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Beau Rivage Damage Worse Than Expected (pPlayer.com)
Filed under: Casinos & Card Rooms , Business Weeks after Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the coasts of Louisiana and Mississippi, damage is still being assessed on the casinos in that area. Originally, it appeared that the Beau Rivage Hotel and Casino in Biloxi, Mississippi sustained only minor damage, but now the chairman of MGM Mirage Inc. states that it could be the biggest loss of

Export Grain Elevators in Texas Gulf Region Escape Major Damage from Hurricane Rita (Grainnet.com)
Hurricane Rita made landfall Sept. 24 near the Texas/Louisiana border northeast of Galveston, TX and west of New Orleans, LA packing sustained winds of nearly 120 mph and leaving some costal communities completely devastated.

Elder Bush Wraps Up Tour of Gulf Damage (AP via Yahoo! News)
Former President George H.W. Bush wrapped up a tour of the hurricane-devastated Gulf Coast on Sunday with a helicopter trip over parts of Texas and Louisiana, saying the damage reminded him of last year's Asian tsunami.

Teche Federal Bank Provides Update after Hurricane Rita (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
Patrick Little, President and CEO of Teche Holding Company , parent company for Teche Federal Bank , today announced that the Bank's branches suffered only minor damage due to Hurricane Rita and all 19 locations were fully operational on Monday, September 26, 2005, two days after the storm's landfall.

Massive damage nixes early signs of hope for Beau Rivage casino (USA Today)
When Hurricane Katrina finished pounding Biloxi, it appeared the Beau Rivage hotel-casino had escaped serious damage. But the chairman of MGM Mirage, the company that owns the $800 million property, predicts it will be the single-biggest loss of any of the casinos lining Mississippi's coast.

Elder Bush Wraps Up Tour of Gulf Damage (ABC News)
Elder Bush Wraps Up Tour of Hurricane-Ravaged Gulf Coast, Says Damage Reminds Him of Tsunami

MEMS USA - Houston Subsidiaries Survive Hurricane Rita with No Damage and Report Record Backlog of Orders (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
Gulfgate and Bott, MEMS USA's wholly owned manufacturing subsidiaries located in Houston, survived hurricane Rita without any damage to their facilities. Chuck Christensen, President of Bott Equipment, stated, "We are pleased that the damage to the Houston area was minimized when hurricane Rita diminished in strength prior to coming ashore.

Hurricane damage no excuse to drill for oil in Arctic, Dion tells U.S. official (Canadian Press via Yahoo! News)
WASHINGTON (CP) - Hurricane damage to U.S. oil refineries is no reason to start drilling in an Alaskan wildlife refuge, Environment Minister Stephane Dion said Tuesday.

Electrical workers say damage from hurricanes indescribable (The Steubenville Herald-Star)
Local electrical workers who traveled to the hurricane-ravaged South to aid in power restoration said the damage there cannot be described without seeing it firsthand.