Natural disasters like Super Typhoon Fung-Wong and Hurricane Melissa devastate entire regions, often for extended periods. Residents sometimes face complete ruin. Given the hardship that natural and ...

Celeste Gray used to travel without a plan, which allowed her “plenty of room for spontaneity.” But when she found herself stranded in Spain on Sept. 12, 2001, she discovered the importance of ...

When traveling, it’s crucial to be well-prepared and know what to do in case a natural disaster occurs during your vacation. As thousands of vacationing families are stranded in Rhodes, Greece on ...

Hundred-year floods. Wildfires. Hurricane season. Hurricane after hurricane after hurricane. It's been a summer of extreme and unpredictable weather, hasn't it? So how do you keep Mother Nature from ...

Hairstylist Melody Barnes is no stranger to talking. But she never would have thought that she would be part of the conversation that the whole world is talking about. Melody had a trip to Maui ...

As if the pandemic hasn’t done enough to disrupt travel this year, the weather only made things worse. 2021 has been a particularly bad year for natural disasters in the… As if the pandemic hasn’t ...

Sometimes it's the unplanned moments of your vacation that you remember most. Chicago Tribune columnist Eric Zorn talks about his own vacation... Wow Us With Your Vacation Disaster Sometimes it's the ...