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February 15, 2008
Trailers given to US
Trailers given to US disaster victims unsafe: CDC (TODAYonline)
A Federal Emergency Management Agency trailer sits in "FEMA City" in Punta Gorda, Florida, in 2006. Tens of thousands of trailers that the US government provided people left homeless after Hurricane Katrina contain unsafe levels of cancer-causing formaldehyde, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Thursday.
2007 Hurricane Season Starts Early, Ends Late (Science Daily)
The Atlantic Hurricane Season began early in 2007, and by mid-December it was still going. The season officially begins June 1 and ends Nov. 30. That means that for the most part, storms have formed and fizzled between those dates, or they used to. NASA satellites were watching and providing data from the beginning when Andrea kicked off the season on May 9 when she formed 150 miles northeast of ...


