Perry wants FEMA funds to buy disaster housing
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- Perry wants FEMA funds to buy disaster housing
- FROM OUR READERS Consider this aid for economic hurricane
- Hurricane-Hit Galveston Celebrates Dickens Anyway
- Brad Pitt Steve Bing steadfast in New Orleans support
- Ex-votos connects museum to tornado victims
- Town releases six-month report on tornado recovery
Perry wants FEMA funds to buy disaster housing
Houston Chronicle United States
html AUSTIN — Gov. Rick Perry wants $300 million in federal disaster relief funds to buy mobile homes and other temporary housing for Texans displaced by Hurricane Ike. Perry and state lawmakers have criticized federal efforts to provide temporary housing as too slow. 26 letter to the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency Perry said the onset of cold weather could have “disastrous consequences” for families who have been camping out or sleeping in cars on their property. Nearly 1800 Texans are waiting for FEMA mobile homes to be moved onto their properties.
FROM OUR READERS Consider this aid for economic hurricane
Detroit Free Press United States
com | Detroit Free Press. It is with great empathy that I can now understand the frustration and anger of the survivors of Hurricane Katrina.
Hurricane-Hit Galveston Celebrates Dickens Anyway
NPR
Many of Galveston’s downtown Strand businesses still haven’t reopened but they’re trying to. just in time for this weekend’s annual Dickens on the Strand celebration.
Brad Pitt Steve Bing steadfast in New Orleans support
Los Angeles Times CA
When it happens it makes all the difference. Take Brad Pitt’s yearlong effort to assist residents of New Orleans’ ravaged Lower 9th Ward return to their own homes. Twelve months ago amid of blaze of international publicity Pitt and producer-financier Steve Bing launched a private effort (kicking in $5 million each) to build safe affordable housing for people who had lost all to Hurricane Katrina’s savagery. More than a few stars would have basked in the attention and moved on to the next project or fashionable cause. Pitt and Bing have stuck with the 9th Ward throughout the effort. And this week they were on hand to watch families moving into the bright new homes that guarantee them a future in the city they loved.
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Ex-votos connects museum to tornado victims
Windsor Beacon CO
The exhibition will include earthquakes tornadoes hurricanes tsunamis volcanoes blizzards fires avalanches plus more. “We put together a touch cart where people can see the tiles and hear stories from the kids who experienced the tornado and how they moved past this disaster” Logan said. The exhibition will also include a chance for people to create their own volcanoes witness the deadly power of a hurricane be able to stand inside a tornado and have a chance to monitor earthquakes. But before Brunner knew about this amazing opportunity to send shingles to the Denver museum Carrie Barrett the Museum Curator for the Town of Windsor received the phone call first. “It was really exciting” Barrett said. “When they contacted me and asked if we had any physical objects that related to the tornado that the museum could use I immediately thought of the shingles. ” And with good reason too.
Town releases six-month report on tornado recovery
Windsor Beacon CO
> The Re-Create Chimney Park project has developed into a group of 15-20 professionals offering pro-bono work to redo the park. The town has also provided a backfill in its 2009 budget to make sure the park will be functional in 2009 though it is expected grants insurance and private contributions will make up the majority of the funds. > The construction and tornado debris are being mulched at the leaf dump and the dump will reopen for the public at the end of the year. > The Windsor-Severance Fire museum will be relocated to 6th and Ash streets within Boardwalk Park. No decision has yet been made about the slab from the previous site. > Nearly 450 volunteers planted in excess of 200 trees as part of the plant small Grow Tall event in Main Park and at Lakeview Cemetery in October. > To date 4071 tornado-related building permits have been issued.