Coastal Towns Flattened By Rita Remain Desolated
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By Bill Hanna, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Sep. 24--HOLLY BEACH, La. -- When Jackie Monceaux walks the abandoned streets of this once-thriving blue-collar resort town, she doesn't see the empty concrete slabs and dozens of for-sale signs that dot the barren beachfront.
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Every highway out of this city below sea level ground to a near halt for most of Tuesday as residents heeded evacuation orders. They left the neighborhood of the
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An Associated Press Television News crew flew over town after town on the coast Wednesday, and saw villages covered in mud and sea water.
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REAL, Philippines : Hopes of finding more survivors in the ruins of a storm-battered building in the northeast Philippines faded as rescuers halted their search at dusk after only discovering three mangled bodies.
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ATLANTA, Nov. 8 -- Hurricane Katrina left more than gutted houses and empty streets along the Gulf Coast.
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By Carl Mario Nudi, The Bradenton Herald, Fla.  Sep. 23--ANNA MARIA ISLAND -- The barrier islands have been spared another week of the unbearable effects of red tide.
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Five years after catastrophic floods and mudslides killed thousands along Venezuela's Caribbean coast, survivors in this town still see the signs of destruction &#151; shattered concrete walls and tall weeds growing atop streets covered in dried mud.
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Five years after catastrophic floods and mudslides killed thousands along Venezuela's Caribbean coast, survivors in this town still see the signs of destruction - shattered concrete walls and tall weeds growing atop streets covered in dried mud.
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By The Beaumont Enterprise, Texas  Jun. 24--The Cameron Prairie National Wildlife Refuge visitor's center and offices will close Monday to start repairs from Hurricane Rita.
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By Andrew Gant, Northwest Florida Daily News, Fort Walton Beach  Jun. 11--Abandoned boats left over from storms on the Emerald Coast are finally starting to move again -- into the junkyards.   Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Lt.
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By Brad Heath  BURAS, La. -- The defense of Louisiana's hurricane-battered Gulf Coast begins in the muck -- or what's left of it.    The land is vanishing so quickly here from marshes and barrier islands that what went away in the past 50 years alone could cover all of Rhode Island.
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PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad -- Hurricane Ivan tore down trees, blew off roofs, knocked out power, and forced hundreds of people to evacuate coastal areas as it pounded the tiny islands of the southeastern Caribbean yesterday.
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Manhattan - The hurricane that struck the island Sept. 7 left buildings at St. George&#39;s University with missing roofs and water damage.
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Residents of poor coastal communities of Nicaragua picked through the wreckages of their homes on Wednesday in the wake of Hurricane Felix.
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On streets still caked with dried mud, vendors sold sacks of flour and avocados Saturday as commerce slowly returns to this flood-ravaged city &#151; with sharply higher prices that are putting a pinch on the desperately poor and hungry.
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SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras - Planes shuttled tourists from island resorts in a desperate airlift yesterday as Hurricane Felix bore down on Honduras and Belize. But thousands of Miskito Indians were stranded along a swampy coastline where the Category 4 storm was expected to make landfall.
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By Dee Dixon, The Beaumont Enterprise, Texas  Sep. 25--The hurricane twisted off trees a few feet above the ground. Small buildings disappeared.   Merchandise from the neighborhood store was found two miles away.   The river turned black, killing all the fish.