Gulf Coast Struggles to Emerge from Debris
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NAVARRE, Fla.  - Rescuers with dogs fanned out and  National Guard troops poured in as residents and emergency  workers began a massive cleanup on the U.S. Gulf Coast on  Friday after Hurricane Ivan killed up to 33 people.
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This Louisiana town may have dried out and cleaned up since getting flattened by Hurricane Rita, but its recovery is moving in slow motion: Nearly everyone still lives in temporary housing.
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People in the Gulf Coast city of Pensacola, Fla., emerged to find backyards flooded and light posts bent at right angles. Still, many said it could have been worse.
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First Hurricane Charley rammed Florida's Gulf Coast a month ago. Then Frances plowed into the Atlantic shore. Now Ivan is threatening to wallop the state again &#151; and Floridians have had enough.
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By Larry Holder, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 17--KILN -- The pieces were falling apart for Gulfport on Friday night.   Justin Ray received a technical foul after the clock expired in the first half.
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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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Two years after Hurricane Katrina devastated coastal areas of Louisiana and Mississippi, residents say they still need help. Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, was nearly destroyed by Katrina. "The mental and spiritual needs that are down here -- just still overwhelming," said a local pastor.
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roads into debris-filled rivers and smashed piers and marinas in Alabama and northwestern Florida. About 3 million people were without power and thousands huddled in shelters.
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NEW ORLEANS - Stragglers streamed toward higher ground Wednesday on highways turned into one-way evacuation routes and surf started eroding beaches as Hurricane Ivan roared toward the Gulf Coast with 135 mph wind and its outer bands darkened the sky.    Ivan could cause significant damage no matter where it strikes, as hurricane-force wind extended up to 105 miles out from the center...
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You might be surprised how far you have to drive from New Orleans, LA to get to the Gulf of Mexico.  Following     the west bank of the Mississippi River along Hwy 23, you go through the separate and well-separated towns of     Belle Chasse, Pointe a la Hache, Port Sulphur, Empire, Boothville, and finally over 60 miles from New Orleans     the tiny oilfield supply and marina town of Venice.    At Empire the highway goes over a pretty tall bridge and on the other side of the canal, beyond the levee     system, Katrina's storm surge came through with a vengeance.  The roads have been cleared but everywhere along     them are the twisted skeletons of steel buildings with vegetation hanging out of shattered second-story     windows.  A refrigerator sits atop the flooded husk of a house.  A perfect square of fenceless pickets     surrounds a perfectly bare concrete slab.  The occasional forlorn FEMA trailer can be spotted parked on one of     many slabs in a field of such slabs that was once a neighborhood.  The carcass of a cow is wedged improbably     in the canopy of a tree twenty feet up.    What is striking is not that the landscape looks like this; most of the coastline of Louisiana and Mississippi     experienced such damage.  What is striking is that it looked like this when I visited last week, in August     2006, almost an entire year after the storm came through.
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MOBILE, Ala. - Hurricane Ivan and its 135-mph winds churned toward the Gulf Coast with frightening intensity Wednesday, spawning monster waves that toppled beach houses and spinning off tornadoes that killed at least two people...
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By Pam Firmin, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Jun. 20--BILOXI -- Architects from throughout the state trekked around stacked steel and through debris and knee-high weeds Tuesday.
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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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Apprehensive coastal residents from Florida's Panhandle to Louisiana prepared to flee from massive Hurricane Ivan, which has entered the Gulf of Mexico and is on a collision course with the Gulf Coast.
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By Leigh Coleman, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Jun. 27--LANDON ROAD -- The thousands of wrecked vehicles that filled farmland off Landon Road in Gulfport stood as a constant reminder of Katrina's devastation.
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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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ATLANTA, Nov. 8 -- Hurricane Katrina left more than gutted houses and empty streets along the Gulf Coast.