Some Texans Still Cleaning Up After Rita
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By PAUL J. WEBER WEST ORANGE, Texas - Sam Henry swept dead pigs off Highway 87 two days after Hurricane Rita tossed them there. Then his job turned really unpleasant.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Rachmat has a nasty gash on his leg from cleanup duty. Marni, an old-timer, has a laceration on her forehead. Their fellow workers are also nursing cuts and scrapes.
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By Julie Fishman-Lapin, The Stamford Advocate, Conn.  Feb. 2--Growing up in Florida, Rodney Adkins often spent free time dismantling his family's television or radio, or even his mother's vacuum cleaner.
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More than 16 months after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita forced an unprecedented exodus from the Louisiana Gulf Coast, tens of thousands of homeowners have decided not to rebuild or have yet to make up their minds, an Associated Press analysis found.
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Nineteen months after Hurricane Katrina sent evacuees from New Orleans streaming into Houston, more than 5,000 heads of households among them are still unemployed despite the city's booming economy, officials say.
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By Juan Munoz, The Brownsville Herald, Texas  Jun. 22--In hopes of a better drainage system in and around the Southmost area, Cameron County Precinct 1 Commissioner, Sofia C. Benavides has set up a second meeting with residents to discuss the issue.
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Today, as Florida homeowners continue with the cleanup from their second big hurricane in less than a month, they are finding that they are bearing a greater share of the cost themselves than they would have in the past.
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By Scott Streater, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Feb.
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Texans weary of high electric bills and environmentalists who fought TXU Corp.'s plans for more coal-fired power plants offered only muted criticism Monday of the proposed takeover of the state's largest electric utility.
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By Katherine Cromer Brock, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Sep.
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As his family and neighbors focused on rebuilding homes and lives battered by Hurricane Rita, few gave much thought to Larry Euglon's long absence.
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Police and fire agencies in Gulf Coast towns still struggle after hurricane Katrina. But officers persevere - with devotion and donated equipment.
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BONITA SPRINGS, Fla. - When residents smelled a foul odor coming from a nearby home, they thought it was a meth lab and called firefighters. But firefighters entered the house only to find it full of garbage, authorities said.
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BAN NAMKHEM, Thailand  - As a clean up operation  finally gets into gear in this devastated Thai fishing village,  some of the survivors complain that the authorities gave  priority to foreign tourists rather than them.
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Many residents resolve to stay in the state - except when hurricanes pass through.
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VERO BEACH, Fla. - People lined up more than a half-mile for food and water, while others searched in vain for generators in the sweltering heat Monday as Florida residents began cleaning up all over again, demoralized by the fourth hurricane in six weeks to batter the state...
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FLORIDIANS today began to clean up after their third hurricane in five weeks, while Alabamans looked to rebuild their condos and beach homes along the coast.