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Gulf Stream: Town Commission hires new disaster debris removal firm
The Town Commission has voted to hire a new disaster debris removal company. The contract with Alabama-based TAG Grinding Services Inc. states that the company will respond within 24 hours after a disaster. It will charge the town $6.75 per cubic...Tags: Public Employees, Government
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Licensing system will combat mortgage fraud
There are lots of proposed remedies to prevent another mortgage catastrophe like the one we're going through now. Most of the suggestions I've seen won't fix the loopholes that allowed so many borrowers to take on mortgage loans they couldn't afford. But...Tags: Fraud, Corporate Crime, Personal Data Collection, Interior Policy, Loans
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Sacrifice caps Alabama's comeback against UF
Staff and wire reportsMatt Bentley's drive to deep right-center looked like a sure three-run home run until Florida's Riley Cooper caught up to it for an amazing catch, but it was still deep enough to score Jeff Texada from second for a sacrifice fly that lifted Alabama past...Tags: Natural Disasters, Athletics, Track and Field, Multi-Sport Events, Universities, Clothing and Textiles Industry
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A garden of hope grows after Katrina
The Associated PressA concrete schoolyard has been transformed into a garden of learning in hurricane-recovering New Orleans, where students plant and weed, harvest produce and learn to cook it. There are lessons in arithmetic and science, but chef Alice Waters said what'...Tags: Building Material, Hurricanes, Charter Schools, Natural Disasters, Metal and Mineral
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South Florida: See how surge could affect region
Those who live in low-lying coastal areas now will be able to see how they might be affected by storm surge if a tropical storm threatens, thanks to a new graphic on the National Hurricane Center's Web site, nhc.noaa.gov. Storm surge is the steady rise...Tags: Natural Disasters, Meteorological Disasters, Hurricanes, Tropical Storms, National Hurricane Center
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Boat laden with relief supplies for Myanmar sinks
YANGON, Myanmar - Myanmar's monumental task of feeding and sheltering 1.5 million cyclone survivors suffered yet another blow yesterday when a boat laden with relief supplies - one of the first international shipments - sank on its way to the disaster...Tags: Transportation Accidents, Maritime Accidents, Weather Warnings, Coup d'Etat, Foreign Aid
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Myanmar's cyclone victims brace for new storm
By a Times Staff WriterU Maung Saw and his family are in a race against the rain. Tropical Cyclone Nargis pounded their house as flat as the mud where the broken pieces now lie. A 5-foot wave, driven by a storm surge that rolled 20 miles upriver from the Andaman Sea, crashed...Tags: Emergency Planning, Emergency Incidents, Foreign Aid
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Aid dribbles in to Myanmar cyclone victims
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterRelief supplies including the first U.S. aid flight dripped into Myanmar today, but the sinking of a Red Cross barge underscored the logistical nightmare of distributing food and shelter to survivors in the swampy aftermath of Tropical Cyclone Nargis....Tags: Emergency Incidents, Foreign Aid, United Nations
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Cyclone Sufferers Wait
We learned from the flawed response to Hurricane Katrina that governments, even at their best and most democratic, are not always dependable when disaster strikes. But imagine the terror right now in Myanmar, the military-run dictatorship that used to...Tags: Natural Disasters, Emergency Incidents, Foreign Aid, Westport, United Nations
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Valuable lessons should be learned from natural disasters like Myanmar
By Andrea Allen Again we see horrifying pictures of a natural disaster's effects. Again we witness an inadequate recovery response. This time, it happened not in our country; this time, it happened across the world in the country of Myanmar,...Tags: Hurricanes, Meteorological Disasters, Illnesses, Mental Illness, Lower House
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