Chamber ExxonMobil help companies damaged by Hurricane Rita.
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- Chamber ExxonMobil help companies damaged by Hurricane Rita.
- How could President Bush forget New rleans?
- As Aid Lags Volunteers Shoulder Rebuilding on Gulf Coast
Chamber ExxonMobil help companies damaged by Hurricane Rita.
Free with registration – Beaumont Enterprise – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jan 28, 2007
28–Nancy Worthington president of Classic Forms & Products Inc. a company that supplies credit unions and others with business forms suffered a roof cave-in at her old.
How could President Bush forget New rleans?
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – Jan 28, 2007
” Too bad the people of New rleans St. Bernard Parish Pass Christian Biloxi and the rest of the coast will never have the luxury of forgetting. They can’t forget that days after Hurricane Katrina made its tragic landfall ush stood in New rleans’ Jackson Square while most of the city still lay beneath brackish floodwaters and said that nature’s trials “remind us that we’re tied together in this life in this nation – and that the despair of any touches us all. ” Must have been a very light touch. That night Bush promised that “we will do what it takes we will stay as long as it takes to help citizens rebuild their communities. ” He vowed that “this great city will rise again. ” Then as usual he acted as if saying something were enough to make it true… Yes Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have just bought a house in New rleans and say they will make the city their new home. But they’re likely to have better security than their neighbors. New rleans was doomed not just by Hurricane Katrina but by the failure of levees and flood walls that should have provided ample protection. The Army Corps of Engineers has worked day and night to patch the flood control system and if Katrina hit again tomorrow most of the city should stay dry. But if a similar hurricane hit from a different angle – or heaven forbid a stronger hurricane hit from any angle – then what’s left of New rleans would likely be destroyed. The man who inspired Bush’s immortal “Brownie” remark Michael Brown will go down in history as the Federal Emergency Management Agency director who botched the federal response to Katrina. But he intends to take others in the White House down with him.
As Aid Lags Volunteers Shoulder Rebuilding on Gulf Coast
Washington Post – Jan 28, 2007
worked on other details. “This home was built by the hands of God” Margaret Ladner 75 said from the couch of her new living room last week. In this small rural community as in much of the hurricane-ravaged Mississippi Gulf Coast this kind of motley charity effort accounts for the vast bulk of what halting progress has been made in the immense task of rebuilding. While the national debate over the recovery has focused on the billions expected in federal aid and insurance those sources have so far provided little for places such as Pearlington and charity efforts have constituted more than 80 percent of the home rebuilding completed so far local and charity officials said. Fewer than one in five families here are back in their homes but nearly all of them have relied to some extent on charity groups. The waves of volunteers typically come down for a week or two work during the day and at night sleep on cots and bunks set up in places such as the old school library and huts on the community’s football field. “Without the volunteers and the donations we’d still be in the mud” said Rocky Pullman a tugboat captain who represents the Pearlington area on the Hancock County Commission… People say there just hadn’t been a flood in recent memory and of those who did have coverage most had too little. “If it wasn’t for the good American citizens coming here we’d be in a world of hurt” said Chuck Benvenutti Hancock County representative on the Governor’s Commission on Recovery Rebuilding Renewal. The fact that now 17 months after Hurricane Katrina only a small fraction of the home rebuilding has been completed and that most of it has been done by charity groups is viewed here as both wonderful and disappointing — wonderful that so many strangers have arrived to help but disappointing that the federal aid and insurance payouts have proved for now so unavailable. The charitable groups and residents also say they sometimes worry that as the rest of the country forgets about their plight the flow of volunteers that they have relied upon could shrink. Several expressed outrage that there was no mention of the hurricane recovery in President Bush’s State of the Union address on Tuesday. “We still look like a bomb hit us and then the president in his national address doesn’t even mention us?” said Larry Randall a retired boat captain and a coordinator of relief efforts at the Pearlington Recovery Center.