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U.S. / NEWS Wed Oct 24, 2007 @ 8:15am neoform

SF Gate -- The Bush administration's disaster assistance chief promised no repeat of the Hurricane Katrina experience Wednesday, saying "this is a new FEMA" as Washington weighed options to help California wildfire victims. "We're going to make sure this operatio.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Aug 14, 2007 @ 8:02am neoform

CNN -- An earthquake on Monday jolted the Big Island of Hawaii, which is already under a hurricane watch and a tropical storm warning. The magnitude 5.3 temblor struck at 7:38 p.m. local time, about 25 miles south of Hilo, according to a preliminary report from.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jun 1, 2007 @ 9:57am neoform

Washington Post -- Where the canal wall burst and doomed the Lower Ninth Ward during Hurricane Katrina, there now stands an imposing concrete monolith. The new flood barrier is taller, wider and, by its shape, harder to topple. But could the rebuilt defenses handle an.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue May 1, 2007 @ 8:27am neoform

Washington Post -- As the winds and water of Hurricane Katrina were receding, presidential confidante Karen Hughes sent a cable from her State Department office to U.S. ambassadors worldwide. Titled "Echo-Chamber Message" -- a public relations term for talking points des.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Dec 21, 2006 @ 9:37am mrmdc

Reuters -- Allstate Corp. (ALL.N: Quote, Profile , Research), the No. 2 U.S. home and auto insurer, said on Wednesday that it was dropping coverage for some 16,000 homeowners on the coast of North and South Carolina in its latest bid to cut hurricane risk... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Oct 24, 2007 @ 8:20am neoform

BBC News -- More than 500,000 people have been ordered to leave their homes to escape wildfires in California in the biggest US evacuation since Hurricane Katrina. Fierce winds are fanning fast-moving fires that have ravaged land from Santa Barbara to the Mexican.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Sep 28, 2007 @ 9:19am neoform

CNN -- Tropical Storm Lorenzo has become a hurricane, the National Hurricane Center reported Thursday evening. The storm, speeding along at 75 mph (125 km) at 8 p.m. ET, was expected to come ashore in Mexico early Friday. Additional strengthening is possible.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Sep 14, 2007 @ 8:15am neoform

USA Today -- While thousands of people in Louisiana and Texas will have a heavy cleanup job from the unexpected force of Hurricane Humberto, the storm's strongest effect could be an emotional one. Still rebuilding from past storms, communities throughout the region.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Sep 13, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

MSNBC -- In Erin's footsteps Last month, at least six deaths were blamed on Tropical Storm Erin, which dropped nearly a foot of rain in parts of San Antonio, Houston and the Texas Hill Country. In 2001, slow-moving Tropical Storm Allison soaked Houston, dump.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Sep 13, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

CBS News -- Hurricane Humberto crashed ashore along southeast Texas early Thursday, bringing heavy rains and maximum sustained winds of up to 80 mph as it made its way to Louisiana, the National Weather Service said. The Category 1 storm made landfall about 5 mile.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Sep 13, 2007 @ 8:15am neoform

USA Today -- Hurricane Humberto crashed ashore along southeast Texas early Thursday, bringing heavy rains and maximum sustained winds of up to 80 mph as it made its way to Louisiana, the National Weather Service said. The Category 1 storm made landfall about 5 mile.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Sep 13, 2007 @ 8:13am neoform

SF Gate -- Hurricane Humberto crashed ashore along southeast Texas early Thursday, bringing heavy rains and maximum sustained winds of up to 80 mph as it made its way to Louisiana, the National Weather Service said. The Category 1 storm made landfall about 5 mile.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Sep 13, 2007 @ 8:13am neoform

CNN -- A soggy Hurricane Humberto plowed into southeastern Texas early Thursday, making landfall just north of Galveston, the National Hurricane Center reported. The storm, which had quickly grown from a tropical depression to a Category 1 hurricane, came ashore.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Sep 8, 2007 @ 1:44pm neoform

CBS News -- The owners of a nursing home where 35 patients died after Hurricane Katrina were acquitted Friday of negligent homicide and cruelty charges for not evacuating the facility as the storm approached. The jury took about four hours to acquit Sal and Mabel.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Sep 4, 2007 @ 3:45pm neoform

SF Gate -- Hurricane Felix slammed into Nicaragua's Miskito Coast as a record-setting Category 5 storm Tuesday, whipping metal rooftops through the air like razors and forcing thousands to flee. Hurricane Henriette made for a direct hit on the Cabos resorts of Mexic.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Aug 29, 2007 @ 8:22am neoform

USA Today -- President Bush is marking Hurricane Katrina's devastating blow two years ago by celebrating those he says have "dedicated their lives to the renewal of New Orleans" even as he and others are criticized for not doing more to get the city and Gulf Coast bac.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Aug 21, 2007 @ 8:20am neoform

BBC News -- Hurricane Dean has struck Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula near the border with Belize, bringing driving winds and lashing rain. Cancun and other tourist resorts were spared a direct hit as the storm came ashore at 0330 (0830 GMT) about 40 miles (65km) north.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Aug 21, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

USA Today -- Officials braced for the possibility of flooding or even a direct hit from Hurricane Dean, which struck Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula early Tuesday and was forecast to make its way to Central Mexico. Forecasters said the outer bands of the Category 5 hur.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Aug 21, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

USA Today -- Hurricane Dean crashed into the Caribbean coast of Mexico on Tuesday as a roaring Category 5 hurricane, the most intense Atlantic storm to make landfall in two decades. It lashed ancient Mayan ruins and headed for the modern oil installations of the Yucat.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Aug 18, 2007 @ 1:10pm neoform

USA Today -- Hurricane Dean barreled across the central Caribbean Saturday and took aim at Hispaniola, Jamaica and Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, with forecasters saying it could turn into a monster Category 5 storm within 72 hours. With sustained winds now at 150 mph.. Read More