Hurricane Katrina
| New York Press Blogs - ON SCREEN (New York Press) http://www.nypress.com/blogs-1-1-1-2.html The homicidal cohabitates with the hilarious in East 10th Street: Self Portrait with Empty House, a one-man show describing the last denizens of the one remaining SRO (Single Room Occupancy) building in downtown Manhattan—a place “no one ever leaves willingly.” Acorns of Hope begins tour in St. Landry Parish (Opelousas Daily World) Opelousas' Jim Bowie Oak has been chosen as the mascot tree for this year's Acorns of Hope tour that is fighting to restore Louisiana's endangered coastal environment one oak tree at a time. Corps seeks upgrades at Westwego canal (New Orleans Times-Picayune) When Tropical Storm Frances flooded the Louisiana Newpack Shrimp Co. in 1998 thanks, in part, to an incomplete floodwall along the adjacent Company Canal, owners of the Westwego business took matters into their own hands, renting a Bobcat and ordering... Cuba and Haiti hard hit in hurricane season (Reuters via Yahoo!Xtra News) MIAMI (Reuters) - The 2008 Atlantic hurricane season tested the New Orleans levees rebuilt after Katrina, hammered the Texas oilpatch and killed 800 in Haiti, but may be best remembered as one of the worst in Cuba's history. Lt. General Russel Honore: Disaster preparedness should be top concern (New Orleans Times-Picayune) The no-nonsense general who directed federal troops in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina returned to the city Tuesday to call for residents and leaders to adopt a permanent culture of disaster preparedness, from installing generators on the second floor instead... Cuba, Haiti And Texas Hard Hit In Hurricane Season (Planet Ark) MIAMI - The 2008 Atlantic hurricane season tested the New Orleans levees rebuilt after Katrina, hammered the Texas oil patch and killed 800 in Haiti, but may be best remembered as one of the worst in Cuba's history. Recent hurricane seasons slowest in last 30 years (Poughkeepsie Journal) The past two years have seen a "remarkable" downturn in hurricane activity, contradicting predictions of more storms, researchers at Florida State University say. RPT-Cuba, Haiti and Texas hard hit in hurricane season (AlertNet) Source: Reuters (Repeats for wider distribution) By Jim Loney MIAMI, Nov 14 (Reuters) - The 2008 Atlantic hurricane season tested the New Orleans levees rebuilt after Katrina, hammered the Texas oilpatch and ... In Tomorrow's Paper (EdmontonSun.com) The nitty-gritty on love, dating, relationships, sex and singledom ... read the Sex Files FEMA pays to clean waterways of debris from Hurricane Katrina but not Gustav (New Orleans Times-Picayune) In the more than three years since Hurricane Katrina, a scattered mess of storm-tossed washers, dryers and refrigerators is still lurking in the waters of Grand Isle's Caminada Pass. |
