South Carolina Electric and Gas reports it’s back-up communication systems to simulate no land line or cell phone service and no two-way radio service is ready for a category 3 hurricane.

NOAA forecasters say a near-normal Atlantic hurricane season is most likely this year. However, as with any season, the need to prepare for the possibility of a storm striking near you is essential.

Hurricane forecasting team from Colorado State University predict a close to average hurricane season in 2009.

University of New Orleans chancellor to visit The Citadel, to present “Leadership in a Time of Crisis: Lessons Learned from Hurricane Katrina”.

National Guard officers from 27 states and federal responders say their first-ever conference has helped fine tune emergency plans for the upcoming hurricane season.

An animal control officer stumbled across the body of a Hurricane Ike victim on an island near where the storm slammed ashore last month, bringing the national death toll to 72.

Dramatic video from south Cameron High school in Creole, Louisiana taken immediately before the arrival of Hurricane Ike.

The large area of distrubed weather we have been tracking from the eastern Caribbean to its current location just east of the Bahamas has become Tropical Storm Kyle.

Sunday marked 19 years since hurricane Hugo slammed into the lowcountry. September 21st, 1989, the storm made landfall as a category 4 hurricane.

Last Week when the threat of Hurricane Ike was approaching the Texas Coast There was a lot of talk about the potential for higher gas prices. It didn’t take long for these fears to become a reality, as we watched the prices here in south Carolina jump from 3-61 a gallon to 450 even 523 at some stations in just a matter of hours.

Spokesman Mark Plowden said that Attorney General Henry McMaster wants to know when stations and suppliers decided to change prices, and by how much.

For many, this is the first trip home after Ike even if there is very little left of most of the homes here.

Houston’s mayor is unhappy with FEMA, saying supplies aren’t coming in fast enough in the days since Hurricane Ike blew through.

President Bush urges Ike evacuees to heed warnings of local officials and wait before returning.

President Bush will be in Texas today to tour some of the areas hardest hit by hurricane Ike.  He’ll get a briefing on relief efforts as well as the ongoing search and rescue operations.