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  • Rebirth Drummer Tabb Gets CNN’s Attention

    Derrick Tabb, the Rebirth Brass Band drummer, is generating buzz for his “Roots of Music” mentoring program, which brings instruments, tutoring, and music education to New Orleans area kids, some still traumatized by the effects of Hurricane Katrina. Derrick is in the top ten nominated for the annual CNN Heroes Award. [...]
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    Posted: November 11, 2009, 5:02pm EST
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  • Ida Thought You Were Leaving

    As Hurricane Ida reminds us, where we choose to work, pray, play and to call home can be a perilous area, even in November. Along the awe-inspiring coast of the Gulf of Mexico, millions of Americans enjoy pleasures like coastal breezes, outstanding food, fishing, boating, and many other unique amenities [...]
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    Posted: November 09, 2009, 1:26pm EST
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  • Water Still Troubled

    Just a reminder that the Academy Award-nominated, Sundance Film Festival Best Documentary “Trouble The Water” was released on DVD a few weeks ago, on August 25. This remarkable piece of work is unlike any other Katrina-themed documentary ever made, and is raw, inspiring, surrealistic, and subtly sensational, but that’s only [...]
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    Posted: September 13, 2009, 9:42pm EDT
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  • Let’s Talk About It

    A couple of reporters for the non-profit website ProPublica.org looked into the Katrina-era incidents involving Dr Anna Pou at Memorial Medical Center and shootings by self-proclaimed vigilantes, and share their views in this video from Bloggingheads.tv: [...]
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    Posted: September 02, 2009, 5:19pm EDT
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  • Obama, Where Art Thou?

    Even though the President didn’t make it to the Gulf Coast for Katrina’s anniversary this year, we all know he deserves a vacation. And even during vacation, he sent a message. Watch it here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/32607347#32607347 [...]
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    Posted: August 30, 2009, 7:49pm EDT
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  • New Orleans’ HANO section 8 Program

    The Housing Authority of New Orleans (HANO) has announced they will open the Housing Choice Voucher Program (Section Eight) waiting list from September 6 to September 12, 2009. Applications can be picked up from the following branches of the New Orleans Public Library: • MAIN BRANCH NEW ORLEANS PUBLIC LIBRARY—219 LOYOLA AV • ALGIERS REGIONAL [...]
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    Posted: August 21, 2009, 12:19pm EDT
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  • SOS: Save Our Schools Shingdig

    Also on Saturday, May 16, 2009, from 6:00 PM – 9:30 PM the Charmaine Neville Band headlines the ‘Inaugural Shindig’ for grassroots nonprofit Save Our Schools NOLA. This “COMMUNITY CELEBRATION OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS” will be held at the Federal Reserve Bank Ballroom (The Security Center), 147 Carondelet Street in New [...]
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    Posted: May 12, 2009, 11:12pm EDT
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  • The Bottom Will Rise

    Saturday, May 16th, 2009 from 4 – 6 pm at the Community Book Center, 2523 Bayou Road in New Orleans, the International School for Bottom Up Organizing (ISBO), a nonprofit dedicated to training organizers around the globe, will be hosting a free lecture and book signing event for their new [...]
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    Posted: May 11, 2009, 10:56pm EDT
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  • Road Home elevation grant

    I qualified for an elevation grant from Road Home.  Likely it w can never happen due to subdivision restrictions, by-laws covenants.  Does anybody know if elevation grant money must be spent on elevating the dwelling or can it be spent on other house repairs suffered from the hurricane? [...]
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    Posted: February 10, 2009, 8:48pm EST
    by skemp

  • Stumbling Blocks

    These last few weeks have been painful. Besides a “computer arm” (a cousin of tennis elbow, I guess) not being able to write about all the Katrina-related news that’s been popping up, and watching our economy suffer has been painful, too. And then to watch our government try to bail [...]
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    Posted: October 16, 2008, 4:05pm EDT
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  • Galveston Greed

    Certain guests at Daniel Yeh’s hotel in Galveston after Hurricane Katrina had rooms paid for by FEMA, and Yeh probably thought he’d latched onto an easy way to guaranteed guests and payments. Problem was, the guests weren’t really guests or Katrina evacuees, or the rooms were unoccupied, or were even [...]
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    Posted: September 29, 2008, 7:49pm EDT
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  • Katrina and Rita survivors say “Thank You, Houston”

    Katrina and Rita survivors in Houston had planned a special day on September 13, But Houston had a problem: Hurricane Ike arrived. And it wasn’t to be a hurricane party, but a show of thanks. “Thank You, Houston” which had been planned for September 13 as a commemoration of the [...]
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    Posted: September 26, 2008, 12:57pm EDT
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  • FEMA says NO to trailers in Houston

    Government leaders from throughout the Gulf Coast were in D.C. today to ask Congress for money. FEMA said the agency would provide some temporary housing in Houston, but willl not allow its dreaded deathtrap trailers there, while New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin wants his city reimbursed for the recent hurricane [...]
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    Posted: September 23, 2008, 6:51pm EDT
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  • The Shelter From Hell

    If only I had talked to 63 year-old Lucille Canty and her family before they evacuated to Alexandria, Louisiana for Hurricane Gustav (see “Mass Evacuation Worked In Rehearsal, But..”). In 2005, thousands of us Katrina evacuees from New Orleans who were in Lake Charles became Rita evacuees, escorted non-stop by [...]
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    Posted: September 20, 2008, 11:23pm EDT
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  • Ike is an inconvenience for Houston, not devastation

    Houston has seen a good share of tropical storms and flooding, including at least 21 significant floods since the year 2000, and always bounces back. [...]
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    Posted: September 15, 2008, 9:37pm EDT
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  • Pray For Those Affected By Hurricane Ike

    Thoughts and prayers go out to all those affected by the devastation from Hurricane Ike. While Ike was no Katrina, the death, pain, hurt, suffering, and damages left behind from the Carribean Ocean to Louisiana and Texas is especially heartfelt in our Katrina-ravaged communities. May you be blessed with a [...]
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    Posted: September 13, 2008, 2:56pm EDT
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  • Oops! He Did It Again

    Did HE say that? In yet another slip of the tongue, New Orleans unbeloved Mayor Ray Nagin did it again. He was trying to emphasize that Houston and Texas Hurricane Ike evacuees are welcome in his city, just as they welcomed Katrina evacuees. He said they could ask for a [...]
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    Posted: September 13, 2008, 1:07pm EDT
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  • Ike Evacuees To Get “Special” In New Orleans

    In what could be another round of embarassing “Nagin-humor”, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin said Houston’s Hurricane Ike evacuees can get the “Ray Nagin Special” at hotels in New Orleans: New Orleans says Houston welcome during Ike. While Houston welcomed Katrina evacuees in 2005, even opening its Astrodome as a shelter, [...]
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    Posted: September 12, 2008, 3:40pm EDT
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  • Storm Tracking

    For anyone who wants to track Hurricane Ike or any other storm, I found this really cool interactive weather tracking site: www.stormpulse.com [...]
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    Posted: September 09, 2008, 9:05am EDT
    by SlimZack

  • Six New Orleans Homes Collapsed In One Day

    In a press conference today, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin said six houses had collapsed - five within one hour, and that 28 others are in danger of collapsing today, presumably as a result of Hurricane Gustav. He urged hurricane survivors returning home to avoid any buildings that appear dangerous. Hurricane [...]
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    Posted: September 05, 2008, 5:29pm EDT
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  • Gustav Evacuee Money Is No Good

    Many Louisiana Hurricane Gustav evacuees who ventured north this week to escape the wrath of whatever was coming were out of luck and in harm’s way, thanks to practices of hotel chains that, for whatever reasons, are putting them out on the street. They are finding their cash money is [...]
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    Posted: September 04, 2008, 11:27am EDT
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  • New Orleans Gustav Evacuee Registration System Crashes, Tourists Ordered To Leave Today

    In his latest news conference at 12:15 p.m. today, Mayor Ray Nagin said the city’s registration system for Hurricane Gustav evacuees crashed, Amtrak took 1600 people on its inaugural evacuee trip, and tourists were ordered to leave the city. He also said a mandatory evacuation order may come either at [...]
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    Posted: August 30, 2008, 12:44pm EDT
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  • Don’t Even THINK About It!

    Take the bus, go by car, but boating is not advised, as Katrina survivors on the Gulf Coast start leaving home for parts unknown. Here we go again. Paying the cost to live in America’s most unique city or the beautiful Gulf Coast. Whatever the case, most of us love where [...]
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    Posted: August 30, 2008, 11:18am EDT
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  • New Orleans Cancels Third Anniversary Katrina Events

    New Orleans has cancelled a Katrina third anniversary jazz funeral procession down Canal Street this morning and the candlelight vigil scheduled tonight, but there’s still going to be a burial ceremony at the new Katrina Memorial at the old Charity Hospital cemetery on Canal Blvd., starting at 8:40 a.m. and [...]
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    Posted: August 29, 2008, 5:55am EDT
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  • No FEMA News

    As the City of New Orleans, State of Louisiana, State of Mississippi, and the rest of the Gulf Coast - still already ravaged by Hurricane Katrina three years ago - prepares to defy yet another tempest of the sea called Gustav, FEMA has issued no public media statements regarding the [...]
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    Posted: August 28, 2008, 7:13pm EDT
    by 504man

  • Who? Not ME!

    I checked out the old Craiglist Katrina board, and I am pissed off. It seems some peeps still think ALL of us Katrina people got these big checks for $5000 or 2000 or whatever. Not true! And that’s jus ONE of the stupid things people think about us. Seems like [...]
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    Posted: August 25, 2008, 9:13pm EDT
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  • Katrina Volunteer Has Mysterious Illness

    A Syracuse, New York man, who two years ago reportedly left home as a healthy young man returned home after three months with second and third degree sunburn, and later began suffering seizures. According to a CBS-WTVH (Syracuse) news report, 20 year-old Robert Dings is an invalid in a nursing [...]
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    Posted: August 18, 2008, 4:17pm EDT
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  • Right Now

    WHEW!…..I’ve missed you! And I’m missing you….RIGHT NOW! The last two months have been rough for this website. It all started when somebody with too much time on their hands - more than I have, anyway - sat down and wrote what’s called malicious code into the internet, looking for vulnerabilities [...]
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    Posted: August 15, 2008, 2:21pm EDT
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  • The Doctor Is Pissed

    The New Orleans Ambassador of “musicnology” - Dr. John - is pissed off, and for good reason. One of the many reasons Katrina Connection was started was us being pissed off at internet hustlers for the same reason. It seems ever since the storm that tore our lives apart, people have been [...]
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  • The Doctor Is Pissed

    The New Orleans Ambassador of “musicnology” - Dr. John - is pissed off, and for good reason. One of the many reasons Katrina Connection was started was us being pissed off at internet hustlers for the same reason. It seems ever since the storm that tore our lives apart, people have been [...]
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    Posted: August 04, 2008, 10:16am EDT
    by 504man

  • CNN Investigation Continues

    The folks at CNN who uncovered $85 million in unused Hurricane Katrina goods a few weeks ago have found yet another bone for Hurricane Katrina survivors to pick at. The CNN investigation found that Mississippi, the state hardest-hit by Katrina’s wind and storm surge, was one of 16 states that [...]
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    Fetched: July 11, 2008, 8:28pm EDT

  • CNN Investigation Continues

    The folks at CNN who uncovered $85 million in unused Hurricane Katrina goods a few weeks ago have found yet another bone for Hurricane Katrina survivors to pick at. The CNN investigation found that Mississippi, the state hardest-hit by Katrina’s wind and storm surge, was one of 16 states that [...]
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    Posted: July 11, 2008, 7:48pm EDT
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  • Dogged-Day Afternoon

    A Katrina survivor is dogged by the possibility of up to a year in jail in Austin, Texas plus up to $4,000 in fines for love of her dog. When Shalanda Augillard evacuated New Orleans for Hurricane Katrina in 2005, she left behind her beloved cocker spaniel, Jazz. The dog was [...]
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    Fetched: July 10, 2008, 10:15pm EDT

  • Dogged-Day Afternoon

    A Katrina survivor is dogged by the possibility of up to a year in jail in Austin, Texas plus up to $4,000 in fines for love of her dog. When Shalanda Augillard evacuated New Orleans for Hurricane Katrina in 2005, she left behind her beloved cocker spaniel, Jazz. The dog was [...]
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    Posted: July 10, 2008, 9:39pm EDT
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  • something ain’t right

    I am a Katrina survivor and I have been diplaced here in Cleveland,Oh.I here very little about the efforts about the road home program to get back to New Orleans and I feel as though I am being left out of all that is intitled to me. I have been here [...]
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    Fetched: June 27, 2008, 10:34am EDT

  • Something Ain’t Right

    I am a Katrina survivor and I have been diplaced here in Cleveland,Oh.I here very little about the efforts about the road home program to get back to New Orleans and I feel as though I am being left out of all that is intitled to me. I have been here [...]
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    Posted: June 27, 2008, 10:31am EDT
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  • Vote Now To Turn The Lights Back On

    Though KC is a non-partisan website, it’s time for an unusual stop into the voting arena. There is a need for rebuilding along the coasts of Mississippi, and an unusually special need along the coast of Lake Pontchartrain in Louisiana. Twelve candidates from ten American states are competing to be brought [...]
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    Fetched: June 26, 2008, 11:27pm EDT

  • Vote Now To Turn The Lights Back On

    Though KC is a non-partisan website, it’s time for an unusual stop into the voting arena. There is a need for rebuilding along the coasts of Mississippi, and an unusually special need along the coast of Lake Pontchartrain in Louisiana. Twelve candidates from ten American states are competing to be brought [...]
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    Posted: June 25, 2008, 10:45pm EDT
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  • We’ve Finally Just Begun

    $85 Million in Katrina supplies is only the beginning. As federal funds are finally pouring into New Orleans, don’t you feel that, somehow -over time - we’ll see even more complaints of ineptness, incompetence, ignorance, and just plain BS that’s taken place since Hurricane Katrina, just as we’ve seen revelations of [...]
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    Fetched: June 23, 2008, 7:30pm EDT

  • We’ve Finally Just Begun

    $85 Million in Katrina supplies is only the beginning. As federal funds are finally pouring into New Orleans, don’t you feel that, somehow -over time - we’ll see even more complaints of ineptness, incompetence, ignorance, and just plain BS that’s taken place since Hurricane Katrina, just as we’ve seen revelations of [...]
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    Posted: June 23, 2008, 5:50pm EDT
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  • Read before selling to the Road Home

    any sellers selling their home under Option 2 or Option 3. Houses in Louisiana only please. If you want to get a little more at closing by selling to me under Option 1 assigned..please contact me at cmb7...@yahoo.com. This is no risk to you any information can be verified by the [...]
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    Fetched: June 23, 2008, 11:37am EDT

  • St. Bernardians relocated to MS

    We are a retired couple from Violet. LA who had to relocate to Brandon MS and we wondered how many more of us are out there.  One of our sons went back home to live in our house because his was demolished. One son relocated to Madison MS, and one [...]
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    Fetched: June 23, 2008, 11:37am EDT

  • Scarier Than Formaldehyde

    Not only is FEMA getting out of the ice-supply business after a disaster, but seems to be trying to distance itself from the notion of the agency as a temporary housing solution. FEMA banned further use of its poison-laced travel trailers as an option for temporary housing in October 2007, because [...]
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    Fetched: June 23, 2008, 11:37am EDT

  • From A Jazz Fest To The Movies

    Common Ground Relief, the volunteer group which brings post-hurricane relief, mutual aid and assistance to impoverished communities in the New Orleans area, and also our gave us our first festival “for those who just can’t afford a Jazz Fest ticket”, along with The Village/Algiers are hosting a “Free Family Movie [...]
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    Fetched: June 23, 2008, 11:37am EDT

  • “FEMA of 2008″ Cuts The Ice

    Joke of the day for those who haven’t heard: The new attitude of the “FEMA of 2008″, as FEMA Director R. David Paulison reportedly said at a recent U.S. Senate hearing, is that ice is not a life-saving commodity. To cut the cake-spending, FEMA officials reportedly announced that the agency will no [...]
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    Fetched: June 23, 2008, 11:37am EDT

  • Guest Bloggers Welcome

    Do you have news, an experience, a problem (sorry, no marriage counselors available), event, opinions, ideas, or any yadayadayada you want to share with other Hurricane Katrina or Rita survivors? Are you searching for someone? It’s been too many days here without some of you regulars. Immersing myself in recovery news, [...]
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    Fetched: June 23, 2008, 11:37am EDT

  • Hot Feet?

    “The New Orleans Police Department suspended daytime foot patrols Monday because it felt too hot outside.” from the New Orleans Times-Picayune Just WHERE are these “foot patrols” and how can we get one in our neighborhood? The only place I’ve seen this is in the French Quarter or writing tickets. [...]
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    Fetched: June 23, 2008, 11:37am EDT

  • A BIG MISTAKE?!!?!!

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    Fetched: June 23, 2008, 11:37am EDT

  • Katrina volunteer shot by car thief needs help

    A young rebuilding volunteer from Peters Township, Pennsylvania, a Pittsburgh suburb, needs help paying hospital bills after being shot in New Orleans. Mark Smith, a 23 yer-old AmeriCorps volunteer, was shot several times while trying to stop a car thief, according to a recent article in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The thought [...]
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    Fetched: June 23, 2008, 11:37am EDT

  • Could You Fill Up Your Gas Tank And Evacuate TODAY?

    Suppose a major, destructive hurricane was headed for your home and you and your family had to evacuate NOW? As the price of a gallon of regular gas has soared close to the dreaded $4.00 per gallon national average, do you have the money and could you afford to fill [...]
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    Fetched: June 23, 2008, 11:37am EDT
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