[4] In June 2008, he left WFOR and instead focused more time on America's Emergency Network, a private company he formed with business partner Max Mayfield, former director of the National Hurricane Center.
[6] Norcross started in television as an engineer at WFSU-TV in Tallahassee, Florida while in college, moving to WXIA-TV (then WQXI-TV) in Atlanta as a maintenance engineer/technical director after graduation in 1972.
He was the only news person able to get to the television station and went on the air with the help of two overnight engineers, providing the city the only TV coverage of the storm.
In 1981, he returned to Atlanta as Executive Producer for Documentaries and Magazines at WTBS, handling many of Ted Turner's pet projects.
As Andrew passed just south of Miami in the early morning hours of Monday, August 24, 1992, Norcross's 23-hour marathon broadcast became many viewers' (and radio listeners') only link to the outside world.
In appreciation for his work before, during and after Hurricane Andrew, Norcross received the 1993 David Brinkley Award for Excellence in Communication.
[11] Norcross was named Honorary Chairman of the Board of the South Florida Hurricane Warning museum project in Deerfield Beach.
In addition he has recently served on the board of directors of the Wolfsonian Museum on Miami Beach, operated by Florida International University.
In addition, a section called "How I'd Do It Better" is made up of Norcross's comments on and ideas for improving many aspects of the government's system for dealing with the hurricane threat.