Fla. Cleanup Is Biggest in FEMA's History
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FORT PIERCE, Fla. - 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, and stifling heat and darkness amid widespread power outages...
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PUNTA GORDA, Fla. - As the remnants of Hurricane Charley disintegrated off the New England coast on Sunday, Florida residents began the massive task of cleaning up from a storm that state officials estimated caused damages as high as $11 billion for insured homes alone...
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It's been almost four years since the night Hurricane Isabel washed away North Carolina Highway 12, along with homes, sand dunes, power lines and utility pipes on the Outer Banks. Pounding waves carried away a section of Hatteras Island, leaving behind a 2,000-foot-wide, 15-foot-deep gash in the...
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NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- Hurricane damage in Florida and the Carolinas will cost Progress Energy more than $300 million to clean up and will lower earnings for the year by about 18 percent, the utility said Friday.
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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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Displaced central Florida residents spent the night in shelters after a line of storms packing at least one tornado killed 19 people. A massive cleanup effort awaits them. Gov. Charlie Crist planned to tour the area Saturday with FEMA's director, assessing what one official called "complete devastation" of homes, businesses and churches.
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VERO BEACH, Fla. - People lined up for more than a half-mile for food and water, while others searched in vain for generators in the sweltering heat Monday as Florida residents began cleaning up all over again, demoralized by the fourth hurricane in six weeks to batter the state...
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FORT PIERCE, Fla. - Thousands of Floridians beginning the process of recovering from the ravages of Hurricane Frances were hampered by long lines for basic necessities, congested highways and sticky heat Wednesday as President Bush signed a major disaster-relief bill...
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By MARIA ARMENTAL  Journal Staff Writer  A record 1,800 people haul away about 16,000 pounds of garbage from Rhode Island's waterfront during yesterday's International Coastal Cleanup events.
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FORT PIERCE, Fla. Sept. 8, 2004 - Hurricane-ravaged Florida struggled to replenish its fuel supply and keep emergency distribution centers stocked with basic supplies Wednesday as millions of hot and weary
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As Floridians pick up the pieces from the second devastating hurricane in less than a month, many are discovering the full effects of a decade of maneuvering
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More than 76,000 meals and snacks have been served to hurricane-ravaged counties in Florida, with thousands more available from federal, local and private agencies, the Federal Emergency Management Agency said Monday.
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Work crews along Florida&#39;s Atlantic Coast are bracing for Hurricane Jeanne as they continue to clean up from this season&#39;s string of killer storms.
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Floridians mopped, shoveled sand and lined up for water and ice on Monday as the remnants of Hurricane Jeanne left the storm-beaten state and whipped through Georgia after taking six lives.
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FEMA and other US agencies seem to have improved their emergency response since the 2005 Katrina fiasco.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla.  - Floridians mopped, shoveled  sand and lined up for water and ice on Monday as the remnants  of Hurricane Jeanne left the storm-beaten state and whipped  through Georgia after taking six lives.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.  - Hurricane Frances did more damage to the Kennedy Space Center than any other storm in history, tearing an estimated 1,000 exterior panels from a giant building where space vehicles are assembled, officials said Monday.