He and a visitor lamented the hurricane tax that pot dealers had implemented shortly before Wilma's arrival. "Yeah, dude, prices went up," Nickell said. "I normally get half an ounce for $150, $175.

Hurricane Wilma has grown rapidly grew from a tropical storm with 70 mph winds to a Category Five hurricane, ... Christopher Landsay at the National Hurricane Center in Miami discusses Wilma.

NAPLES, Fla. (AP) - Hurricane Wilma plowed into southwest Florida early Monday with howling 125 mph winds and dashed across the state to the Miami-Fort Lauderdale area, blowing out windows in ...

MIAMI — Officials in southeast Florida struggled Tuesday to restore power, clear roads and rush water and ice to residents unprepared for the damage inflicted by Hurricane Wilma. A day after the ...

According to the National Hurricane Center's historical report, the "Great Miami" Hurricane formed as a tropical wave located 1,000 miles east of the Lesser Antilles on Sept. 11, 1926.

“It was unprecedented,” said National Hurricane Center senior storm specialist Richard Pasch, who watched Wilma’s evolution from the center’s bunker in Miami. “If you could designate a ...

Hurricane Wilma made landfall in Florida as a Category 3 ... By the time the eye crossed the peninsula and reached the Miami area, Wilma had been downgraded to a Category 2 hurricane but ...

Before Hurricane Wilma hit Miami 10 years ago, the tall buildings in Brickell had never had to contend with anything like the more than 100 mph winds the storm brought. And while the buildings ...

The evacuation orders are the largest since Hurricane Wilma in 2005, and came as Miami-Dade was the regional holdout in not instructing at least some residents to flee in advance of the storm.

Shortly after Vic Ruggiero and his partner, Tony Ransola, purchased their Art Deco home in Miami Beach in 2004, Hurricane Wilma tore through the area. During the storm, they noticed a roof come ...

The storm, the last to bear the name Wilma, was unmatched in pace of escalation, pressure, and an eye that grew from a beady 2.5 miles, the smallest on record, to a gaping 75-mile wide maw that ...