HURRICANE KATRINA
The News Review:
- HURRICANE KATRINA
- Family Finds Port After a Storm
- City counting on FEMA reimbursement for ‘hurricane’ damage
- Christmas fire engulfs shelter in Ike-ravaged town
- Hurricanes and economy hurt Texas churches
- Pioneer spirit in New rleans’ Lower 9th Ward
HURRICANE KATRINA
Dallas Morning News TX
More than 20000 people in Louisiana still rely on federal aid for shelter after hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Three-plus years after Hurricane Katrina – and still waiting on rebuilding aid through the state to finish repairing his Gentilly Terrace house – Mr. Donahue’s just glad to have a warm place to sleep. About 1800 travel trailers and mobile homes remain in New rleans. fficials and advocates say many of those still in trailers are in Mr. Donahue’s predicament: trying to rebuild but struggling to cobble together the financing to finish.
Family Finds Port After a Storm
Washington Post United States
For her family it was a respite from a long upheaval. Douglas her husband Albert and their eight children are evacuees of. For more than three years they have bounced from motels to hotels rental townhouses to single-family homes in Lake Charles La. Houston and Baton Rouge — then in Manassas Park and.
City counting on FEMA reimbursement for ‘hurricane’ damage
Urbana Daily Citizen H
The city intends to have the debris in both piles chipped although FEMA funds are to go only toward the Sept. Boettcher said debris removal accounts for the bulk of what Hurricane Ike cost the city when it tore through hio but there are other costs the city sustained. She said FEMA representatives will return to the city next month to discuss possible 75 percent reimbursement of costs for personnel overtime the use of the generator at the municipal building and the deductible for replacing two structures. The gazebo by the Soldiers Mound at ak Dale Cemetery and a shelterhouse at Melvin Miller Park were destroyed during the storm. The city intends to replace both structures. Boettcher said insurance should cover the replacements but that the city will need to pay the deductible.
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Christmas fire engulfs shelter in Ike-ravaged town
Houston Chronicle United States
html SAN LEN Texas — Firefighters say a dried-out Christmas tree may have started a blaze that destroyed a women’s shelter in a small fishing town still reeling from Hurricane Ike. The fire Thursday gutted the two-story mega Alpha House in San Leon where Ike wiped out many homes and piers after coming ashore in nearby Galveston. No one was hurt in the blaze but 14 shelter residents lost everything they own. San Leon assistant fire chief Scott Lyons says a Christmas tree may have started the fire at the shelter which offered drug and alcohol rehabilitation programs for women. Dozens of San Leon residents gave up their holiday celebrations to provide food clothing and temporary shelter to the residents the Galveston County Daily News reported.
Hurricanes and economy hurt Texas churches
Houston Chronicle United States
“The combined effects of Katrina Rita and then Ike have really stretched church resources to the max” Gurley said. “In all of these crises churches literally emptied their pockets. Several Evangelical Lutheran churches in Galveston and Houston were struggling even before Hurricane Ike which blasted ashore near Galveston on Sept. 13 flattening buildings and killing at least 37 people in Texas. The Park Place Lutheran Church of Houston closed in November 2007 and a for sale sign was planted in the front lawn. Financial problems contributed to the decision to close said Bishop Mike Rinehart of the Texas-Gulf Coast Synod Evangelical Lutheran Church of America. The property was recently sold.
Pioneer spirit in New rleans’ Lower 9th Ward
Los Angeles Times CA
He created a memorial on his vacant lot to remember them. AN AMERICAN MMENT: Road to the inauguration Pioneer spirit in New rleans’ Lower 9th Ward.