Damage

NEW YORK (AP) — Superstorm Sandy is winding down and inching its way inland, leaving at least 17 people in seven states dead and more than 7 million power outages in its wake. New York was one of the hardest hit areas when an unprecedented 13-foot surge of seawater — 3 feet above the previous record — caused the worst damage in the 108-year history of the city's subway system...

WASHINGTON (AP) — As President Barack Obama surveys damage from raging wildfires and thanks first responders in Colorado on Friday, he also will be seeking to convince voters in one of the nation's most tightly contested political swing states that he is a compassionate leader who can command in a crisis...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Authorities say it remains too dangerous for them to fully assess the damage from a destructive wildfire threatening Colorado's second-largest city. Colorado Springs emergency management director Brett Waters said Wednesday morning that officials don't know how many houses have been destroyed in the blaze that has forced mandatory evacuations for more than 32,000 res

DENVER (AP) — Authorities have begun assessing damage after a powerful, slow-moving storm skipped through eastern El Paso County for more than three hours on Thursday, damaging homes and cars. The National Weather Service says a rare, backwards-spinning tornado was observed south of Ramah...

Only one injury has been reported from a twister that touched down near Wheatland

JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — People in Jackson are cleaning up after a thunderstorm knocked over some large trees and downed hundreds of branches. At least four large cottonwood trees fell around Jackson Hole High School in Monday afternoon's storm...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — At least 15 people were injured and at least 60 buildings damaged when a possible tornado struck two counties in western North Carolina, the National Weather Service said Thursday. The storms struck in Rutherford and Burke counties late Wednesday afternoon as a cold front moved through the western Carolinas, meteorologist Neil Dixon with the weather service office in Greer, S.

WASHINGTON (AP) — America's wild weather year has hit yet another new high: a devastating dozen billion-dollar catastrophes. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Wednesday that it has recalculated the number of weather disasters passing the billion dollar mark, with two new ones, pushing 2011's total to 12...