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The Corps of Engineers plans to strengthen the floodwall on the London Avenue Canal...
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A federal judge says the agency showed 'gross negligence' in the years before Katrina. The ruling could leave the government open to billions in claims.
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Two Chevron Corp. employees were rescued from an offshore oil platform 80 miles south of New Orleans on Monday after the facility was damaged because of Hurricane Ida, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
A walkway that connects crew members' living area to the rest of the platform was damaged by a wayward lift boat, stranding the two men, O'Berry said. A video shot by the Coast Guard shows rescuers hoisting the men into a helicopter in 28 mile-per-hour winds and choppy waters.
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At 9 AM CST...1500 UTC...all hurricane warnings and watches along the Gulf Coast have been discontinued. A tropical storm warning is now in effect from Grand Isle Louisiana eastward to the Aucilla River Florida... including New Orleans and Lake Pontchartrain.
A tropical storm warning means that tropical storm conditions are expected somewhere within the warning area within 24 hours.
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Tropical Storm Ida is likely to strengthen into a hurricane before it enters the Gulf of Mexico but then probably will turn into an extratropical low-pressure system as it hits cooler water in the northern Gulf, National Hurricane Center forecasters said this afternoon.
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Ida has reached hurricane force as it nears Nicaragua's mainland. The National Weather Service said Thursday morning that a hurricane warning was issued for the east coast of Nicaragua from Bluefields to Puerto Cabezas. Hurricane force winds are expected during the next several hours.
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CHERYL GERBER/The Associated PressThe billion-dollar West Closure Structure, under construction outside New Orleans, will close off canals that can become conduits for a storm surge during a hurricane.
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New Orleans Mayor, C. Ray Nagin arrived in Cuba on Friday to study the communist government's disaster response system.
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Satellite data indicate that the area of low pressure located east Of the Lesser Antilles has strengthened into tropical storm Henri... The eighth named tropical cyclone of the season. At 500 PM AST... 2100 UTC...the center of tropical storm Henri was located near Latitude 17.8 north... Longitude 54.0 west or about 600 miles... 965 Km... East of the northern Leeward Islands.
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In cooperation with the Louisiana and South Carolina Departments of Insurance, the Competitive Enterprise Institute with the Independent Institute has gathered a distinguished group of speakers and attendees to address the multitude of issues we face in making reform work. Over two days of panels, seminars, and workshops, the conference will focus on the successes and challenges that hurricane-prone states have faced in ambitious property insurance reform efforts.
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