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Districts help keep homeless kids in school (The Facts) - 118 weeks ago

Hundreds of students in Brazoria County go to school sleep-deprived and to bed hungry. They move from place to place, living in temporary homes, often with no room to study.

NASA technology captures massive hurricane waves (PhysOrg) - 119 weeks ago

A hurricane's fury can be relentless, from frightening winds, to torrential rains and flooding. These storms also create enormous ocean waves that are hazardous to ships. And through storm surges of up to 30 feet the storms can demolish shoreline structures, erode beaches and wash out coastal roads.

Back home in the dome (Fort Worth Star-Telegram) - 119 weeks ago

NEW ORLEANS -- At first, Marilyn Felder wasn't sure she wanted to come back. She and her husband, Jimmy, had endured two days in the Superdome with 30,000 other New Orleanians during Hurricane Katrina.

Rita survivors mark one year (Disaster News Network) - 119 weeks ago

BEAUMONT, Texas (September 24, 2006) — Thousands of residents are still in need one year after Hurricane Rita and recovery agencies continue receiving new calls for help each week.

Recovering from Rita (The Lufkin Daily News) - 119 weeks ago

First-time visitors to the Black Forest Community following Hurricane Rita a year ago might not recognize the scenic, lakeside community deep in the Angelina National Forest in the southern tip of Angelina County today — if it weren't for their landmark, gravity-fed water tower.

A Witness And Rescuers Recall The Rita Bus Fire (KERA North Texas) - 119 weeks ago

A year ago tomorrow, Hurricane Rita threatened landfall in Texas, forcing more than a million people from Houston. There's one iconic image from that evacuation - a burning and charred bus, that had carried nursing home patients away from the hurricane. 23 perished. 90.1's Bill Zeeble talked to an eyewitness and some rescue workers about what they remember

The Eroding of America (Salt Lake City Weekly) - 119 weeks ago

Katrina’s winds shredded through the Gulf South like a giant scythe, but it was the flood in New Orleans that jolted the national psyche, leaving the deepest memory. The flood turned the Big Easy into a disaster zone, planting the image of a Third World backwater.

UMB Symposium Will Commemorate Hurricane Katrina (The Mass Media) - 120 weeks ago

A little over a year ago, Hurricane Katrina hit the southern Gulf region and met the residents with disastrous, life-shattering consequences. Lack of forethought and planning ahead by the federal government and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), coupled with results detrimental to the entire area presented a poor image of the US, not only to nations across the world watching the

Texas Briefs -- 3/24/06 (KXAN 36 Austin) - 120 weeks ago

In Friday's Texas briefs, former First Lady Barbara Bush is urging local business owners to support schools and education, the search for a missing 5-year-old ends in tragedy, and more.

Earthquake in the Gulf of Mexico (The Herald-Tribune) - 121 weeks ago

A magnitude 6.0 earthquake was detected in the Gulf of Mexico, about 250 miles west-southwest of Bradenton this morning and was felt by people from Texas to Florida.