Storm-Damaged Homes Find New Life: Workshop Dismantles, Recycles Old Materials
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By Karen Nelson, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Dec. 11--OCEAN SPRINGS -- The surge-damaged home of Robert Wiygul and Julia Weaver will be dismantled in January and many of its parts distributed to Coast people who need building materials.   It could start a trend.
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Habitat for Humanity International has built homes all over the world. But now it has some work to do in its own backyard: A twister cut a devastating path through the organization's hometown last week.
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By The Bradenton Herald, Fla.  Jun. 20--Sarasota Manatee Roofing and Sheet Metal Contractors Association is planning a hurricane preparedness seminar noon to 1 p.m. Saturday at the Fruitville Branch of the Sarasota Public Library at 100 Coburn Road.
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PENSACOLA, Fla. - A packet of U.S. savings bonds, washed out of a house destroyed during Hurricane Ivan more than two years ago, was found and returned to its owner.
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By Ryan Teague Beckwith, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Feb. 8--For years, Raleigh's leftovers have been dumped on the northern end of the Dorothea Dix hospital campus.   But the city has turned that trash into treasure.
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Before Lisa Taleghani can get organized, she has to get rid of the junk. Three generations of it is crammed into the attic, basement, and back porch of her late grandmother's home in Revere.
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ATLANTA, Nov. 8 -- Hurricane Katrina left more than gutted houses and empty streets along the Gulf Coast.
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Twenty-five hundred tons of concrete, 350 tons of steel and nine tons of aluminum window frames will be left after a seven-story downtown building is taken down. But instead of ending in the scrap heap, the concrete will be ground up and used to fill the site, steel will be melted to create rebar and the aluminum will be reused in cans and other products.
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Their homes are in ruins, many have only the clothes they&#39;re wearing, yet those who took a direct hit from hurricane Ivan returned to their neighbourhoods yesterday determined to rebuild.
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Attempts are made to salvage mechandise after the entire facade of a clothing store in downtown Pensacola, Fla., took a hit from Hurricane Ivan on Thursday morning.
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By AP Wire Service  Technicians want to assess hail storm damage and determine necessary repairs.   CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.
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By Frank Munger, The Knoxville News-Sentinel, Tenn.  Jun. 4--OAK RIDGE -- The cleanup apparently is working.
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Eighteen months after Hurricane Katrina, Stella Chambers' modest red-brick house had finally been repaired, and she was waiting for one last utility hookup to move back in. But the 85-year-old woman never made it. A tornado tore through her neighborhood in the city's Gentilly neighborhood before daybreak Tuesday, flattening her house, ripping apart the front-yard FEMA trailer in which she was living, and killing her.
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Five-gallon buckets of paint and primer are stacked high near the entrance of The Home Depot, occupying a spot once packed with the pressure washers and bleach that were needed to get rid of the mold, mildew and muck left by Hurricane Katrina.
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By C.R. Roberts, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  Dec. 16--There's a tree on the roof of your garage. All that food in the freezer might have to be thrown out. Your phone and cable TV are still out. You might need to hire a contractor to repair storm damage.
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Carcasses of unused oil equipment litter the Gulf Coast. Now they're being repurposed to harness the power of the wind. By John Geoghegan from Wired magazine.
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PENSACOLA, FLA. -- As hurricane Ivan&#39;s remnants soaked the South yesterday and left a trail of destruction from the Gulf Coast to the Carolinas, Floridians once again are coping, cleaning up and coming together