Local television news forecast the storm up and down the coast. But after it struck, the cone of coverage felt like it narrowed
It is now long gone from Florida, but the unwelcome guest left the state a mess that will take days, weeks and months to clean up.
We investigated three patents on the list, and they didn’t show humans can control weather features such as hurricanes
Poynter has more than 50 employees in the Tampa Bay region and southwest Florida, and roughly half were in the area when Milton hit
No Times employees were in the building at the time
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Current FEMA funding for migrants does not come at disaster relief’s expense. Congress funds the migrant and disaster relief programs separately.Â
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