Repairs Don't Allay Fears of Next Storm
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NEW ORLEANS -- Where the canal wall burst and doomed the Lower Ninth Ward during Hurricane Katrina, there now stands an imposing concrete monolith.
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Further severe weather could bring fresh problems for areas already battered by heavy rain and gales, the Environment Agency warns.
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Hurricanes pose more of a threat than they did 30 years ago because of population growth.
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An unusual number of storms have made landfall in Florida in the last month, and the hurricane season is only halfway through. But experts say there is no easy answer for the run of bad luck other than the fact that the law of averages may be catching up with the state after several relatively calm hurricane seasons.
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Hurricane forecasting experts said the number of named Atlantic storms this year will be lower than initially predicted, following a slow start of the season in which only one hurricane formed so far.
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The rain last Sunday was heavy, but not torrential, and it is totally unacceptable for the Water Service, or whatever they call it now (I think they've omitted the word 'Service' for starters), to say the flooding cannot be resolved until the new sewage system is finished.
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About one in three people living in Southern coastal areas said they would ignore hurricane evacuation orders if a storm threatened their community, up from about one in four last year, according to a new poll.
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Next year's Atlantic hurricane season  will again be more active than usual but is unlikely to be a  repeat of this year's disaster, a noted storm forecaster said  on Friday.
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Despite aggressive efforts to repair the New Orleans levee system following the destruction of Hurricane Katrina, it isn't clear yet whether it could withstand a hurricane with heavy storm surge this year, the head of the Army Corps of Engineers conceded Saturday.
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n the wreckage left by the devastating one-two punch of Hurricanes Charley and Frances, engineers, researchers and others are finding some hope that this combination of disasters may do
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Hurricane experts this time are stressing that predictions about the storm's possible movements are rough approximations.
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By PETER GUINTA  When wild ocean waves are daily undermining the house foundation and washing away patio furniture, it may be difficult for that homeowner to remain patient.
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By Pam Firmin, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Jun. 8--PASS CHRISTIAN -- If anybody assumes a contractor's house will be the first one repaired -- or rebuilt, they're likely to be wrong.
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By Esker, Fritz  Hurricane season starts Friday but phone and Internet providers have been fortifying services for months in case of another major storm.
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Just because Katrina was the perfect storm, a catastrophic combo of the wrong hurricane in the wrong place at the wrong time, doesn't mean that history can't repeat itself, leaving another city obliterated by another tempest. It can.
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With the cleanup from Hurricane Charley  beginning, fears that Florida could be battered by another  deadly blast from Mother Nature receded Monday as two  burgeoning storms spun harmlessly far off the U.S. coast.
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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