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Displaced by Hurricane Katrina, teachers make new start in Florida (Sun-Sentinel)
As Patrice Willard rushed out of New Orleans ahead of Hurricane Katrina, she remembered to scoop up her teaching certificate along with other important papers.

9 South Florida Residents Charged With FEMA Fraud (Local10.com)
Hurricane Frances did a lot of damage in parts of Florida, but officials say that some people used it as a way to rip off FEMA.

FPL Increases Number of Personnel Supporting Hurricane Rita Restoration (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
A second wave of Florida Power & Light Company restoration workers arrived in Lumberton, Texas this week to aid Gulf Coast utilities in restoring electric service to customers hard hit by Hurricane Rita.

Mobile Mini using Florida location to serve hurricane-ravaged areas (bizjournals.com via Yahoo! Finance)
Mobile Mini Inc. is developing a new branch in Pensacola, its sixth branch in the state of Florida.

Tropical Storm Tammy plows into Florida (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Tropical Storm Tammy, the 19th storm of an unusually active Atlantic hurricane season, came ashore in northern Florida on Wednesday and brought heavy rain and high waves to parts of the U.S. Southeast coast.

Florida's oyster beds hit hard (Miami Herald)
Mother Nature continues her assault on the Gulf of Mexico oyster industry. Red tide, hurricanes and the subsequent fuel cost increases threaten the availability and cost of the popular bivalves in Florida, a trend that's beginning to surface for some dealers and restaurateurs. Some warn of potential oyster shortages in the next few weeks as the impact of Hurricane Rita becomes clear and oyster

Hurricane Evacuees Boost Hotels' Profits (Washington Post)
At this time of year, Jay Poole's two low-budget hotels along the Florida Panhandle are usually about half full. But with hundreds of thousands of Hurricane Katrina evacuees needing shelter in recent weeks and possibly for months to come, his hotels have been nearly sold out.