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...SHILLINGBURG Canal Winchester, Ohio...
...construction before finishing the designs in hopes of beating the first storm. Though they'll miss the deadline, he says, "there is really little risk [from hurricanes] in June." Just in case, the Corps has a backup plan: pilings already stacked at the scene can be driven into the canal bed to stop storm surges--a job that would take three days to complete in the "worst case," Setliff promises. That plan, put into effect along Lake Pontchartrain before Hurricane Rita, worked well--though it was little solace for the unprotected Ninth Ward, which flooded for a second time...
...investigating the fires, Thompson and McBride realized that the city was--revise that: is--losing its ability to pump water out. "If there's not enough pumping power and they close the new floodgates at the end of the drainage canal, that means water is going to back up into the neighborhood," says McBride, 33. As fellow members of the Broadmoor Improvement Association, he and Thompson are supposed to advise residents about rebuilding. "But Joe and I realized we had a real pickle on our hands," says McBride. "No matter what we recommended to residents--raising their houses or putting...
...clues. They happened in different parts of the state: Yovy Suarez Jimenez, 28, was killed in Sunrise, just north of Miami, and Judy Cooper, 43, was found 20 miles north of St. Petersburg. Although nobody witnessed either attack, authorities believe that Jimenez was sitting at the edge of a canal, dangling her feet in the water, when she was seized by an alligator and dragged in. And there is no reason to believe that Cooper was swimming...
...black bears, foraging in suburban backyards. In Florida, it's alligators. And unlike cougars and bears, which are rarely spotted, alligators are everywhere and are almost always docile. Along a path just inside Everglades park's Shark Valley entrance, for example, alligators loll along the bank of the adjacent canal, as uninterested in the people as they are in the bugs that swirl overhead. Yet park employees have seen tourists run over alligators with bikes and wheelchairs, throw rocks at them and stab them with sticks. People even put kids on the backs of the creatures for a gator photo...