When the fiercest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic is bearing down on you, a salvaged armchair under a wood-and-tin awning might seem a poor choice of shelter. But that's where Don E.

This story appears in the September 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. By the time Hurricane Sandy veered toward the Northeast coast of the United States last October 29, it had mauled ...

Depending on where they form, tropical storms are also known as hurricanes, cyclones and typhoons. Tropical storms form over warm oceans and travel from east to west. Tropical storms bring with ...

The very geography of the gulf puts communities along its shore at increased risk from strengthening storms. A hurricane forming in the Atlantic or Caribbean has more open water to tread and ...

Depending where they occur they are also known as hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones. Tropical storms can cause devastation to a region which will require responses. The responses can be immediate ...

Hurricane Harvey also witnessed the widespread use of social media by the general public in response to this major disaster, and geographic locations are key information pieces described in many of ...