Last Updated Stories in Hurricane Katrina

When Manila became a Katrina: Our True EDSA

Some years ago, Hurricane Katrina devastated some places in the States. People pooled their resources together and after two years, things began to normalize. That hurricane brought people together and made bonds of citizenship stronger. Now, we, here in Metro Manila, face...

Hurricane Jimena Forms in the Pacific as Storm Danny Weakens

Hurricane Jimena forms in the Pacific as a Category 1 storm today, as tropical storm Danny become a depression and dumps heavy rain on the eastern seaboard with some dangerous currents along the coast, closing some of the beaches again. Hurricane Jimena currently has winds of...

Hurricane Camille: 40th Anniversary

Hurricane Camille struck the US gulf coast on August 17, 1969: today is the 40th anniversary of Hurricane Camille's landfall. Hurricane Camille struck Cuba, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi directly, deluging the...

Jessie Pullins reunited with his dog JJ four years after Katrina

Jessie Pullins was heartbroken when he couldn't take his dog JJ with him when he was evacuated during Hurricane Katrina, but four years later they are back together.""I made adequate provisions in the back part of my house in elevated area, and when I left I though I would be...

Nuevo New Orleans: Latino Immigrants Remake the Crescent City

BY PETER HOLDERNESS, MEDILL NEWS SERVICE Fernando Saucedo crossed the U.S.-Mexico border on July 4, 2005, headed for Houston. The farmer from Zacatecas joined a constant stream of Mexicans, Central and South...

Governor Bobby Jindal Fabricated Katrina Story in His Speech

Chosen to deliver the Republican Party's prime time response to President Obama's speech to both houses of Congress on February 24, 2009, Louisana Governor Bobby Jindal related his story of being in...

Will Yellowstone Eruption Be Obama’s Katrina?

With earthquake swarms rattling Yellowstone National Park, seismologists speculating about whether a mega-eruption is imminent and Wyoming residents raising tough questions about the danger of such an event in...

New Orleans named most crime-ridden US city

The city of New Orleans has the highest level of crime in the US, according to an annual ranking of crime rates in American cities.The report from CQ Press draws on data from the FBI on murder, rape, robbery,...

Impact of Hurricane Gustav Might Last Four Years

I’ll wager dimes to donuts that the same people who criticized my recent tongue-in-cheek post post, I’ll Be Praying for Rain in Denver on Aug. 28, are now hoping — but not necessarily praying to God about it since they are atheists — that Hurricane Gustav hits New...

Bush Impeachment Crimes Will Not Be Buried

" Two weeks ago Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) brought an impeachment resolution against President George W. Bush to the House floor.x30x31 It took him nearly five hours to read the resolution’s 35 articles.x32 ...

Arizona REALTORS® Build Home For Hurricane Victim

Three local Bullhead City Real Estate Agents traveled to Mobile, Alabama recently to lend a hand in building a home for Habitat For Humanity's hurricane-response program, Operation Home Delivery, which...

Bush ex-strategist says loses faith in president

"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The chief strategist of George W. Bush's 2004 re-election campaign said he had lost faith in the U.S. president over Iraq and other issues, in a high-level rupture of Bush's famously loyal...

Hurricane Katrina: Big Broken Drive By

I was heading down into the Deep South to live out of my vehicle indefinitely, deep within a natural disaster zone. By that night I would finally be joining a group of proven nutcase art festival volunteers I had yet to meet. I trusted enough through past associations...

Impeachment Scorecard

"The table below shows the content of Congressional and state impeachment resolutions introduced, and impeachment resolutions passed as local ballot issues. It does not show the 24 resolutions passed by town and city councils across the nation (in CA, VT, NY, NC, NH, MA &...

Conversations with Clinton - Democratic Party

As Hillary Clinton sat on the couch in her home, with bookcase in the background, she began a conversation with America.  

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