Government emergency homes for hurricane victims unprotected…
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- Government emergency homes for hurricane victims unprotected…
- Mudslide victims exhumed one year after hurricane
- Fla. Hurricane Panel to Suggest Changes.
Government emergency homes for hurricane victims unprotected…
International Herald Tribune – Nov 14, 2006
The failure to protect the homes from the sun and rain while they were in storage was outlined in a report by the Homeland Security Department’s inspector general. FEMA bought the homes as emergency housing for victims of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. But many sat unused for months at an Army depot in Texarkana Texas because of restrictions on where such homes could be erected FEMA said. A June inventory had 1790 homes at the site.
Mudslide victims exhumed one year after hurricane
Reuters AlertNet – Nov 14, 2006
0: background end –>. 0: inline article box end –>. Entire families were buried alive last ct. 5 when weeks of nonstop rain caused a deadly slick of mud rocks and trees to crash down the side of a volcano in one of Latin America’s biggest natural disasters of recent years. Rescuers abandoned the site as a mass grave after days of digging leaving the bodies trapped under hundreds of tons of mud. The anthropologists expect to find between 250 and 300 bodies during the exhumation which could take more than four months.
Fla. Hurricane Panel to Suggest Changes.
Free with registration – America's Intelligence Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Nov 14, 2006
(14-NV-06) The America’s Intelligence Wire. Hurricane Panel to Suggest Changes… –>CPYRIGHT 2006 Financial Times Ltd. (From AP nline) Byline: DAVID RYSE Homeowners in hurricane-weary Florida should be able to get bare-bones property insurance coverage for only part of their home’s value or even a policy that doesn’t cover hurricane damage according to draft recommendations from a state task force. Floridians have seen hurricane premiums go through the roof in the past few years after eight hurricanes affected the state. CPYRIGHT 2006 Financial Times Ltd.