Word: fema
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...that point was a grim one, made with a mixture of anger and exasperation and a plea for more federal help. Nearly two years after Hurricane Katrina cut its destructive path through the Gulf Coast, the NOPD has found little relief. Six FEMA trailers make up its headquarters. The traffic department and SWAT team also call several double-wide units home. Seventy-two officers have left the force this year. Of the 1,200 that remain (down from 1741 before the storm), there is only a single fingerprint examiner and only one expert firearm examiner. This year, the deadliest city...
...lined up for people who don't have their own transportation out of New Orleans if an evacuation is ordered. Officials are still negotiating with Amtrak for trains to evacuate the disabled and those too sick to be crowded onto buses. And thousands of families are still living in FEMA trailers hardly built to withstand a strong wind, much less another Katrina...
...mild season in 2006 has plunged Americans in hurricane-vulnerable states into a dangerous amnesia," said Ron Sachs, executive director of the National Hurricane Survival Initiative, a public education and safety outreach partnership between government organizations, relief agencies and corporations. The initiative works with the National Hurricane Center, FEMA, The National Emergency Management Association, the Salvation Army and the State of North Carolina, as well as corporate partners including Travelers, Plylox...
...home rebuilding program in East Biloxi and Pearlington, Mississippi, that will use recycled yellow pine, heart pine and cypress to create stylish, middle-income houses. Once Palleroni's recycled furniture finds a home in those and other rebuilt homes, then maybe the only waste left will be those ugly FEMA trailers...
...wind up in landfills or get dumped into the surrounding lakes and bayous. That's a shame, says Bryan Bell of the non-profit Design Corps who is consulting on the Katrina Furniture Project and worries that New Orleans' distinctive architecture will vanish in a city still dotted with FEMA trailers. Many of the materials used to build the homes more than a century ago are irreplaceable, including the virgin cypress from local swamps and antique "barge boards." Made of 2-in.-thick oak, the boards came from the sides of barges, which were built in the Midwest...