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BOND REPORT: Treasurys Jump After Weak Sentiment, Housing Data 27 Sep 2005
Business Online, ...interest-rate tightening campaign even after a double punch from Hurricane Katrina and ... bond market came under pressure early in the day after Kansas City Fed ...

New home sales fall sharply in August 27 Sep 2005
Kansas.com, ...prices including gasoline that topped $3 per gallon right after Hurricane Katrina shut ... are finally starting to have an impact on the booming housing market. ...

Hurricane Pets 27 Sep 2005
WCIV, A Hurricane Katrina Evacuee had to flee his Mississippi home but the shelters would not ... Local, Kansas City, residents have tried to help the Wyricks get ...

FEMA sends $625 million to Katrina victims 27 Sep 2005
Kansas City Star, ...distributed nearly $625 million in temporary housing assistance to people left homeless by Hurricane Katrina, winning early praise from housing advocates but ...

Double dose of disaster, despair 27 Sep 2005
Kansas City Star, ...else to go, and they refused to spend another night in another hurricane shelter ... ordered it closed, and guests were told to board buses for shelters in Tennessee ...

Environmental experts contemplate New Orleans' rebirth 27 Sep 2005
Kansas City Star, ...leaking tanks, to the most complex of all: restoring housing for hundreds ... of the 683 drinking-water facilities in Louisiana affected by Hurricane Katrina were ...

Ex-FEMA Chief Goes Before House Panel Today 27 Sep 2005
Kansas City Channel.com, WASHINGTON -- The man who headed FEMA during Hurricane Katrina will be quizzed today ... he wasn't aware the New Orleans Convention Center was housing thousands of ...

Stocks rally, storm damage less than feared 27 Sep 2005
Kansas.com, ...economists' predictions that the housing boom was finally starting to slow. Crude oil rose slightly after opening lower on news that Hurricane Rita narrowly ...

Hamelund recounts Gulf Coast experience 27 Sep 2005
El Dorado Times, ...relief efforts in the wake of the Hurricane Katrina Gulf ... were five Salvation Army volunteers from the Kansas City area. ... A lot of housing was going on in Baton ...

Crude prices rise as markets assess Rita 27 Sep 2005
Kansas City Star, ...a barrel Monday while the oil industry assessed damage from Hurricane Rita and ... of the economy, showing up in continued robust demand for housing, also helped ...

THE WEEK AHEAD IN BUSINESS 27 Sep 2005
Kansas City Star, ...caused by Katrina and the post-hurricane spike in ... in most areas continue to support the housing market. ... The Chamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City Missouri ...

Greenspan: Most homeowners in good shape 27 Sep 2005
Kansas City Star, Because Hurricane Katrina hit in late August, its full brunt was not completely ... Although his speech was devoted almost totally to the housing market, Greenspan ...

Hawkish Fedspeak energizes USD 27 Sep 2005
ForexTV.com, ...disruptive.� Greenspan characterized the US housing market as ... would be “an open question.� Kansas City Fed ... of the recent devastation of hurricane Katrina ...

Brief Cases 27 Sep 2005
Standard-Examiner (subscription), ...had been forecasting a slight decline, believing that the housing market was ... on Monday and said sales were slowed by Hurricane Katrina and ... KANSAS CITY, Kan. ...

Australian Dollar at 4-Week Low as Interest-Rate Premium Erodes 27 Sep 2005
Bloomberg Australia's currency fell after Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City President Thomas Hoenig ... who said speculative buying may be driving up housing prices and ...

Fed Speeches Highlight Busy Week Sep 25, 2005
Forex Market, Given the fact that Hurricane Rita was not as bad as ... for Chicago Fed President Moskow (Monday), Kansas City Fed ... First up are housing industry figures with both ...

Kansas ready to shelter evacuees Sep 24, 2005
Kansas.com, Kansas already has 2,945 people from Hurricane Katrina who have applied for federal assistance. No evacuees are in shelters, opting to stay with friends or ...

Kansas awaits word on hurricane evacuees Sep 23, 2005
Kansas.com, Joy Moser, spokeswoman for the Kansas Division of Emergency ... the state had identified space in shelters for up ... fled their homes because of Hurricane Katrina and ...

Houston comes back to life after hurricane Sep 25, 2005
Kansas.com, ...for now a repeat of the gridlock that plagued the evacuation before Hurricane Rita ... the main freeways out of town, and buses had to deliver evacuees to shelters. ...

Houston residents return after Rita exodus Sep 26, 2005
Kansas.com, ...fourth-largest city flickered back to life after Hurricane Rita: Airports bustled ... Officials dispatched buses to bring back thousands of evacuees from shelters. ...

FEMA budget so complex it defies consensus Sep 25, 2005
Kansas.com, Davis, a FEMA emergency housing manager in the late 1970s, contends FEMA's ... $5.5 billion on disaster aid, including $4.8 billion for hurricane assistance, in ...

Rita, no Katrina, may boost US stocks Sep 25, 2005
Kansas City Star, NEW YORK - To say Hurricane Rita wasn't "that bad" obviously minimizes the loss of ... With housing at a premium, the stock has performed well over the past year ...

41 evacuees spent days on bus before being delivered to shelter Sep 25, 2005
Kansas City Star, ...cities of Beaumont and Port Arthur, which lay in the path of Hurricane Rita. ... supposed to shuttle them to other vehicles that were headed for shelters away from ...

Kansas offers refuge Sep 23, 2005
Topeka Capital Journal (subscription), Kansas already has 2,945 people from Hurricane Katrina who have applied for federal assistance. No evacuees are in shelters, opting to stay with friends, family ...

Salvation Army Expands Relief Efforts In Anticipation Of Hurricane ... Sep 23, 2005
PR Newswire (press release), ...shelters and from canteens dispatched to the hardest hit locations. Meanwhile, The Salvation Army of Kansas City is preparing to assist with Hurricane Rita ...

Kansas Ready for Evacuees Sep 23, 2005
WIBW, ...space for nearly 2,200 potential evacuees from Hurricane Rita ... that so far no evacuees have arrived in Kansas. ... state hears buses are rolling, no shelters will be ...

Contributors to hurricane survivors deserve thanks Sep 24, 2005
Atchison Daily Globe, The American Red Cross, North East Kansas Community Action Program, The Salvation Army, The Housing Authority, The Atchison Area United Way, Atchison Social ...

Today's Game Plan Sep 26, 2005
Cleveland Plain Dealer, That housing quirk has been gone for more than 20 ... major sporting event in Louisiana since Hurricane Katrina. ... to the immortality of NFL Films, Kansas City is ...

Man accused of making false claim for hurricane relief Sep 23, 2005
Kansas City Star, Hanaway said police encountered Jackson on Sept. 15. He told officers he was a survivor of the hurricane and asked for help finding temporary housing. ...

Rita claims first victims; rains cause new flooding in New Orleans Sep 24, 2005
Charlotte Observer, ...school buildings and other makeshift shelters, some pitched ... oil and natural gas rigs faced hurricane-force winds ... Port Arthur, Klepper from The Kansas City Star ...

CHA leaders lash out at board critics Sep 24, 2005
Columbia Daily Tribune, ...task force is planning a trip to a renovated Kansas City complex ... The resolution says public housing applicants who are victims of Hurricane Katrina will be ...

Hurricane Evacuees Apply For Public Housing Sep 21, 2005
Kansas City Channel.com, KANSAS CITY, Mo. ... quickly to help find places to live for hurricane evacuees, KMBC's ... that some evacuees are applying for Section 8 public housing, which assists ...

Kansas Looking For Potential Shelters Sep 22, 2005
WIBW, In Kansas, officials are identifying possible shelters with an ... Nearly two-thousand families displaced by Hurricane Katrina already are staying in ...

Residents take refuge as Rita blasts Lafayette, La. Sep 24, 2005
Kansas City Star, The gusts of wind sounded severe and the worst of Hurricane Rita's fury ... residents gathered around televisions and radios, bundled up in shelters, took refuge ...

Katrina shook Americans’ way of thinking, poll finds Sep 25, 2005
Kansas City Star, Rita, a new Associated Press-Ipsos poll shows that Hurricane Katrina prompted ... year, 56 percent were concerned about living conditions for evacuees in shelters. ...

In New Orleans, land elevation was a matter of race, experts say Sep 24, 2005
Kansas City Star, ...storm hit, New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin had said the hurricane was not ... how it will resurrect the city, rethink New Orleans' inequities in housing and ensure ...

Plans in place for Rita, hotels booked Sep 23, 2005
Gainesville Daily Register, Microtel in Thackerville, Okla., said she was refering people to Kansas City ... Instead, they are directing Hurricane Rita evacuees to shelters in Grayson ...

Health emergency declared for Texas, La. Sep 23, 2005
Kansas.com, ...plea for help for local shelters caring for ... flooded, and largely abandoned, from Hurricane Katrina, he said ... preparation for Rita, Chertoff and Housing and Urban ...

Kansas identifies shelter for up to 2,150 hurricane evacuees Sep 22, 2005
Kansas.com, ...officials have identified space in shelters for up to ... the Texas and Louisiana coasts before Hurricane Rita makes ... Kansas Emergency Management, a division of the ...

Rita bears down on Texas-Louisiana border Sep 23, 2005
Investor's Business Daily (subscription) ...rain on Arkansas, Oklahoma and Kansas through the ... hurricane was in 1983, when Hurricane Alicia -- a ... customers are the downtown skyscrapers housing the region's ...

Rita assaults Gulf Coast Sep 23, 2005
San Jose Mercury News, ...school buildings and other makeshift shelters, some pitched ... to help the city recover from a second hurricane. ... Port Arthur, Klepper from the Kansas City Star ...

Local Helps Katrina Victims Sep 23, 2005
Yankton Daily Press, ...the Kansas City paramedic found Hurricane Katrina victims ... 3, the Kansas City paramedics were paged out ... sustained tremendous damage after housing refugees for ...

Feds promise to deliver fuel to evacuees Sep 23, 2005
Kansas.com, ...said a series of measures would be announced Friday to speed delivery of federally supported transitional housing for victims of Hurricane Katrina, which hit ...

Bush administration to expedite rent subsidies to evacuees Sep 23, 2005
Kansas City Star, ...to curb the homelessness created by Hurricane Katrina, the ... and families move from temporary shelters to more stable, safe and sufficient housing," he said ...

Health emergency declared for Texas, La. Sep 23, 2005
Kansas City Star, Victims of Hurricane Katrina, which ravaged the Gulf Coast last month, were promised federal housing assistance including three months rental payments for ...

New Orleans churches ask, SHOULD WE REOPEN? Sep 24, 2005
Kansas.com, ...of churches tried to get their services going again -- before Hurricane Rita loomed ... it flooded and the rest of the space is devoted to housing volunteers who ...

Houston tries to get drivers stuck on freeways into shelters Sep 23, 2005
Kansas City Star, Still, the city had all the hallmarks of one about to be struck by a hurricane. ... The mayor said that those unable to refuel would be taken to shelters. ...

Doors open again for hurricane evacuees Sep 22, 2005
Kansas.com, Kansas is sending more help to Gulf Coast areas ... eye on the gathering threat posed by Hurricane Rita. ... receive Katrina evacuees forced to leave shelters in Texas ...

Survivors move into next phase finding housing Sep 22, 2005
Sun-News of the Northland, Kay Barnes has called the City of Kansas City's housing partners to develop a plan for providing transitional housing for victims of the hurricane all along ...

Feds mobilize massive Rita relief effort Sep 24, 2005
Kansas City Star, New Orleans bore the brunt of Hurricane Katrina nearly four weeks ago ... Dan Lloyd told Bush there were still some 61,000 people in shelters - down from a high of ...

Special people needed to fill caretaker jobs Sep 24, 2005
Lawrence Journal World, Pay: High $30K, insurance, free housing, use of a car and ... also attended a job fair in Kansas City last week designed to assist displaced hurricane victims ...

Rita pushes blogs, rich maps to forefront Sep 23, 2005
Kansas.com, ...set up for Hurricane Katrina also have been adapted for Rita. Among them: MoveOn.org's Web site for connecting refugees with those who have housing to spare.

Kansas identifies more possible shelter sites Sep 22, 2005
Kansas.com, Kansas could shelter victims of Hurricane Katrina forced to leave shelters in Texas and other Gulf states because of Rita, an official said Wednesday. ...

Federal and State Wildland Fire Experts Jointly Respond to ... Sep 23, 2005
Kansas City infoZine, While USDA and the DOI prepare for Hurricane Rita, Katrina response efforts ... Evacuation Shelter Assistance: IMTs are managing evacuation shelters in San Antonio ...

USDA Prepares for Hurricane Rita Sep 22, 2005
Kansas City infoZine, ...to provide food and water, emergency housing and other ... that is ready to deploy once Hurricane Rita makes ... USDA commodities were provided to shelters in the ...

COMMUNITIES OF FAITH Sep 24, 2005
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (subscription), The church is providing temporary housing and essentials to ... have been helping survivors of Hurricane Katrina and ... joining with Harvest Church of Kansas City, Mo ...

Help again heads south Sep 24, 2005
Blue Springs Examiner, ...their way from the Kansas City area to help with Hurricane Rita. The three-person teams will be helping serve 560,000 hot meals a day at registered shelters. ...

Christmas comes early for families displaced by Hurricane Katrina Sep 22, 2005
Liberty Sun News, She learned that some smaller shelters would be consolidated and some families she helped ... 7, and Tasia, 14 months rode a passenger bus to Kansas City and ...

For hospital, storm offered a learning experience Sep 23, 2005
Kansas City Star, Some have lived at the hospital since the hurricane because they have no other ... of needs in natural disasters, including on-site temporary housing for displaced ...

Adrift, evacuees keep moving Sep 23, 2005
Kansas City Star, ...barracks are ready for people who may be chased from the gulf states by Hurricane Rita ... The Arkansas camp had a job fair Thursday and had information on housing. ...

Many Gulf Coast Evacuees Headed To Kansas Sep 22, 2005
KAKE, As Hurricane Rita churns toward Texas, people are getting out of its path and ... The Red Cross has put its volunteers and shelters on standby to take evacuees ...

Perspectives on Iraq War and Protests Sep 24, 2005
Kansas City infoZine, ...planned in Washington, DC, and Kansas City, Mo ... Gulf Coast before and after Hurricane Katrina presents us ... health care, and quality jobs, housing, and educational ...

Weathering the storm together Sep 24, 2005
Lawrence Journal World, When city officials considered housing evacuees from Hurricane ... we experienced here with Hurricane Katrina was ... the diversity brought by Kansas University, has a ...

Kroger's Hurricane Relief Efforts Will Exceed $6 Million Sep 22, 2005
Yahoo! News (press release) ...been actively involved in assisting Hurricane Katrina's victims. ... a 10-day relief drive in Kansas, nearly 40 ... Company associates volunteered at shelters and food ...

Rita bearing in on Texas Sep 21, 2005
Austin American-Statesman (subscription), ...full, city officials will direct evacuees to makeshift shelters at schools ... We're flying to Kansas City ... evacuated to Houston in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina ...

Bill sets punishment for hurricane relief fraud Sep 19, 2005
Kansas.com, ...in Texas shelters, three weeks after Katrina made landfall. Cornyn also is working to make sure that the state is properly reimbursed for Hurricane Katrina ...

Counseling offered to Katrina volunteers Sep 23, 2005
Pittsburg Morning Sun, ...recruitment for volunteers to help with Hurricane Rita ... executive director for the Pioneer Kansas Chapter ... The volunteers are sleeping in the shelters, Largent said ...

Houston shelters evict Katrina evacuees as Rita nears Sep 20, 2005
Kansas City Star, ...people, along with child care, health care, and help finding permanent housing and employment. The shelters - known together as the Hurricane Katrina Houston ...

Big and Easy Iraqi-Style Contracts Flood New Orleans Sep 21, 2005
CorpWatch.org, ...contracts in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, in ... assess the damage, provide emergency shelters and fix ... HNTB, an engineering company in Kansas City, Missouri ...

New Orleans braces for Rita, while putting recovery efforts on ... Sep 20, 2005
San Luis Obispo Tribune, 3,000 Katrina evacuees are living in shelters that could ... Everyone is pretty tired from the first hurricane. ... Mercury News, Malcolm Garcia of The Kansas City Star ...

Hurricane affects Kings' season opener Sep 22, 2005
Sacramento Bee, ...businesses and families uprooted by Hurricane Katrina, the ... practice facility, office space and housing for the ... Las Vegas, Nashville, Tenn., and Kansas City, Mo ...

Rita gathers power in gulf Sep 21, 2005
Kansas City Star, ...tired and angry evacuees of Hurricane Katrina — many ... bus tickets to Arkansas, where more shelters had been ... Brown Convention Center, which was housing 147 men ...

Mexican states prepare for hurricane Sep 21, 2005
Kansas.com, ...the Gulf of Mexico set up shelters, reviewed evacuation plans and stocked food distribution centers Wednesday as a precaution in case Hurricane Rita should ...

Military Prepares Response to Hurricane Rita Sep 23, 2005
Kansas City infoZine, We'll provide housing, food and medical assistance, if required.". ... It was the reception point for thousands of Hurricane Katrina evacuees. ...

Now a hurricane, Rita continues to intensify Sep 20, 2005
Kansas.com, Said Knabb, the hurricane forecaster: ``We are expecting Rita to hurl some very ... About 800 people are currently in the four storm shelters open throughout the ...

Regional bank will provide $15 million for evacuee housing Sep 21, 2005
Kansas City Star, CINCINNATI - The Federal Home Loan Bank of Cincinnati said Wednesday it will provide $15 million to help meet housing needs of Hurricane Katrina evacuees in ...

Big Easy district faces uncertain future Sep 22, 2005
Kansas.com, ...riddled bodies of several apparent murder victims during their post-hurricane patrols. ... The prospect of a new stock of housing, along with new businesses and ...

Commentary by Mark Creech Sep 23, 2005
Agape Press, ...leaders are also being encouraged to go with hurricane victims to shelters to reach ... Republican Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas says what is happening ...

National Association for Latino Community Asset Builders to Hold ... Sep 22, 2005
HispanicBusiness.com, ...will host its third annual conference in Kansas City, Missouri ... the federal government in field of housing and community ... "On the heels of Hurricane Katrina, the ...

Evacuees get housing help Sep 15, 2005
Kansas City Star, By LYNN HORSLEY. About 70 Hurricane Katrina evacuees have already received vouchers for permanent housing assistance in Kansas City, officials said Wednesday. ...

Housing construction falls for 2nd month Sep 20, 2005
Kansas.com, Hurricane Katrina is expected to have a short-term negative effect on housing by disrupting construction and sales activity in the devastated areas along the ...

Housing construction falls for 2nd month Sep 20, 2005
Kansas.com, ...construction totaled 2.01 million units in August, the eighth month out of the past nine that housing has been above the 2-million mark. Hurricane Katrina had ...

‘Thanks, but no thanks,’ shelters told Sep 13, 2005
Kansas City Star, ...cleaned and in Kansas City, two shelters were ready. ... Kansas and the Kansas City area found out Sunday ... not be required — evacuees from Hurricane Katrina want ...

Kansas eliminated as refuge for Hurricane Katrina evacuees Sep 12, 2005
Topeka Capital Journal (subscription), ...in Topeka and Wichita, and although few people visited the shelters that were ... And Kansas continues to provide support to the states hit by Hurricane Katrina ...

Three accused of Katrina scam Sep 22, 2005
Springfield State Journal Register, ...to the Decatur Housing Authority for subsidized housing. ... Decatur alliance formed after the hurricane, said volunteer ... really have come from Kansas, Buenting said ...

RVs are not just for recreation now Sep 24, 2005
Dallas Morning News (subscription), The Federal Emergency Management Agency is buying hundreds of RVs to use as temporary housing for hurricane evacuees and as housing for crews doing the cleanup ...

On move again, Katrina evacuees flee Rita Sep 20, 2005
Kansas.com, Houston officials said moving the evacuees was necessary because the shelters might not hold up in a major hurricane. ... We were supposed to get housing here ...

Left for dead in disaster, pets find a haven here Sep 20, 2005
Kansas City Star, ...animals in cages or pet carriers during the trip to Kansas City. ... wanted to collect animals that had already been in shelters before the hurricane hit in ...

Fed action on interest rates kills market rally Sep 21, 2005
Kansas City Star, ...the first back-to-back declines in housing starts in ... Kansas City Southern was up 22 cents at $22.66. ... and Mississippi to help them recover from Hurricane Katrina ...

Florida escapes relatively unharmed as Rita aims for Gulf Coast Sep 20, 2005
Kansas City Star, More than 1,300 people were in shelters to the north in Miami-Dade and ... in Key West, shuttled dozens of residents to the Monroe County Hurricane Shelter at ...

More than 1 million evacuate as Rita bears down on Texas Sep 21, 2005
Kansas City Star, Shelters statewide had already begun moving Katrina evacuees to new homes out of ... and the risk of flooding and tornadoes exists after the hurricane has begun to ...

Evacuees' criminal backgrounds checked Sep 22, 2005
Washington Times, ...more than 100 other victims of Hurricane Katrina to ... homes, schools, houses of worship and housing projects. ... Kyle Smith, deputy director of the Kansas Bureau of ...

Hornets to call Oklahoma City, Baton Rouge 'home' Sep 21, 2005
ABC News ...$500,000 in relocation costs including housing, $300,000 for ... 29 hurricane, Mayor Mick Cornett offered the Ford ... Las Vegas, Nashville, Tenn., and Kansas City, Mo ...





American Red Cross -- (800) HELP-NOW
Feed the Children -- (800) 525-7575
Salvation Army -- (800) SAL-ARMY
Habitat for Humanity -- (800) HABITAT
The United Way -- (800) 272-4630
Humane Society of America -- (888) 259-5431
ASPCA -- (866) 275-3923
Oxfam America -- (800) 77OXFAM

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    Number of Category 4 and 5 hurricanes has nearly doubled over past 35 years September 16, 2005
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    Hurricane could hit San Diego September 8, 2005
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    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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