Plodding hurricane recovery problems await Jindal
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- Plodding hurricane recovery problems await Jindal
- Wall downed by hurricane in minutes taking months to be rebuilt
- California Wildfires: Reporter Watches House Burn; The Line of Fire:…
Plodding hurricane recovery problems await Jindal
KTBS – Oct 23, 2007
He said he will also keep the contractor in charge of the program if it meets performance standards. Jindal also will continue at least in the short term to use Louisiana National Guard troops and State Police to help patrol in New Orleans. The response to Hurricane Katrina and the slow pace of recovery afterward sunk Blanco’s political fortunes and she decided not to seek re-election. Red tape continues to bog down recovery efforts rebuilding money is running dry and New Orleans remains hamstrung by work force shortages crime and housing needs. Jindal said Monday that the recovery folds into larger decisions on how to restructure health care and education systems that were failing before Katrina and Rita. To speed up administration of rebuilding dollars already available Jindal said he wants to shrink the bureaucracy that oversees federal rebuilding aid. (The Associated Press contributed to this report) Rated: Not Rated.
Wall downed by hurricane in minutes taking months to be rebuilt
Jamaica Observer – Oct 23, 2007
(Photo: Lionel Rookwood)IT could take several more weeks before the collapsed section of the perimeter wall at the Spanish Town Hospital is repaired the institution’s chief executive officer David Dobson said yesterday. A part of the wall bordering the troubled community of De la Vega City on Port Henderson Road in the old capital was forced to the ground by Hurricane Dean’s strong winds on August 19. The resulting gap in the wall which measures about 80 feet leaves the institution’s grounds open to all and sundry and vulnerable to intrusion from warring factions in the town. Yesterday Dobson told the Observer that the process to effect the necessary repairs was on in earnest but stopped short of blaming bureaucracy for the two-month wait. “We recognise it as something that needs urgent attention but as you know it’s not always that easy to have those matters addressed. There is a process including developing the necessary bill of quantities and the tenders [which] started quite some time now” Dobson said.
California Wildfires: Reporter Watches House Burn; The Line of Fire:…
CNN International – Oct 23, 2007
And then it looks like a tornado went through this neighborhood because it’s not as if it’s just a couple of houses. It’s house after house street after street. And unlike a tornado or a hurricane when you — when you look at somebody’s home at least they have something that they can come back to. In a tornado they can pick up their valuables or personal belongings but here everything is just burned completely to the ground. This is not the only home. Again this is a widespread event. We’re in Rancho Bernardo which is on the very northern fringes of the city of San Diego and this is one of many streets affected like this.