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Cabot puts $5M price tag on its hurricane damage (Boston Business Journal)
A Cabot Corp. plant in Louisiana sustained extensive damage from Hurricane Rita, and the company says the storm could have a $5 million impact on its bottom line.

Hurricane Stan Kills At Least 68 (CBS News)
Hurricane Stan slammed into Mexico's Gulf coast Tuesday, forcing authorities to close one of the nation's busiest ports and spawning storm-related damage in Nicaragua and El Salvador, which has suffered the worst loss of life, mostly from landslides.

Hurricane damages La-Z-Boy's profits (Detroit Free Press)
La-Z-Boy Inc. , the largest U.S. home-furniture maker, said second-quarter sales and profit will miss the company's forecast because of supply shortages of foam and damage to a factory caused by Hurricane Katrina.

Miss. Couple Sues Insurers Over Hurricane Losses (Insurance and Technology)
A Mississippi couple sued insurers on Tuesday, saying the companies refused to pay for the damage to their home caused by Hurricane Katrina.

Deltec's Round Homes Survive Hurricane Katrina With No Structural Damage (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Deltec Homes, manufacturers of a unique round house design that seems to be hurricane proof, reports that all of their homes in the Gulf States hit by hurricane Katrina survived and suffered no structural damage.

Clinton to visit Gulf Coast to see hurricane damage (New Orleans Times-Picayune)
LITTLE ROCK (AP) Former President Bill Clinton is to travel to areas of the Gulf Coast this week to see damage caused by Hurricane Katrina.

Rita Causes Minimal Damage in Morehouse (Bastrop Daily Enterprise)
Local law enforcement agencies report minimal damage as the outer bands of Hurricane Rite moved through Morehouse Parish on Saturday. Bastrop Police assistant chief Jesse Walker reported minimal damage in the city.

Poultry prices jump from hurricane damage (The Capital Times)
Hurricane damage to major poultry producing areas of Mississippi resulted in higher chicken prices in Wisconsin in September, and rising fuel prices will make their way into food bills through the rest of the year, the Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation said in its latest Market Basket survey.

Aquila's Fixed Price Option popular with customers after hurricane damage (Lincoln Journal Star)
Fueled by fears that natural gas prices will soar even higher, more than 30,000 Lincoln residential customers a 20 percent increase over last year signed up for Aquila s Fixed Price Option gas purchase plan.