fifth named Atlantic storm of what is expected to be an intense hurricane season.

Tropical Storm Beryl brought howling winds and torrential rain, flooding highways, closing oil ports, canceling more than 1,300 flights.

The hurricane's center will cross the Windward Islands as a Category 4 storm, the second-strongest on a five-step scale.

Looting broke out as food, water and gasoline become scarce after the destruction caused by Otis killed 48 people, with six people missing.

Hammering the beach resort of Acapulco, the damage from Hurricane Otis has run into billions of dollars.

Otis was blowing maximum sustained winds of 160 mph (257 kph) and was expected to bring heavy rain capable of "catastrophic damage," the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.

Hurricane Idalia plowed into Florida's Gulf Coast with howling winds, torrential rains and pounding surf.

The storm's growing intensity and its northerly track put some 14 million Floridians under hurricane and tropical storm warnings.

Winds from Hurricane Dora, hundreds of miles southwest of the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean, have fanned the flames across Hawaii.