The Alabama Department of Transportation, or ALDOT, held what is called a contraflow exercise in Mobile April 22 to prepare for evacuations if needed during a hurricane.ALDOT held a hurricane ...

the Alabama Emergency Management Agency and local agencies will conduct a hurricane preparation lane-reversal simulation today on I-65 from Mobile to Montgomery, according to a recent release.

What major hurricanes have made direct landfall in Alabama? When Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana in 2005, Katrina caused the Mobile Bay to spill into Mobile, tropical force winds, and two fatalities.

Making landfall on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans with enormous force. The city had faced deadly storms previously, including Hurricane Betsy in 1965, which caused extensive ...

But Master Sergeant Mike Maroney of the U.S. Air Force and LaShay Brown, the little girl he saved during Hurricane Katrina, are quite a different story. When pararescuer (or PJ) Maroney picked up ...