Florida Hurricane

Shortly after Hurricane Nicole made landfall early Thursday along the east coast of Florida, it downgraded to a tropical storm but it was still battering a ...

The resort's security office hung up Wednesday when an Associated Press reporter asked whether the club was being evacuated and there was no sign of evacuation by Wednesday afternoon. For storm-weary Floridians, it is only the third November hurricane to hit their shores since record-keeping began in 1853. Nicole remains a sprawling tropical storm, covering nearly the entire weather-weary state of Florida early Thursday while also reaching into Georgia, the Carolinas and Alabama. "While we were there the whole backyard just started collapsing into the ocean. In Daytona Beach Shores, surging ocean water threatened the foundations of at least a dozen high-rise condos and houses. Airlines in the United States cancelled 1,220 flights early Thursday.