Hurricane Katrina ice going down drain
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After nearly two years, thousands of truck miles and $12.5 million in storage costs, a cold relic of the flawed Hurricane Katrina relief effort is going down the drain.
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ORLANDO, Fla. -- Residents in Central Florida continue to face widespread flooding and long lines for everyday items such as gas, ice and water Tuesday, according to Local 6 News.
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Floridians were again settling into the discomforts of a post-hurricane reality: lines for bags of ice or a hot meal, damaged homes that will take months to repair
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The remnants of Hurricane Frances washed out water lines or sanitation systems in several mountain towns, leaving tens of thousands of people without drinking water early Thursday. Flooding throughout the Appalachian Mountains contributed to two deaths in Ohio.
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Hurricanes Katrina and Rita inundated Louisiana marshes with salt water, and a subsequent drought means that the waters have stayed too salty for gators to comfortably reproduce.
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By Mark Fagan, Journal-World, Lawrence, Kan.  Feb. 22--Sweeping out the garage is a drag. Avoiding potholes is aggravating. Parking alongside a pile of long-since-cleared snow -- now a heap of soiled, black ice -- at the grocery store is far from appetizing.
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NEW ORLEANS, La. - Faced with a nightmare scenario of floodwaters that could drown this below-sea-level city, thousands of evacuees jammed highways Tuesday in an agonizingly slow escape from 140-mph Hurricane Ivan as it bore down on four Gulf Coast states...
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Cleanup crews worked Monday to clear toppled trees from roadways and restore electricity to neighborhoods that were still without power after a winter storm spread sheets of ice up to 2 inches thick across Georgia.
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A state program to help homeowners with hurricane damage will run out of money by year's end unless Congress steps in to fill the gap, an official said Tuesday.
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TAMPA, Fla. - Raymond Rodriguez was changing a tire when an 18-inch chunk of ice plummeted from the sky with a piercing whistle, then a metallic crunch. The ice chunk crushed the roof of a nearby Ford Mustang on Sunday morning. No one was hurt.
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Heavy sediment deposited in the Mississippi River delta in the last ice age has caused New Orleans to sink and will continue to drag down coastal Louisiana bit by bit for hundreds of years, according to a new study by NASA and Louisiana State University scientists.
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By Bryan Brasher brasher@commercialappealcom  POCAHONTAS, Tenn. -  As Bill Dance pulled his aluminum boat along Tennessee Highway 57 earlier this month, he found his progress impeded by a small city truck pouring liquid de-icer onto the asphalt in front of him.
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NEW ORLEANS, La.  - The Big Easy became The Big  Queasy on Tuesday as the usually laid-back party town worried  about deadly Hurricane Ivan rumbling north through the Gulf of  Mexico toward the U.S. coast.
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By Penix, Matthew  Oil and gas infrastructure was left mangled when Hurricane Katrina rambled through the Gulf of Mexico in August 2005. Vast amounts of work needed to be done by engineering firms already short on employees.
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By Bruce R. Posten, Reading Eagle, Pa.  Mar. 5--IN WINTER'S WANING days, ice retreats from the banks of French Creek; a cannon lies locked in layers of ice next to a stack of pig iron bars; and a water wheel remains motionless.
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CORTES, Cuba -- After killing 68 people and decimating tens of thousands of properties across the Caribbean, Hurricane Ivan plowed through the Gulf of Mexico yesterday, setting off an exodus from Cancun to New Orleans, where locals girded for what could be the worst storm in decades.
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By Robin Fitzgerald, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Sep. 25--GULFPORT -- The final day of the season at Gulf Islands Water Park went slip sliding away all too soon. Thunderstorms on Sunday forced the park to close early on the last day of its first full season.