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...That afternoon, two six-member squads are sent to search an area that was previously wetlands with numerous residents and businesses, but after Rita, now resembles an island near Cameron Parish. The plan is to insert USAR teams by Coast Guard helicopter. They'll be searching some 300 to 400 residential structures and 40 to 80 commercial buildings in a 2.5 square-mile area. The FEMA liaison, Capt. Larry Collins of the Los Angeles Fire Department, says an air survey showed 80-100% destruction, "nothing but slabs" in parts of the area...
...Reall warns the six-member team to be ready to bivouac overnight, as the Coast Guard pilots are on the verge of exhausting their flight hours. "It was wetlands that were isolated. It's now an island. There may not even be anywhere you can lay down," Reall says. The group packs sledgehammers, MREs and medical kits. They're ready in a jiffy, and then they wait. Talk turns to food. "You plan on eating alligator?" one team member asks Lt. Chuck Wagoner of the West Chester, Ohio, Fire Department, pointing at a huge knife hung on Wagoner's shoulder...
With the Black Bears registering 11 attack errors in game two, it seemed as if Harvard would coast through the frame. Instead, the Crimson matched Maine’s poor attack, hitting only...
...mildew or figuring out how to afford a house where there is just a slab. For Republicans in Washington, Katrina recovery means showing they are on top of things, fixing broken government channels and coping with a whopping bill. President Bush plans to go back to the Gulf Coast again this week after spending his weekend on a rare two-night stay on the road to supervise the federal response to Rita. Congress will launch its investigation of the response to Katrina and take up such legislation as aid for petroleum refiners and Medicaid reimbursement for evacuees who have left...
...Friday the center, a spare room in the Pentagon's basement, was humming with activity, fully staffed for handling both the Katrina recovery and preparations for Hurricane Rita, which would hit the Texas and Louisiana coast the next day. Fifteen people on each shift shared six computer workstations with a Special Forces Colonel, Jeff Pounding in charge...