US home woes 'near-perfect storm'
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The US housing and mortgage downturn is now so acute that a fall in home prices is likely, a key lender warns.
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The United States, which has emerged  from this year's hurricane season largely unscathed, should  brace itself for a potentially devastating hurricane season in  2007, a leading windstorm forecaster warned.
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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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The Small Business Administration steps up aid to businesses affected by recent weather-related disasters. Oct. 4, 2004 --As home and business owners throughout Florida and the Southwestern US pull things
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By Karen Nelson, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Dec. 11--OCEAN SPRINGS -- The surge-damaged home of Robert Wiygul and Julia Weaver will be dismantled in January and many of its parts distributed to Coast people who need building materials.   It could start a trend.
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An agreement to release $1.1 billion in federal aid to help tens of thousands of New Orleans-area homeowners elevate their homes against flooding appears near. But there's a big catch.
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HIS could be the big one. This could be the Hurricane Ivan of sports, the perfect storm that levels the landscape of a formerly major league.
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By The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Mar. 3--For thousands of you, a ballot is about to come in the mail that may end up saving your home from a disastrous flood. Yes, it is election time once again, but just for some property owners and a single, very special cause.
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It wasn't Hurricane Frances, which recently menaced his Boca Raton playpen, that Andy Roddick was worried about. Nor Hurricane Ivan, which appears to be Florida-bound. It was a localized rogue storm named Hurricane Joachim that the defending champion was concerned with last night, and it blew him out of the US Open.
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&quot;Looks like some of you out there could be going cabin crazy over the next few days,&quot; said the man on a US weather station yesterday.
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Heavy rains in the US in the wake of Hurricane Ivan caused floods from Alabama in the south to Pennsylvania in the northeast and left about 1 million homes and businesses without power.
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The serious slump in the housing market and home building may be near a bottom, according to a leading U.S. home builder.
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There are always trade-offs to every place people choose to live. If you live in New York, it&#39;s too expensive. If you live in Montana, it&#39;s too remote. If you live in Florida, you&#39;re going to be slammed with hurricanes all the time.
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The commercial real estate marketplace weathers the storm.
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Tropical Storm Ernesto packed little   punch after coming ashore in Florida as a rainstorm instead of   a dreaded hurricane, but forecasters on Wednesday said it could   still pose a threat to the U.S. mainland.
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Charley, Frances and Ivan. Three major hurricanes. Two assaults on Florida already and possibly a third by next week. Get used to it.
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The nation's storm forecasters are badly divided over claims that an aging satellite leaves America vulnerable