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...says he used old weather records to reconstruct the path of a major hurricane that hit New Orleans almost 200 years before Hurricane Katrina. Cary Mock of the University of South Carolina say because the War of 1812 was raging when the storm hit, the hurricane's...
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The Post Chronicle
http://www.postchronicle.com/news/science/article_212347518.shtml?rssfeed
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Natural disasters, such as hurricanes, may cause severe psychological impairment in children and adolescents, which may persist in youth who have survived hurricanes, their effects, or both. To better understand the needs of youth in the community after
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American Psychological Association
http://content.apa.org/journals/pro/41/1/10
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...the hurricane season more bearable based on her experience of being without electricity and water for 13 days following Hurricane Katrina. The 2009 Atlantic hurricane season predictions are in, read on to find out the newly updated long-range predictions released...
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Associated Content
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2564435/the_hurricane_seasons_around_the_world.html
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Should RichRod apologize for comparing UM football to Hurricane Katrina?
Itâs really kind of ironic that the New Orleans Saints overcame the hurricane a few years back. And weâve had a few hurricanes of our own. We had a big hurricane in August, and it
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Sports By Brooks
http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/richrod-ums-adversity-is-like-hurricane-katrina-27288
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has made it no secret that its decisions regarding Dallas' ambitious plans to remake the Trinity River corridor with bridges, lakes and a toll road have been haunted by the ghosts of the victims of Hurricane Katrina.
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Dallas Morning News
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/112409dnmetlevees.3cd70d4.html
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Leave it to sleazy trial lawyers to find a way to tie “climate change”/”global warming” BS with massive lawsuits and Hurricane Katrina. It was bad enough when the liberal media, Louis Farrakhan, and every loon under the soon blamed the natural
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Debbie Schlussel
http://www.debbieschlussel.com/12604/sleazy-lawyers-hurricane-katrina-was-manmade-lets-sue-oil-companies/
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Hurricane Katrina offered a unique opportunity for University of Houston drug researchers to examine how disaster impacted the health of black substance abusers.
The results of a three-year, $1 million study released Thursday revealed post-disaster
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Houston Chronicle
http://feeds.chron.com/~r/houstonchronicle/topheadlines/~3/gj7liCAh9s0/6730111.html
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Attorney Jenneane Jansen, who co-authored the MSBA petition to the court, noted that recent disasters caused large-scale disruptions to the legal communities in the affected areas.
"During Hurricane Katrina, whole law offices were destroyed," she said.
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MinnPost.com
http://www.minnpost.com/stories/2009/11/12/13381/minnesotas_legal_system_updates_its_disaster_preparedness
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NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) -- Before a cheering crowd at a town hall meeting in New Orleans, President Obama fired back at critics who accuse him of accomplishing little in his nine months in office, saying "I'm just getting started."
President
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KIRO
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/10/15/obama.new.orleans/index.html?eref=ib_us
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In August 2005 the Democratic Party had no clear leader, no identifiable
platform, no winning national coalition and little political courage.
Editor's Note: Today, as Obama makes his first presidential visit to New Orleans, we repost Melissa
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The Nation
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheNationEdPicks/~3/UCV0b8qN18c/harris-lacewell_perry
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Obama faced a fair amount of criticism for not visiting the region on the fourth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina in August, but he addressed concerns by announcing plans to assess post-Katrina recovery with a Gulf Coast tour before the end of the year.
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Facing South
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Source: McClatchy
WASHINGTON -- When President Barack Obama visits New Orleans next week to survey how its recovery is going four years after Hurricane Katrina, he'll have a lot to tout about the help his administration's given -- and plenty to worry
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Democratic Underground
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4100049
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COVINGTON, La. -- A Folsom-area man who killed a 35-year-old man with a hammer a few
weeks before Hurricane Katrina was sentenced Monday to life in prison
for second-degree murder, the Times-Picayune reports.
Edward "Eddie" McCray: 42-year-old
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Everything Alabama
http://blog.al.com/live/2009/09/killing_man_with_hammer_before.html
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ScienceDaily (Sep. 24, 2009) New research published in the September issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons offers important insights into the long-term impact of a major disaster on routine surgical services in a hospital. In the
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Science Daily
http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/x9kS8k24-D8/090925092658.htm
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Tanya Jones had just completed the first year in her dream job as a school principal. Then Hurricane Katrina knocked her down.
The hurricane destroyed her family's home. She relocated to Dallas with no possessions except a few items of clothing.
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Dallas Morning News
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/092709dnmetkatrina.3c8c404.html
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NEW ORLEANS — A federal jury on Thursday rejected a New Orleans family’s claims that the government-issued trailer they lived in after Hurricane Katrina exposed them to dangerous fumes, with one juror saying the plaintiffs’ attorneys never had the
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Goshen News
http://www.goshennews.com/business/local_story_268101345.html
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On the fourth anniversary of the devastation in New Orleans, former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff says the lessons of the
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The Daily Beast
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-08-28/how-katrina-saved-lives/
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...the rights to make a movie about an ex-Marine who protected and helped rescue 244 people from a building flooded by Hurricane Katrina.John Lee Hancock will write and direct the film about John Keller, in a project based on a script by Adetoro Makinde of Back...
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Sony Insider
http://www.sonyinsider.com/2009/05/22/sony-will-smith-working-on-hurricane-katrina-movie/
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...be stronger. I never thought I would live through one of the countries worst natural disasters before graduating college." Hurricane Katrina did pave the way for some changes to the evacuation plans, saving more lives and making it easier to activate evacuation...
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The Battalion
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http://www.thebatt.com/news/2009/05/11/News/Hurricane.Katrina.Makes.Lasting.Impact-3739695.shtml
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As bags were being unpacked for the new semester, Hurricane Katrina hit leaving these students with an uncertain academic future.
Southern Miss graduates Beverly Ferguson and Apryl Jackson were among the hundreds who were supposed to start class in
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Biloxi Sun Herald
http://www.sunherald.com/education/story/1334768.html
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...she talked with the Cathedral City Sun: QUESTION: How did you get involved with these volunteering projects? Answer: When Hurricane Katrina hit, the local rotary group in Palm Desert called the company (Best Signs Inc., her family business) to get some vehicle...
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The Desert Sun
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http://www.mydesert.com/article/20090313/NEWS01/903120416/1132/RSS20
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Three and a half years after Hurricane Katrina, the National Guard is pulling the last of its troops out of New Orleans this weekend, leaving behind a city still desperate and dangerous. Residents long distrustful of the city's police force are worried
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Dohiyi Mir
http://www.dohiyimir.org/2009/02/cutting-and-running.html
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...Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry, Barack Obama and others were all over President Bush after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans. Of course, President Bush was a Republican and Louisiana is a Democratic state, so naturally President Bush didn't care about...
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A Soldier's Perspective
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ASoldiersPerspective/~3/530878984/
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...In New Orleans, truancy is a continuing problem for schools struggling to rebuild after Hurricane Katrina. John Merrow continues his series on troubled public schools. JUDY WOODRUFF: Next, the latest in our series of reports on fixing troubled school systems...
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Newshour With Jim Lehrer
http://feeds.pbs.org/~r/pbs/newshour-headlines/~3/531836710/nolaschools_02-03.html
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When the rebuilding of Trinity Episcopal Church in Pass Christian is complete, the facility will be in the same carpenter gothic style with white siding and dark green trim that residents have loved for many years. It will be different, however, in
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Biloxi Sun Herald
http://www.sunherald.com/local/story/1107519.html
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...break, five Towson students traveled to New Orleans for a Hillel sponsored trip to help rebuild communities affected by Hurricane Katrina. "We worked hard every day, but there is still work that needs to be done," Towson freshman Ben Verovsky said. "I grew…...
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The Towerlight
http://www.thetowerlight.com/news/2009/01/29/News/Hillel.Helps.In.Katrina.Relief-3602390.shtml
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...herself in a sudden free fall. Reichardt says that the for the film occurred to her and co-writer Jon Raymond after Hurricane Katrina. "There was a sentiment in our country after Katrina that, if people hadn't left themselves so vulnerable, if they didn't...
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The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/23/AR2009012300851.html?wprss=rss_artsandliving/movies
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...Travel on Celebrity Cruises. Home Instead Senior Care announces the winner of the CAREGiver Cruise Giveaway Contest. When Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005, the Jenkinses were with Jean's mother in her family home in Long Beach, just a few houses from their own...
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Emediawire.com
http://www.prweb.com/releases/caregiving/home-instead/prweb1902484.htm
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...nothing says, "Welcome to the Oval Office" quite like raising the specter of 9-11 and the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina.Sheesh. Makes you wonder whether Sprint really got Obama's message of choosing "hope over fear." But Sprint does have a point. Large-scale...
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KansasCity.com
http://sprintconnection.kansascity.com/?q=node/933
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...A Whole Lotta Water explores the emotional, psychological, human rights, race, and gender issues affecting hurricane Katrina survivors. Former Heisman Trophy winner Danny Wuerffel didn't let Hurricane Katrina stop him from serving the people of New...
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Associated Content
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1376634/africanamericans_and_hurricane_katrina.html
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...them in 1964 for trying to register black Mississippians to vote. On the other hand, the former threesome was shot during Hurricane Katrina by a group of men described as “white vigilantes.” Unlike Goodman, Schwerner and Cheney, however, Herrington (pictured...
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Racialicious
http://www.racialicious.com/2009/01/05/was-there-a-race-war-after-hurricane-katrina/
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ALBANY Fourteen University at Albany students and four faculty members spent the New Year's holiday scraping away lead-based paint and repainting with lead-free products the interiors of New Orleans homes damaged by flooding from Hurricane Katrina.
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Albany Times-Union
http://www.timesunion.com/ASPStories/Story.asp?StoryID=756223&Category=REGION&LinkFrom=RSS
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...decades. But parts of this region continue to experience an economic boom mainly driven by recovery efforts related to Hurricane Katrina. Just last week, the University of New Orleans published a report estimating that 11,700 jobs were added across metropolitan...
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Time Magazine
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/time/business/~3/jLbv2jUsoMc/0,8599,1869398,00.html
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...As 2008 closed, the population of New Orleans reached 73.7 percent of pre-Hurricane Katrina levels based on the number of households actively receiving mail. The Greater New Orleans Community Data Center said Wednesday that although growth slowed significantly...
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WWLTV
http://www.wwltv.com/topstories/stories/wwl123108tppopulation.2782b3fd.html
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...only think about flooding. The building is refurbished and New Orleans is being reborn, a little more than three years after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the city and sent some 30,000 refugees into the Superdome, seeking shelter. The images of those disastrous...
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Salt Lake Tribune
http://feeds.sltrib.com/~r/mngi/rss/CustomRssServlet/297/203307/~3/499917262/ci_11347475
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...your property do what you gotta do and leave them [the bodies] on the side of the road." More than three years later, Hurricane Katrina still stands as a symbol of our elected officials' brutal indifference to the lives of poor African-Americans. No evacuation...
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The Nation
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheNationEdPicks/~3/RAo9gGWu0XI/editors2
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...Kimberly Rivers Roberts and Scott Roberts created a video diary of their struggles as Hurricane Katrina rolled through their neighbourhood. Raw home movies make a powerful foundation for a documentary about the New Orleans flood The Hot Docs Wednesday...
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Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/article/526411
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...elements of man and nature themselves. It wasn’t that long ago that Jones was hunkered down in the Superdome while Hurricane Katrina unleashed its Category 5 furry on Louisiana. Listening to the storm battering New Orleans from the unsure safety of the enclosed...
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WOAI
http://www.woai.com/content/sports/sam/story.aspx?content_id=1e1230c4-32de-43dd-9fe5-a1624edb83eb&rss=323
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...for your boy. This is just the beginning of the end of America as we knew and lived it. Bush looked like he did after Hurricane Katrina, like a deer in the headlights… Or reading My Pet Goat. Same look, same utter confusion as to what to do. I found myself...
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Think Progress
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/10/stock-drop-bush/
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...among voters for this fall's presidential election. These videos show John McCain contradicting himself on the Iraq War, Hurricane Katrina, the economy and tax cuts. These videos may call into question the validity of the presidential nominee's "straight talk"...
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Associated Content
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1024155/john_mccain_videos_show_disturbing.html
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...to this day. As people in the 9th Ward, under water as the result of poorly constructed levees, waited for help after Hurricane Katrina hit, the U.S. government turned down aid including offers of foreign governments to send medical teams, search-and-rescue...
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Home News Tribune
http://www.mycentraljersey.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080907/OPINION02/809070301/-1/rss10
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...winds play no favorites. Just ask the people of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, who only 3 years ago were victimized by Hurricane Katrina, the worst natural disaster ever to befall the continental United States. The wounds of Katrina had scarcely begun to...
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Philly.com
http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=168316&44=27899689&32=3796&7=195227&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fsports%2F20080905_Bernard_Fernandez__Nittany_Line__Brothers_from_Louisiana_keep_eye_on_weather.html
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...Sr. doesnt see any way he could move back to New Orleans. I would be lying if I said New Orleans was recovering from Hurricane Katrina, he said. Last year, my wife and I went back down to check on our family and see how things were, and it was terrible still. Down...
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South Bend Tribune
http://www.southbendtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080903/News04/809030119/-1/XML
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...exactly what they had to do. Even if Gustav had been as bad [as] or worse than Katrina, we were 10 times more prepared.” Hurricane Katrina is the benchmark for all domestic response across the country, Army Col. Lee Smithson, the state’s joint task force...
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U.S. Department of Defense
http://www.defenselink.mil//news/newsarticle.aspx?id=51016
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...planners helped Gulf residents weather Hurricane Gustav a lot better than they did Hurricane Katrina. Governors and mayors this time around cried out for residents to evacuate -- New Orleans' Ray Nagin called Gustav the "mother of all storms" -- and a half...
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Orlando Sentinel
http://feeds.orlandosentinel.com/~r/orlandosentinel/news/opinion/~3/382122198/orl-ed031new08sep03,0,4362197.story
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...breaking news, daily headlines and more. PHILADELPHIA -- For the survivors of Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Gustav brought back vivid and unpleasant memories. Some Katrina victims moved to the local area to start over and they watched Gustav on TV as they worried...
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NBC10.com
http://www.nbc10.com/news/17366318/detail.html?rss=phi&psp=news
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...at Louis Armstrong said they had no timetable for reopening the airport, which was closed for nearly two weeks after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in 2005. Service at some other airports where flights were canceled on Monday could resume as early...
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The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/02/business/economy/02air.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
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...Denver to ride out the storm. Al Hanson was born and raised in New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward, which was devastated by Hurricane Katrina, and said the last few days have been eerily familiar. "The same calmness that you felt in the area before Katrina was pretty...
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The Denver Channel
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/17361435/detail.html?rss=den&psp=news
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Monday, 01 September 2008
It is feared the hurricane could test the strength of rebuilt levees in New Orleans which failed during Hurricane Katrina. Water levels continue to rise as rain lashes the city.
Most New Orleans residents have fled with only 10
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The London Paper
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...commander of the 403rd Wg, during an interview after Katrina. "Despite the fact many of our people lost everything to Hurricane Katrina, they all returned to work quickly and pitched in to support their neighbors on the Gulf Coast and throughout the Atlantic...
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Air Force Link
http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123113131
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