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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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Officials: Texas Needs $40B From Feds for Ike Cleanup

Mayors ask Congress to move quickly on relief

Sep 23, 08 4:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - Texas officials told Congress today they might need up to $40 billion in aid to rebuild the state's hurricane-hit areas, the Houston Chronicle reports. The state's lieutenant governor sought at least $11.5 billion of aid and as many trailer homes as available to help the 770 communities damaged by... More »

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Houston • FEMA • Federal aid • Galveston • FEMA trailers • disaster • Hurricane Gustav • Hurricane Ike • Mayor Bill White

(AP) - Rescue crews in high-wheel trucks, helicopters and boats ventured out to pluck people from their homes today in an all-out search for thousands of Texans who stubbornly stayed behind overnight to face Hurricane Ike. The storm blew out skyscraper windows, cut power to millions and swamped thousands of homes along... More »

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Texas • Houston • damage • Galveston • disaster • Hurricane Ike

 Texas Illegals Promised 
 'Hurricane Amnesty' 

Officials don't want immigration enforcement to impede evacuations

Sep 12, 08 1:59 PM CDT
(Newser) - The federal government has declared a “hurricane amnesty” in an attempt to get Texas’ illegal immigrants out of Hurricane Ike’s way, the Christian Science Monitor reports. Immigration officials will not attempt to arrest illegals in shelters or along common evacuation routes. The Red Cross has begun outreach programs... More »

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illegal immigrant • Texas • storm • amnesty • FEMA • hurricane • undocumented workers • disaster • Hurricane Ike

 China Landslide Kills 34, 
 Traps Hundreds 

Rescuers search for survivors after mud sweeps through Shanxi valley

Sep 9, 08 5:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - Rescuers are frantically searching through rubble for survivors of a landslide in northern China that killed at least 34 people, the AP reports. Hundreds are feared missing after a reservoir of mining waste collapsed in the northern province of Shanxi, sending a wall of thick sludge sweeping through a valley... More »

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China • coal mine • landslide • disaster zones • disaster • mine disasters

OPINION

 Gustav Histrionics 
 Were Irresponsible 

Gustav prep was 'responsibility avoidance': Furedi

Sep 3, 08 2:48 PM CDT
(Newser) - The way media and the state reacted to Gustav wasn't responsible behavior, but rather "responsibility avoidance ... motivated by a desire to avoid blame," Frank Furedi writes in Spiked. He says official overreaction diminishes a sense of community and individual resilience, rendering people passive to the whims of politicians... More »

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New Orleans • Louisiana • Ray Nagin • disaster • Hurricane Gustav

(AP) - President Bush flew over flooded fields and downed trees today as he kept a close watch on the Hurricane Gustav recovery —in contrast to his administration's bungled response to Katrina 3 years ago. Aboard Air Force One, Bush received a briefing from FEMA director R. David Paulison, who said... More »

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Hurricane Katrina • White House • severe weather • relief • George W. Bush • disaster • Hurricane Gustav

UPDATED

 Gustav Floods Upper 9th Ward 


Sep 1, 08 12:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - Six inches of water from Hurricane Gustav is flooding the Upper Ninth Ward of New Orleans, but the Army Corps of Engineers says the situation is not a major danger, the Times-Picayune reports. The Lower Ninth Ward’s levees, which were reinforced after Hurricane Katrina, have not given way. "... More »

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New Orleans • storm • Ray Nagin • disaster • Hurricane Gustav

(AP) - New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin tonight ordered the mandatory evacuation of New Orleans, turning informal advice to flee from Gustav into an official order to "get out of town." Nagin didn't mince words, referring to Gustav as the "storm of the century." The order takes effect... More »

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GOP Watching Gustav to Decide on Convention

Mac says party won't celebrate if US is battling hurricane

Aug 30, 08 7:08 PM CDT
(Newser) - GOP leaders are monitoring Hurricane Gustav "from day to day" to decide whether to delay the Republican National Convention, John McCain said today. “It just wouldn't be appropriate to have a festive occasion while a near-tragedy or a terrible challenge is presented in the form of a natural... More »

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John McCain • Republican Party • disaster • Hurricane Gustav • Republican National Convention

(AP) - Spooked by Hurricane Gustav's rapid move toward Category 5 strength, a million residents of the Gulf Coast fled today as a hurricane watch was issued for Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and part of Texas. Gustav is likely to become a Category 5—with sustained winds of 156 mph or more—by... More »

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New Orleans • Gulf Coast • disaster • Hurricane Gustav

 Survivors Tell of K2 Disaster 

Worst mountaineering tragedy since 1986

Aug 28, 08 2:36 PM CDT
(Newser) - After braving a challenge that trumps Everest—one that claimed the lives of 11 fellow mountaineers—the survivors of this month's K2 disaster tell Andrew Buncombe of the Independent about their harrowing descent. Battling frostbite, Italian guide Marco Confortola watched helplessly as his friends died, while Dutch climber Wilco... More »

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Himalayas • survivors • avalanche • disaster • K2 • mountain climber

Pilots' Union Warned Spanair: Operations Are a 'Disaster'

Union told management fleet was too old as early as 2007

Aug 22, 08 1:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - Pilots at Spanair, operator of the MD80 airliner that crashed in Madrid this week, killing 153, warned management repeatedly that passenger safety was compromised by the “chaotic” way the airline was operated, the Times of London reports. Emails from the Spanish pilots union claimed the fleet  wasn’t being... More »

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plane crash • air disasters • Madrid • disaster • airplanes • Spanair

UPDATED

 149 Confirmed Dead
 in Spain Crash

Bodies too hot to touch after fiery disaster; 26 survive

Aug 20, 08 1:44 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Spanish government confirms that 149 people died when a Spanair jet crashed shortly after takeoff from Madrid's airport today, the AP reports. Only 26 survived the horrific crash, which tore the aircraft apart to the point that rescue workers said the wreckage didn’t look like a plane and... More »

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Spain • plane crash • death toll • airplane • disaster • ambulance • Spanair

Atop Deadly K2, Climbers Hit Perfect Storm of Tragedy

11 deaths make worst climbing incident since 1986

Aug 6, 08 8:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - This weekend’s disaster on K2, in which 11 climbers lost their lives on the world’s second-highest peak, was one of the climbing’s greatest tragedies. Though “the weather was perfect” when climbers set off Friday, the New York Times takes a look at how the treacherous slopes,... More »

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Himalayas • disaster • K2 • mountain • mountain climber

 US Seeks to Weaken Hurricanes

Scientists propose techniques to modify the weather

Aug 2, 08 1:42 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Department of Homeland Security is hoping that weather-altering techniques can lessen the devastation caused by hurricanes, the Daily Telegraph reports. A hurricane reduction program likely to begin in October will devote $64 million to efforts such as spreading tiny salt particles in the storms to drain them of much... More »

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weather • Hurricane Katrina • severe weather • winds • flood • Department of Homeland Security • hurricane • weather modification • disaster preparedness • disaster

opinion

 Please, Media,
 That Was No Quake

The only real damage was to one columnist's workday

Aug 1, 08 7:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - The brouhaha over the California earthquake this week was generated as much by media as trembling ground, Joel Stein writes in the Los Angeles Times. The quake did damage Stein's workday, however, because he had to field so many calls from worried, out-of-state loved ones who saw the overhyped coverage... More »

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Los Angeles • Richter scale • quake • earthquake • disaster

 Chinese Cheered by Eclipse 

Nation desperate for good sign a week before Olympics

Aug 1, 08 5:23 PM CDT
(AP) - Finally, China had an act of nature it could celebrate. After an Olympic year of freakish natural disasters, crowds of Chinese watched a total solar eclipse along the country's ancient Silk Road on Friday, one week before the start of the Summer Games in Beijing, the AP reports. More »

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 16 Girls Killed, More
 Trapped in Turkey
 Dorm Collapse 

Rescue teams dig frantically to unearth survivors

Aug 1, 08 9:35 AM CDT
(AP) - A three-story dormitory housing female students collapsed in central Turkey today, killing at least 16 girls, injuring at least 27, and setting off a search for a half-dozen students believed to be under the rubble. The students, between ages 8 and 16, were attending Koran courses in the city of... More »

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Turkey • recovery • collapse • disaster

 Ragtag Levees Leave
 Midwest Soaking 

Locals and towns run disorganized barrier system

Jun 22, 08 10:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - As the Midwest battles massive flooding, the New York Times looks at the region's patchwork of homemade levees—which fail to meet federal standards and tend to spring unexpected leaks. Bill Clinton's White House advised a uniform levy system 15 years ago, but the report was read and forgotten. “... More »

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Iowa • flooding • Illinois • Missouri • levees • disaster • Midwest floods

UPDATED

7.2-Mag Quake Kills 6 in Northern Japan

Jun 14, 08 7:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - A 7.2-magnitude earthquake jolted northern Japan today, killing at least 6 people and injuring more than 140 others, the AP reports. Landslides trapped another 100 bathers at a hot springs resort, but no tsunami warning was issued. At a nuclear power plant, 5 gallons of radioactive water splashed from... More »

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tsunami • Japan • nuclear power plant • earthquake • disaster

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