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: ORYXE Energy Plant Fully Operational Despite Hurricane Rita 05 Oct 2005
NewsReleaseWire.com (press release) Irvine, Calif. – October 4, 2005 – ORYXE Energy International announced today that Hurricane Rita did not harm the company’s Pasadena, Texas plant used ...

Rita reroutes carnival to town 05 Oct 2005
Pasadena Citizen, The hurricane was just a minor disruption to the ... Valley Rides is based in La Feria, Texas, and travels ... Winkler was getting ready to leave Pasadena, but leaving ...

COMMUNITY CALENDAR 05 Oct 2005
Dallas Morning News (subscription), ...the 117th Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, Calif ... Nina Kelly, 5820 Deer Park Lane, Plano, Texas 75093 ... THE HURRICANE DISTRIBUTION CENTER at 2040 Redbud Blvd ...

Volunteers Desperately Needed For Salvation Army Oct 4, 2005
Click 2 Houston.com, PASADENA, Texas -- It's been five weeks since Hurricane Katrina and nearly two weeks since Hurricane Rita, but the need for help is still great, KPRC Local 2 ...

To Run from Rita Oct 4, 2005
PNN, ...area was trying to run from Hurricane Rita. ... beach on Galveston Island was enroute to Livingston Texas. ... almost five hours to get from Pasadena (southeast Houston ...

Corruption continues: Check out Baghdad on the Bayou Oct 3, 2005
Pasadena Star-News, ...like Alcoholics Anonymous were doing land-office business in Texas this weekend ... festival and offering free yoga and aromatherapy sessions to hurricane refugees. ...

Special Olympics tournament a fine event Oct 4, 2005
Brazosport Facts (subscription), Clear Creek, Deer Park, Fort Bend County, Pasadena, Goose Creek ... making things smoother if and when another hurricane appears headed for the Texas coast. ...

Web Extra: 5 Construction jobs flourish in storm-damaged regions Oct 3, 2005
Asbury Park Press, Gould just arrived in Kenner from Pasadena, Texas, with two ... at least six friends from Texas to start ... to handle the increased demand for hurricane-related work. ...

Production at Pasadena, Texas Joint Venture Facility Resumes Sep 28, 2005
NPIcenter (press release), FMTI) announced that its Phyto-Source manufacturing facility in Pasadena, Texas, a 50 ... no apparent material property damage from the recent hurricane activity. ...

US Jobless Claims Fall 79,000; Fewer Katrina Losses (Update2) Sep 29, 2005
Bloomberg ...in Pasadena, Texas, on Sept ... Last week's claims report may have been lower than expected because the arrival of Hurricane Rita kept some people from applying for ...

US Jobless Claims Fell to 356,000 on Fewer Katrina Filings Sep 29, 2005
Bloomberg ...in Pasadena, Texas, on Sept ... Hurricane Katrina may cause payrolls to fall by 168,000 in September, the first decline since May 2003, after rising by 169,000 the ...

US refinery outages after Rita seen stretching into weeks Sep 28, 2005
MarketWatch ...obstacle to getting back on line after Hurricane Rita ... Sweeny, Texas 216,000 In restart Valero Texas City 210,000 Trying Astra Pasadena, Texas 100,000 In ...

ConocoPhillips Working to Help Supply US Energy Needs Sep 28, 2005
Business Wire (press release), Following Hurricane Rita, the company reopened its Houston-area terminal in Pasadena, Texas, last Saturday and has been providing fuels to the retail sites it ...

Forbes Medi-Tech Inc.: Phyto-Source Manufacturing Facility Remains ... Sep 28, 2005
PharmaLive.com (press release), FMI)today announced that its Phyto-Source manufacturing facility in Pasadena, Texas, a 50 ... no apparent material property damage from the recent hurricane activity ...

Georgia Gulf Declares 'Force Majeure' Sep 28, 2005
Forbes ...and said two Louisiana plants will remain shutdown following Hurricane Rita until ... Its Pasadena, Texas, cumene facility was already shutdown for a scheduled ...

Oil prices ease as Hurricane Rita nears Texas - UPDATE Sep 22, 2005
Forbes The US National Hurricane Center may have downgraded Rita but the ... on track to make landfall at Galveston, affecting Houston, Texas City, Pasadena and Port ...

Cat Takes Care of Orphaned Squirrel Sep 28, 2005
WPVI, 28, 2005 - Hurricane Rita has brought together quite an unlikely pair. It's a mother cat, taking care of a baby squirrel! A family in Pasadena, Texas found the ...

Georgia Gulf Says Two Plants Remain Down Due to Hurricane Rita ... Sep 28, 2005
Business Wire (press release), ...and acetone, remain shutdown following Hurricane Rita until natural gas, feedstocks and utilities are restored. The Company's Pasadena, Texas cumene facility ...

Hurricane Rita hampers Georgia Gulf Sep 28, 2005
Atlanta Business Chronicle, ...two plants in Louisiana that remain off-line following Hurricane Rita. ... The company's Pasadena, Texas cumene facility was already down for a scheduled turnaround ...

HCA Donates Additional $3 Million to Help Employees Sep 28, 2005
WLOX, ...assistance from employees affected by Hurricane Rita, which ... storm: Mainland Medical Center in Texas City, East ... Webster and Bayshore Medical Center in Pasadena. ...

Granbury welcomes weary evacuees Texas coastal residents flee ... Sep 23, 2005
Hood County News, The hurricane was expected to make landfall along the southeastern Texas coast late Friday or early today (Saturday). ... “We left Pasadena about 11:30 ...

Rita: Minute-by-minute Sep 24, 2005
Denton Record Chronicle (subscription), Orleans residents who lost everything in Hurricane Katrina. 4:08 am A strip shopping center is fully engulfed in flames on Red Bluff Road in Pasadena, Texas. ...

Rita looms large heading toward Texas, New Orleans Sep 22, 2005
San Jose Mercury News, ...and Texas by noon. The first hurricane force winds could arrive by 11 pm Friday. And thus, great numbers of people boarded up, packed up and fled. In Pasadena, ...

Hurricane news briefs from Texas Sep 25, 2005
Denton Record Chronicle (subscription), The Texas Department of State Health Services made ... to return immediately to areas hit by the hurricane. ... their North Houston and Pasadena distribution terminals ...

Hurricane news briefs from Texas Sep 25, 2005
Denton Record Chronicle (subscription), The Pasadena terminal opened Saturday night, the companies ... AUSTIN (AP) — The Texas Department of Public Safety ... a toll-free number for Hurricane Rita evacuees ...

Hurricane Preparation: Solutia closes a Texas manufacturing plant ... Sep 23, 2005
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, ...in Louisiana and Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina. MEMC Electronic Materials Inc. of St. Peters has a manufacturing facility in Pasadena, Texas, 15 miles ...

(Adds Kerr-McGee, BP, Shell, Exxon Mobil, Citgo and Pasadena) Sep 21, 2005
Reuters ...the 55,000 barrel per day in Pasadena once owned by ... Pass block which were damaged by Hurricane Katrina and ... workers from Cameron Parish and the coast of Texas. ...

Bush to Tour Sites in Texas, Louisiana Hit by Hurricane Rita Sep 27, 2005
Bloomberg ...hasn't fully recovered from last month's Hurricane Katrina ... Six deaths in Texas were blamed on Rita and ... Pasadena Refining and eight other plants on the waterways ...

Weary workers get hand Oct 1, 2005
Pasadena Citizen, ...power to Beaumont and other areas of East Texas. ... to escape the devastation caused by Hurricane Rita, we ... who were hit the hardest," said Pasadena Mayor John ...

United States Mobilizes in Response to Hurricane Rita Sep 24, 2005
US Dept of State (press release), ...out in the hurricane zone, however, including a Houston apartment complex, buildings in Galveston's historic district, and a shopping mall in Pasadena, Texas. ...

Construction jobs flourish in storm-damaged areas Sep 29, 2005
SHRM Magazine, Gould just arrived in Kenner from Pasadena, Texas, with two ... at least six friends from Texas to start ... contracts awarded to rebuild the hurricane-wrecked Gulf ...

Rita slams Texas, swamps La. Sep 25, 2005
Boston Globe, When they say there's a hurricane coming off ... in the storm's path, several parts of Texas also endured ... in Houston and a shopping area in nearby Pasadena, but no ...

'Major Disaster' Declared In Texas Sep 24, 2005
NBC5.com, ...a fire in the historic district of Galveston, Texas. ... built in 1905, just after the hurricane that destroyed ... In Pasadena, about 15 miles southeast of Houston, a ...

Hurricane news for specific towns in Texas Sep 24, 2005
Mongabay.com ...the devastating toll that Hurricane Katrina inflicted ... various locations in the Texas - Louisiana border ... Nueces County, Orange County, Pasadena, Pearland, Polk ...

Celanese Texas Gulf Coast Plants Resuming Production Following ... Sep 26, 2005
Business Wire (press release), NYSE:CE) today announced that the four Texas Gulf Coast ... suppliers and customers to assess the hurricane's effect on ... up are in Clear Lake, Pasadena, Bay City ...

Bayer Texas Facilities Report Status as Hurricane Rita Passes Sep 24, 2005
Business Wire (press release), ...of their operations Saturday as the eye of Hurricane Rita pushed past the Texas coastline. ... Bayer sites in the cities of Channelview, Pasadena and Spring ...

Hurricane Rita rushes ashore sparking flooding and fires... then ... Sep 25, 2005
Jamaica Observer, ...part by the devastating toll that Hurricane Katrina inflicted ... Texas Gov Rick Perry urged those who evacuated ... out before dawn at a shopping complex in Pasadena. ...

Shell, Motiva Back Online Sep 28, 2005
Layover.com, Enterprises LLC, Houston TX, are reporting that both the North Houston and Pasadena Texas distribution terminals are fully operational after hurricane Rita. ...

Hurricane Rita sparks fires and floods along coast Sep 24, 2005
Navhind Times, More than 6,75,000 residents of Texas had no ... Mr George Bush watched the raging Hurricane Rita from a ... broke out before dawn at a shopping complex in Pasadena. ...

Texas oil refiners dodge Rita's wrath Sep 25, 2005
eTaiwan News, The Pasadena terminal was restarted at 7 pm local ... The potential impact from Hurricane Rita prompted the ... largest US oil company, said its Texas City refinery ...

Refineries mostly escape hurricane's wrath Sep 25, 2005
Taipei Times, Chuck Dunlap, who rode out the storm with 50 others at Pasadena Refining Systems, just outside Houston ... As the hurricane approached Texas on Friday ...

Mexicans Living on Texas Gulf Hurry Home Sep 22, 2005
ABC News ...rushing home Thursday to avoid Hurricane Rita, while ... Laredo, across from Laredo, Texas, Mexican families ... Island, Corpus Christi and Pasadena, Texas, waited in ...

Oil prices ease as Hurricane Rita approaches Sep 23, 2005
Mail & Guardian Online, Hurricane Katrina was a category-four storm when it slammed ashore ... landfall at Galveston late on Friday, affecting Houston, Texas City, Pasadena and Port ...

A Weakened But Deadly Rita Slams Into Gulf Coast Sep 24, 2005
The Moderate Voice ...in flames, Mike Baird of the Pasadena Police Department ... Max Mayfield, director of the hurricane center. ... Ridder report notes: FORT WORTH, Texas — For hundreds ...

Georgia Gulf Declares ~Force Majeure~ on caustic soda and vinyl ... Sep 29, 2005
Polymerupdate.com (subscription), Hurricane Rita. The maker says that it~s units will remain closed until natural gas, feedstock and utilities are restored. The Company~s Pasadena, Texas cumene ...

Hundreds of schools closing Sep 22, 2005
Houston Chronicle, Hundreds of Texas schools that opened their doors ... families time to evacuate as Hurricane Rita approaches ... of Houston, including Galveston and Pasadena, opted to ...

Molestation charges made against La. evacuee Sep 27, 2005
Brownsville Herald, ...family members fled Louisiana to Pasadena, near Houston ... Last week, Hurricane Rita forced the family to ... Texas Department of Public Safety spokesman Tom Vinger ...

Rita's Punch Strains Gulf Churches Sep 26, 2005
ChristianityToday.com, ...few weeks later, with Hurricane Rita steering toward the Texas coast, the Coles found themselves in need of a Good Samaritan. Low-lying Pasadena, Texas, was at ...

Rita's Threat Grows, Evacuations Ordered Sep 21, 2005
Smartmoney.com (subscription) ...sees the storm making landfall sometime early Saturday on the Texas coast between ... Rita should maintain major hurricane status until ... XOM), Pasadena Refining and ...

MEMC's Texas facility operating after Rita Sep 26, 2005
St. Louis Business Journal, MEMC Electronic Materials said it resumed business at its facility in Pasadena, Texas, Sunday after Hurricane Rita passed through the Gulf Coast. ...

Oil, Gasoline Fall After Hurricane Rita Spares Refineries Sep 26, 2005
Bloomberg Rita became a Category 5 hurricane on the ... The pipeline resumed operations from Texas to Tulsa ... pipelines originating in Houston and Pasadena, Texas, and would ...

Oil, Gasoline Falls After Hurricane Rita Spares Refineries Sep 26, 2005
Bloomberg Rita became a Category 5 hurricane on the ... refiner, said its Houston and Texas City refineries ... pipelines originating in Houston and Pasadena, Texas and would be ...

TAKE-A-LOOK-Hurricane Rita Sep 24, 2005
Reuters ...done by Rita [nN24669446] > Entergy Texas head says no ... refinery -power co [nN24558283] > Pasadena 100,000 bpd ... nN23461219] For the National Hurricane Centre Web ...

Fires in Galveston, Houston and Pasadena Sep 24, 2005
Lex 18, Fires have been reported around the Houston area and in Galveston, Texas overnight, as Hurricane Rita made landfall nearly 100 miles away. In Pasadena, east of ...

Celanese Initiates Controlled Shutdown of Texas Gulf Coast Plants ... Sep 22, 2005
Polymerupdate.com (subscription), Celanese Corporation announced that it has closed its plants in Clear Lake, Pasadena, Bay City and Bishop, Texas, in preparation for Hurricane Rita. ...

MEMC Provides Status Update Post Hurricane Rita Sep 26, 2005
Yahoo! News (press release) ...(NYSE: WFR - News) today provided an update on the status of its facility in Pasadena, Texas, which was threatened by Hurricane Rita. ...

MEMC’s polysilicon plant back in biz after Hurricane Rita Sep 26, 2005
Fabtech MEMC Electronic Materials, Pasadena, Texas polysilicon facility resumed business on Sunday, after closing due to the threat from Hurricane Rita. ...

Houston's Methodist Hospital Prepares to Ride Out Hurricane Sep 22, 2005
Bloomberg ...at Bayshore Medical Center in Pasadena, Texas, said she ... Health Services, part of the Texas state government in ... that it oversees in the hurricane-threatened area ...

Bus carrying evacuees catches fire Sep 23, 2005
Kentucky.com, ...said more screeners were flown in from elsewhere in Texas. ... Hurricane-force winds higher than 74 mph roared 60 ... In Pasadena, southeast of Houston and close to ...

Texas' exodus crawls as Rita approaches Sep 22, 2005
Palm Beach Post, Texas officials, mindful of the horror stories from Hurricane Katrina's lashing of ... of patients from the Pine Tree Assisted Living Facility in Pasadena. ...

US refineries escape major storm damage Sep 25, 2005
International Herald Tribune, Chuck Dunlap, who rode out the storm at Pasadena Refining Systems, just outside Houston, said that at ... As the hurricane approached Texas on Friday ...

Clean up efforts continue in Louisiana and Texas Sep 25, 2005
Monterey County Herald, ...to the ghastly toll of Hurricane Katrina, only ... to the coast in Port Arthur, Texas, police Officer ... restarting its origin points in Houston and Pasadena, Texas. ...

Hurricane puts hit on schedules Sep 20, 2005
Houston Chronicle, ...such as Galveston, Clear Creek, Pasadena, Texas City and ... to be on everybody's mind is football," Texas City coach ... We don't know how bad this hurricane is going ...

Waning Rita ravages Texas coast Sep 24, 2005
Unison.ie (subscription), ...broke out before dawn at a shopping complex in Pasadena. ... Hurricane Rita caused an estimated $2.5bn to $5bn in insured losses in eastern Texas and western ...

Rita less disastrous than feared; evacuees told to stay put Sep 24, 2005
Detroit Free Press, ...broke out before dawn at a shopping complex in Pasadena. ... government was slow to respond to Hurricane Katrina, visited the Texas emergency operations ...

Oil extends fall in Asian trading but Hurricane Rita keeping ... Sep 22, 2005
Forbes ...an extremely dangerous hurricane,' it said. The storm was on track to make landfall by Friday at Galveston, battering Houston, Texas City, Pasadena and Port ...

Rita hits Texas; 11 million residents may be affected Sep 24, 2005
El Paso Times, They had left their Pasadena home at 6:30 am and were able to drive about ... "We are fully prepared now for Hurricane Rita to strike the Texas coast," Colley ...

Celanese Initiates Controlled Shutdown of Texas Gulf Coast Plants ... Sep 22, 2005
Business Wire (press release), 2005--Celanese Corporation today announced that it has closed its plants in Clear Lake, Pasadena, Bay City and Bishop, Texas in preparation for Hurricane Rita. ...

Friends in weather fair or foul Sep 29, 2005
Richmond Times Dispatch, Helping Friends took a 28-hour bus trip to Pasadena, Texas, to assist a ... Army distribution center providing relief items to victims of Hurricane Katrina, said ...

Out of Gas, and Patience, on Texas Highways Sep 23, 2005
New York Times, ..."I think the hurricane will come ... in Galveston County -- a likely flood area -- to Waco in Central Texas. ... They left Pasadena at 4 am, and stopped 17 hours later ...

US oil industry rushes to assess Rita's damage Sep 25, 2005
Reuters South Africa, Chuck Dunlap, a spokesman for Pasadena Refining LLC ... about 1.139 million customers in Texas, Louisiana and ... the refining industry than Hurricane Katrina, which ...

Former area resident hunkers down for storm in Texas Sep 24, 2005
Asbury Park Press, Rossi said by telephone Friday from his home in Pasadena, Texas, 25 miles ... And with news channels relaying stories of those fleeing the hurricane running out of ...

TAKE-A-LOOK-Hurricane Rita Sep 24, 2005
Reuters ...the latest news about the hurricane and its ... well prepared for Rita [nN24380987] > Texas plans staggered ... restarts after Rita [nN24425256] > Pasadena 100,000 bpd ...

Councilors count city's blessings Sep 29, 2005
Pasadena Citizen, With a projected path putting the hurricane in line to hit Pasadena, a mandatory evacuation order led to ... "Folks in East Texas and Western Louisiana were ...

TAKE-A-LOOK-Hurricane Rita Sep 24, 2005
Reuters ...read the latest news about the hurricane and its ... with floods again [nN24338933] > Texas plans staggered ... restarts after Rita [nN24425256] > Pasadena 100,000 bpd ...

麗塔已減弱為一級颶風料為三個州帶來暴雨 Sep 24, 2005
新城電�, ...broke out before dawn at a shopping complex in Pasadena. ... government was slow to respond to Hurricane Katrina three ... to visit his home state of Texas on Saturday ...

Hurricane Rita produces a new crop of storm refugees Sep 23, 2005
Denton Record Chronicle (subscription), ...chartered planes to fly them to West Texas, said local ... isn't, I'll thank God," said Daniel Castillo of Pasadena. ... 75 years and this is the first hurricane that I ...

Now is time to prepare for a hurricane Sep 21, 2005
Pasadena Citizen, ...be opening up schools before a hurricane strikes the ... She said during recent years, Pasadena has escaped ... weather conditions get to severe, Texas Department of ...

HCA Hospitals in Houston and Corpus Christi Prepare for Hurricane ... Sep 21, 2005
PR Newswire (press release), Bayshore Medical Center in Pasadena (373 beds) is evacuating its ... Medical Center, Houston - Woman's Hospital of Texas, Houston "Hurricane Rita is a ...

Texas Communities Assess The Damage As Rita Moves Inland Sep 24, 2005
KWTX, Pentagon is sending five mortuary teams into Texas, but it ... built in 1905 after the 1900 hurricane that destroyed ... In Pasadena, fire broke out before dawn at a ...

Weakened Rita socks Gulf Coast Sep 25, 2005
The State, Louisiana border as a Category 3 hurricane with top ... as it moved slowly through east Texas toward Shreveport ... out before dawn at a shopping complex in Pasadena. ...

Hurricane Rita Traffic Update Sep 26, 2005
WOAI, The expansion for Day 2 also includes residents of Pasadena, Baytown, League City, Texas City, Galveston Island, and the Bolivar Peninsula. ...

Hundreds of Mexicans flee the Texas Gulf Coast for home Sep 22, 2005
KLTV, Hundreds of Mexicans living in the Texas Gulf Coast are rushing home today to avoid Hurricane Rita ... South Padre Island, Corpus Christi and Pasadena wait in ...

Evacuations got masses to safety but tangled traffic Sep 25, 2005
USA Today Jimenez left the Houston suburb of Pasadena at 4 ... happens — it may not be a hurricane, it may ... from Galveston; Copeland from Port Arthur, Texas; Cauchon from ...

TAKE-A-LOOK-Hurricane Rita Sep 24, 2005
Reuters ...oil-rich swamplands of the Texas-Louisiana border ... the latest news about the hurricane and its ... refinery restarts after Rita [nN24425256] > Pasadena 100,000 bpd ...

Fear meets frustration as Texans attempt to flee from Rita Sep 22, 2005
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, ...store in Pasadena, Texas, before evacuating the Houston area on Thursday. About 1.5 million people had been told to evacuate as Hurricane Rita neared. ...

Many aren't taking chances after seeing Katrina's wrath Sep 22, 2005
Houston Chronicle, ...the Gulf Freeway in Dickinson, rode out Hurricane Alicia in ... It was a scene played out across Southeast Texas. At a Home Depot in Pasadena, people in more than ...





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    Tampa Bay could be hit by 25-foot storm surge in Category 4 hurricane September 16, 2005
    A Category 4 hurricane could cause a storm surge of as much as 25 feet in Tampa Bay, according to a University of Central Florida researcher who is looking at the risks Florida cities face from tidal surges and flooding.

    Number of Category 4 and 5 hurricanes has nearly doubled over past 35 years September 16, 2005
    The number of Category 4 and 5 hurricanes worldwide has nearly doubled over the past 35 years, even though the total number of hurricanes has dropped since the 1990s, according to a study by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). The shift occurred as global sea surface temperatures have increased over the same period. The research appears in the September 16 issue of Science.

    Hurricane Katrina to cost Louisiana fisheries $1.1 billion September 13, 2005
    The Louisiana Department and Wildlife and Fisheries' preliminary estimates indicate a potential $1.1 billion loss in retail fisheries revenue over the next year and an additional $150 million loss in oyster revenue in the second year due to Hurricane Katrina damage.

    Hurricane could hit San Diego September 8, 2005
    San Diego has been hit by hurricanes in the past and may be affected by such storms in the future according to data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). While a hurricane in San Diego would likely produce significantly less damage that Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, it could still exact a high cost to Southern California especially if the region was caught off guard.

    Personal account of hurricane destruction along Mississippi Gulf Coast September 6, 2005
    The following is an eyewitness account of hurricane destruction along the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Included is information on plans to provide pro bono services from out of state lawyers to the storm victims, many of whom will need assistance in dealing with insurance companies, relief bureaucracies, and possibly personal or small business bankruptcies in the aftermath of the storm.

    New Orleans Aquarium, Zoo update Surviving animals from the New Orleans will find new homes according to aquarium spokeswoman Melissa Lee. Despite escaping Hurricane Katrina with little physical damage, the Aquarium of the Americas in New Orleans suffered significant loss of animal life when the facility's emergency generator failed and made conditions unlivable for most its animals.

    Hurricanes getting stronger due to global warming says study August 29, 2005
    Late last month an atmospheric scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology released a study in Nature that found hurricanes have grown significantly more powerful and destructive over the past three decades. Kerry Emanuel, the author of the study, warns that since hurricanes depend on warm water to form and build, global climate change might increase the effect of hurricanes still further in coming years.

    Environmental problems worsened Hurricane Katrina's impact August 31, 2005
    The loss of coastal marshlands that buffer New Orleans from flooding and storm surges may have worsened the impact of Hurricane Katrina. In the past, the region's wetlands have served as a natural buffer that slows hurricanes down as they come in from the Gulf of Mexico and helps protect New Orleans from storms. But all this has changed.

    Aerial photos of Hurricane Katrina destruction: NOAA posted online more than 1450 aerial images of the U.S. Gulf Coast areas that were decimated by Hurricane Katrina.




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