FEMA Learned From Hurricane Andrew in 1992
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Betty Babitzke and her husband were so frustrated after Hurricane Andrew slammed into Florida in 1992 that they pulled out a map and started looking for a safer part of the state in which to spend their retirement. They settled on Punta Gorda.
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By Nicholas Spangler, The Miami Herald  Sep. 19--FEMA CITY -- In 2004, after the first of the hurricanes ripped through, the federal government built this place on wasteland out by the Charlotte County jail.
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Hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, wildfires: a year after Katrina, a tour of the American hazardscape shows that we haven't learned much
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By Tampone, Kevin  SYRACUSE - Among the numerous lessons of Hurricane Katrina was at least one for information-technology professionals.
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In the neighborhood President Bush visited right after Hurricane Katrina, the U.S. government gave $84.5 million to more than 10,000 households. But Census figures show fewer than 8,000 homes existed there at the time.
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Sept. 10, 2004 - One has to go all the way back to 1964 to find a year when Florida had three major hurricanes. Lyndon B. Johnson was in the White House.
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By Christine Rappleye, The Beaumont Enterprise, Texas  Jun. 27--GROVES -- Melody Miller's days of living in a FEMA trailer in front of her Hurricane Rita-damaged home are numbered.
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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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By Vicki L. Friedman, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  Sep. 12--SUFFOLK -- Andrew Cospelich packed a few bags a year ago for a trip to Alabama, never dreaming it would be the last time he would set foot in his house.   But home was Gulfport, Miss., devastated by Hurricane Katrina.
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Some of the thousands of trailers purchased by the Federal Emergency Management Agency in 2005 after hurricanes tore through the Gulf Coast may finally be put to use to help victims of last week's tornadoes, officials said Tuesday.
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President Bush marked Hurricane Katrina's deadly strike two years ago Wednesday by assuring New Orleans and Mississippi they are getting better. Many residents, still aching over the killer storm and angry their communities are only limping toward what they used to be, begged to differ.
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HILTON HEAD, SC  Hurricane Charley demonstrated last weekend why some of the nation&#39;s most vulnerable folk - the ill, the disabled, and the frail elderly - should think twice before taking up residence in the most dangerous parts of ...
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FLORIDA was yesterday counting the cost of being hit by four hurricanes in six weeks, prompting recovery plans on a scale never before seen in the United States.
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As owner of a beachfront home in Hernando County, Cheryl Labbe has gotten used to rising rates for her homeowners&#39; insurance. During Florida&#39;s four-hurricane barrage, letters
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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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Sarah Mason's home, which she bought with tips from cleaning other houses, started leaking during Hurricane Frances. Then came Hurricane Jeanne. Mason lost about everything, and she had no insurance. The four hurricanes that slammed Florida this year forced 252,000 residents to ask for federal help because their homes were damaged or destroyed.
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The city announced 10 winners of a $100,000 open design competition "to generate solutions for post-disaster provisional housing." The premise: a Category 3 hurricane, with 38,000 families left homeless.