Word: louisiana
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Hurricane Rita crashed into the coast bordering Lousiana and Texas on Saturday, causing considerably less damage than Hurricane Katrina, which struck Louisiana and Mississippi on Aug. 29. Although the estimated damage of Hurricane Rita is $4.5 billion, the death toll is about 10 people, much less than that of Hurricane Katrina, which totaled over...
...sleeping in a parking lot," says Marcus Chapman, 30, a Westerville, Ohio, firefighter, his head resting on a John Deere tractor pillowcase given him by his wife. But the USAR teams are from everywhere but here, and they can't guess who needs help in rural Louisiana. So unless they're tasked to tackle an specific, known emergency, a team will wait for orders in the morning-when, by daylight, they can better negotiate potentially lethal downed power lines, for example. A USAR motto, says Pat Aungst, a structural engineer on the team-and a descendant of Woodrow Wilson...
...only fair to ask where, on the spectrum of barbarism, we would locate the killing of Iraqi civilians, the razing of Fallujah, the depravity at Abu Ghraib prison and the self-righteous obscenity at Guantánamo Bay. And how about the abandonment of the desperate hurricane victims in Louisiana and Mississippi? In Iraq, limitless U.S. resources are deployed while at home poor Americans, thirsty and starving, founder in toxic effluent. All around the globe, people are watching, incredulous, as the Bush Administration displays its unique abilities to turn a natural disaster into an issue of law and order...
...committee looking into the government's Katrina response. The chair, Rep. Thomas M. Davis III (R-Va.), said Brown agreed to appear voluntarily. The former director can be expected to elaborate on an interview he gave the New York Times two days after he quit, in which he blamed Louisiana state officials but also made it clear that the administration responded sluggishly after he told top officials that "things were going to Hell in a handbasket" in Louisiana. David Marin, the select committee's staff director, said members will begin with "the most obvious" questions, including: "Looking back now, what...
...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...