Feds: New Orleans levees are storm-ready
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Federal emergency officials claim New Orlean's levee system is ready for another major hurricane.
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A report shows, in block-by-block detail, that a big storm would likely flood large swaths of the city.
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More than 15 months after Hurricane Katrina, Mayor Ray Nagin is ready to open a city office to direct New Orleans' recovery, with a leading regional planner and disaster recovery expert in charge.
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Waiting in line is part of life in post-storm New Orleans, especially when it comes to health care.
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IT managers in Louisiana and Texas say they learned lessons from major hurricanes in 2005 and believe they are now prepared for s similar disaster.
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Since Hurricane Katrina, the New Orleans city government has taken steps such as consolidating remote operations into its main data center and adding Web services and GIS technology to help it track reconstruction activities.
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HAMILTON, Bermuda  - Bermuda's government urged   residents to make urgent preparations for the arrival of   powerful winds and high seas on Sunday, after Tropical Storm   Florence strengthened and became a hurricane as it approached   the British Atlantic territory.
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NEW ORLEANS - More than 1.2 million people in metropolitan New Orleans were warned to get out Tuesday as 140-mph Hurricane Ivan churned toward the Gulf Coast, threatening to submerge this below-sea-level city in what could be the most disastrous storm to hit in nearly 40 years.    Residents streamed inland in bumper-to-bumper traffic in an agonizingly slow exodus amid dire warnings that Ivan could overwhelm New Orleans with up to 20 feet of filthy, chemical-polluted water...
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The government in Haiti is making plans to evacuate one of its largest cities, following floods caused by the tropical storm Jeanne.
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The city&#039;s levee system was routinely underfunded and therefore inadequate to protect against hurricanes, according to an independent report released Monday.
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One hundred twenty-two levees from Maryland to California are at risk of failing, according to a list released Thursday by the Army Corps of Engineers.
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The Government in Haiti is considering plans to evacuate parts of the city of Gonaives, which was devastated by a tropical storm last week.
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BERMUDA HAMILTON -- Residents of Bermuda installed storm shutters and hauled their boats onto beaches in preparation for Tropical Storm Florence, which intensified yesterday and was expected to become a hurricane as it approached the island. Florence was moving over the open Atlantic and was expected to reach the tiny British territory tomorrow, according to the National Hurricane Center in ...
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NEW ORLEANS - Fleeing to safety was not an option for some people as 140-mph Hurricane Ivan churned toward the Gulf Coast, threatening to submerge the below-sea-level city in what could be the most disastrous storm to hit in nearly 40 years.    Latonya Hill, who waited out the dangerous storm sitting on her stoop Tuesday, said the official pleas for residents to pack up and leave meant little to her...
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WASHINGTON &#151; The federal response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita showed that medical personnel deployed to emergencies need more hands-on training rather than relying on computers to prepare, federal investigators say.
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NEW ORLEANS - People along the US Gulf Coast are waiting to see if Hurricane Ivan will strike with the intensity predicted, when it finally makes landfall on Thursday morning.
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Tropical Storm Florence headed for  Bermuda as a large mass of gusty rain on Friday and seemed  ready to strengthen into a hurricane before hitting the British  territory, U.S. forecasters said.