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...really feel that we are the forgotten disaster.' GREG EYERLY, flood-recovery director for Cedar Rapids, Iowa, which is struggling to rebound from a June 2008 deluge that killed more than a dozen people in several Midwestern states...
...room. Kirkland Building Manager Scott Haywood says office and curtain partitions are generally fine, although preferably they should be flame resistant or flame retardant. Obviously, you’re not allowed to bring in plywood and build a wall in the middle of your common room. If a flood of sprinkler water will easily knock down your partition, you’re probably fine...
...last week in August, People of Walmart went viral, earning mention on websites like Funny or Die. Its traffic increased by 700% on Aug. 27 alone. Photo submissions went from one or two to more than 120. The flood of visitors has even crashed the site. (See the 50 best websites...
...organization is doing more to green New Orleans than Global Green USA, the American arm of the international environmental organization that was founded by former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. That begins with the Holy Cross project, an entire sustainable village being built in the city's flood-damaged Lower Ninth Ward with the help of Home Depot's corporate foundation. Eventually the village will include five sustainable homes along with an 18-unit green apartment building and a community center. Three homes have been completed so far, including one that is serving as a de facto visitors center. The point...
...Sosuke's town has just gone through a cleansing car wash. "Rather than the tsunami destroying the town," Miyazaki says, "I took it as her own sense of life overflowing, and that helped to revitalize the town. None of the buildings were destroyed in the flood. You can see them all beneath the water. That's magic...