katrina

August 30, 2005 - By R. Neal The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is mounting a massive response in the wake of Katrina's devastation: (Click on the "there's more" link below for the rest of the article...)

August 30, 2005 - By R. Neal Lousiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco said on CNN last night that the situation was "dire." Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour called it "catastrophic."

August 29, 2005 - By R. Neal Those of us who have lived in Southern coastal states are all too familiar with hurricanes, but we haven’t seen anything like Katrina in over a decade. The last Category 5 hurricane to make landfall in the U.S. was, I believe, Andrew in 1992. It slammed Southern Florida and went on across the Gulf and slammed New Orleans.