natural disasters

Rumors about a cross that did not burn in Southern California wildfires in 2017 is true — and similar accounts were documented in 2009 and 2014.

It’s not true that the Red Cross can steal items off church doorsteps under an Obama-era executive order, and claims that items were stolen are unproven.

Jennifer Lawerence linked Mother Nature’s wrath to inactivity on climate change, but she didn’t blame President Trump for natural disasters.

Hotels aren’t required to accept evacuees with pets during natural disasters, but shelters operated by state and local government are under the PETS Act of 2006.

An emergency order signed by the U.S. Virgin Islands governor authorized the seizure of guns and ammo after Hurricane Irma — but those seizures never began.

Floyd Mayweather Donates Millions to Houston Flooding Relief-Fiction! Summary of eRumor: Floyd Mayweather donated a $200 million to Houston flooding relief efforts after Hurricane Harvey struck in August 2017. The…

False claims that Joel Osteen sailed through Houston on a luxury yacht handing out copies of his book came from a website that publishes Christian satire.

A simulation of what flooding at Laguardia Airport could look like was misidentified in August 2017 as flooding at William P. Hobby Airport in Houston.

A false report of a Yellowstone lava geyser following earthquakes in Montana and Wyoming in July 2017 were intended to be satire.