With Nowhere to Go, Hurricane Homeless Await Help
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PUNTA GORDA, Fla.  - Kathy Tooker has staked out a  space for herself and her four kids on the linoleum floor of a  Red Cross shelter and filled it with an inflatable mattress,  gym mats, a crib for the baby and bags of clothes and toys.
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At the end of a hurricane season that left much of Florida in ruins, thousands of families remain displaced, with new requests for housing every day.
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Driven from splintered trailers, roofless condos and powerless suburban homes, Hurricane Charley's hungry victims sweated through long lines Monday to find food, showers and drinking water three days after the storm left their lives in shambles.
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Awaiting the arrival of the state&#39;s second major hurricane in just three weeks, businesses and agencies across Florida are rolling out disaster preparedness plans to secure systems and communications infrastructure against the predicted high-winds
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As people made homeless by Hurricane Charley began another week living in makeshift shelters, federal officials pledged Sunday that more substantial temporary housing was on the way but gave conflicting information about the scope of what would be available.
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SARASOTA, Fla. - The devastation brought on by Hurricane Charley has been especially painful for an elderly population that is among the largest in the nation...
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For Thanksgiving, Annie Johnston, her grandson and some neighbors made green bean casserole and stuffing and ate outside by flashlight. They had the meager leftovers for the next three days. They had hoped that by Christmas &#151; three months after back-to-back hurricanes hit &#151; life would be easier. But the days have only become harder for many poor families like Johnston's.
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Many residents resolve to stay in the state - except when hurricanes pass through.
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GONAIVES, Haiti, Sept 26  - Thousands of inhabitants of the devastated Haitian city of Gonavies on Sunday picked through the debris of their flooded homes and wrecked streets in the wake of Tropical Storm Jeanne, gingerly emerging from church and
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VERO BEACH, Fla. - People lined up 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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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 residents spent another day scrounging for food and water.
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Every time Paul Mehok of National Nail Co. sees a hurricane coming toward the Southeast, he feels &quot;this little guilt twinge.&quot;.
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Disaster relief agencies in Florida are beginning to confront one of their most difficult problems: finding long-term housing for thousands of displaced residents.
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GONAIVES, Haiti -- Survivors who were left with almost nothing after Hurricane Jeanne devastated this town buried unclaimed corpses in mud-clogged backyards yesterday and attacked aid trucks and even neighbors bringing them food.
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Millions were left without power and hundreds of thousands without ready access to gasoline, groceries or other daily staples.
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Insecurity continues to hamper relief efforts in northern Haiti, as rescue workers struggle to distribute relief supplies to thousands of flood victims in the city of Gonaives.
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Dewey Cuthbertson knew there would be damage to his mobile home in the aftermath of Hurricane Jeanne. But he was not prepared for this.