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Hurricane: Hurricane Katrina
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The survivors of Hurricane Katrina are beginning to rebuild. And just as predictably, the debate over where they should rebuild and what the U.S. government should do to encourage or discourage them, is beginning, too. That debate could make for some strange bedfellows in the nation's capital--the insurance industry and environmentalists.
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The response of Americans for Hurricane Katrina victims has been amazing. This has brought many people together, espcially those who live in the South. Every year the Gulf Coast in effected by hurricanes, but none have been nearly as bad a Katrina. The Red Cross has done its job and gone far beyond anyones expectations.
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Only a few days after Hurricane Katrina, some kids near Philadelphia opened a little lemonade stand to raise money for the victims. Other kidscollected teddy bears at school.In Maryland, three sisters (ages 14, 11, and 8) came up with an idea to send backpacks stuffed with coloring books and other treats for kids who were evacuated. And a girl in Iowa came up with more of a treat than a trick for Halloween. Talia Leman has organized kids totrick-or-treat for loose change that will benefit hurricane victims.
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency said Monday it will extend the time Hurricane Katrina's victims can live in the agency's travel trailers and mobile homes. Under FEMA policy, most hurricane victims get up to 18 months of housing assistance. But FEMA has extended that time period before.
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NEW ORLEANS, Aug 28, 2005 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ -- Whitney National Bank offices in Greater New Orleans and other areas of South Louisiana and Mississippi in the path of Hurricane Katrina will be closed on Monday, August 29, 2005. Whitney branches located in areas not affect by the storm will observe normal hours.
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Hurricane Katrina made landfall as a category 4 storm in Plaquemines Parish, LA on August 29, 2005. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), NASA, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and the University of New Orleans are cooperating in a research project investigating coastal change that occurred as a result of Hurricane Katrina.
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