New Orleans Vulnerable to Destructive Hurricanes
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Residents of the southeastern US city of New Orleans, Louisiana, are fleeing their historic hometown in anticipation of Hurricane Ivan&#39;s approach, knowing the city has been vulnerable over the years to the destructive power of the storms.
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NEW ORLEANS -- Louisiana storm damage experts say a direct hit by Hurricane Ivan could be very bad for New Orleans. With the city&#39;s saucer-shaped topography that dips as much as 9 feet below sea level, there
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NEW ORLEANS - More than a million people in southern Louisiana have been told to get out of the way of Hurricane Ivan. An area of the Gulf Coast stretching from New Orleans to Florida is preparing for the arrival of Ivan.
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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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New Orleans plans a new &#36;700  million jazz district and central park, aiming to use the  devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina as an opportunity to  rebuild the damaged core of the city.
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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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By Jerry Berrios, The Miami Herald  Mar. 13--If a hurricane ravages Broward's main courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, fear not.   The county has prepared a contingency plan to relocate judges, employees and jailed prisoners.
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Plans created at the state and U.S. level to protect Louisiana from Katrina-sized hurricanes would fail to guard dozens of communities.
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Post-Katrina, the city faces a 1-in-100 annual chance of major flooding.  NEW ORLEANS -- The federal government's verdict on the future of New Orleans is in: The city is much safer than before Hurricane Katrina but faces a 1-in-100 chance each year of significant flooding.
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Large parts of New Orleans are still at risk of flooding nearly two years after Hurricane Katrina, a US Army report says.
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MIAMI _ After Hurricane Katrina ripped through New Orleans, Matt Callmeyer struggled to call his wife, who had evacuated. "I had to drive to Baton Rouge to get cell phone service," said the City of New Orleans emergency responder. He felt lucky that he knew where she was.
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The city of New Orleans filed a $77 billion damage claim against the Army Corps of Engineers  Thursday for flooding that inundated the city when levees failed after Hurricane Katrina in August 2005.
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The number of hurricanes churning through  the Caribbean toward the United States this year is likely to  be less than once feared and may even be less than normal, a  noted U.S. hurricane research team said on Friday.
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On the eve of hurricane season, New Orleans has learned Katrina's lesson: Trust no one and nothing
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More than 1.2 million people in metropolitan New Orleans were warned to get out Tuesday as 140-mph Hurricane Ivan churned toward the Gulf Coast, threatening to submerge this
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When hurricane  Katrina devastated New Orleans it also ravaged a series of  small towns. Nearly two years later they have faded from the  spotlight but are still struggling to rebuild.
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PARIS: Cities on the US East Coast and in the Caribbean could be wrecked by a tsunami unleashed by the collapse of a volcanic island in the eastern Atlantic, British scientists believe.