Word: wheelchairs
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...continued to work at the Extension School until last spring, although he was in a wheelchair due to a broken...
...time for a facelift,” said Sharon C. Black, director of planning at HBS. Black noted that the original structure lacked air conditioning and wheelchair access in the stacks...
Finally, they reached Yolanda's father's house in Port St. John, Fla., where they rested for a few days. But they were having trouble getting a wheelchair and other assistance for Yolanda's mother. Jan convinced Yolanda that their best bet was to return to Boston, where they had met and married before moving to Louisiana only two months before Katrina's landfall. "I've been a Bostonian all my life. They'll help us there," she said. Jan and Sonny, 5, went to Boston to look for options. Meanwhile, Yolanda signed up on openyourhome.com The next...
...Hawks to rescue survivors, have seen what residents stranded without electricity could not--the utter devastation out east in St. Bernard and Plaquemines parishes, where the Gulf of Mexico has played no favorites, inundating millionaire McMansions and modest homes alike. In the middle of an intersection sits an abandoned wheelchair, water lapping at the handlebars, its occupant carried who knows where by the floodwaters. Cars line another roadway, their doors open as if the drivers thought they could outrun the 20-ft. surges...
...South Floridians, especially the hardy, beach-bum individualists in places like the Keys-like Lionel Barrymore's defiant character in the hurricane classic Key Largo, who like James Mosley was wheelchair-bound-used to share that cultural machismo. But when a storm like Katrina moves in these days, people in the Keys, even the poor, are usually seen moving out. It may not look cowboy brave-but it's citizen smart...