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Dec. 9, 2005 News Feature
Katrina Evacuees: Precarious Times at La Quinta
FEMA's new Dec. 1 cutoff deadline for picking up the tab of hurricane evacuees living in Texas hotels and motels leaves thousands of people in housing limbo
"...last Saturday was 14-year-old Jaren Diaz, one of several Hurricane Katrina evacuees from New Orleans occupying 30 rooms at..."
Nov. 25, 2005 News Feature by Cheryl Smith
Book Reviews
"...Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in Historyby Erik Larson..."
Oct. 29, 1999 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett
Public Notice
"Caritas" Doesn't Mean a "Little Care"
"...in Honduras and Nicaragua who suffered impossible devastation from Hurricane Mitch by buying your brains out. Fri-Sun, Mar 5-7,..."
March 5, 1999 Column by Kate X Messer
Having a Plan for When Shit Hits the Fan: A Journey in Prepping
What disaster preparedness experts have to say about best-laid plans for worst-case scenarios
"...Interest in prepping hit Martin like a hurricane. A country boy from Tennessee, he moved to Miami..."
April 26, 2024 Arts Feature by Kevin Curtin
Aquarela
Incredible documentary is a song of the power of water
"...a mid-Atlantic storm, or the wild howls of a hurricane. Kossakovsky isn't interested in its passive states, like ponds..."
Sept. 6, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
Local Band Montopolis Scores a Multimedia Ode to the Texas Coast
Galveston (and you) will be blown away by this production
"...Not literally: The Great Galveston Hurricane, the deadliest natural disaster in American history, happened way..."
Aug. 2, 2019 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner
Headlines
"...In what's beginning to look like the New Normal, Hurricane Harvey's devastation of the Gulf Coast was followed by..."
Sept. 15, 2017 News Feature
Day Trips
The Pleasure Pier amusement park returns to Galveston in a big way
"...25th and Seawall began in 1943 and lasted until Hurricane Carla washed it away in 1961. The air-conditioned ballroom..."
April 20, 2012 Column by Gerald E. McLeod
The Informant
Revolutionary to rat: The uneasy journey of Brandon Darby
"...in New Orleans. There, initially in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, he had helped rescue stranded residents and rebuild..."
Jan. 23, 2009 News Feature by Diana Welch
Staking Out the Senate
A few Dem wins could temper the Republican majority's agenda
"...suspended his campaign against GOP incumbent Mike Jackson after Hurricane Ike: not out of political expediency, but because his..."
Oct. 17, 2008 News Feature by Richard Whittaker
Res Publica
This week's civic agenda, Sept. 11-18
"...(6:30pm). Fri., Sept. 12, 7am-7pm, Auditorium Shores. Due to Hurricane Ike, the exhibit moves to Central Presbyterian Church, 200..."
Sept. 12, 2008 News Feature
Naked City
News briefs from Austin, the region, and elsewhere
"...[Editor's note: This event has been canceled due to Hurricane Ike; check the Community Listings for event updates.] Texas..."
Sept. 12, 2008 News Feature
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"...• Although the most recent Atlantic hurricane season spared the U.S. any major turmoil, Central America..."
Nov. 23, 2007 News Feature
Finding God in the Gumbo
Once in the Ninth Ward and now in the Hill Country, the Smoking for Jesus Ministry serves up Real New Orleans Style fare with a side of spiritual nourishment
"...But what do you do when life gives you Hurricane Katrina, decimating your entire community and way of life?..."
May 4, 2007 Food Feature by MM Pack
The Hightower Report
The Invaders From Afar; and the Inspiring Power of Kids
"...consider our nation's response to the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina. While politicians held self-serving press conferences, and while..."
Jan. 12, 2007 News Column by Jim Hightower
Katrina: The Girl Who Wanted Her Name Back
The play 'Katrina: The Girl Who Wanted Her Name Back' seeks to honor the New Orleanians affected by Hurricane Katrina, but the level of intensity in the UT staging often makes it hard to connect to
"...Bad enough to be named Katrina when a hurricane called that drowns New Orleans – it's like guilt..."
Oct. 20, 2006 Arts Review by Robert Faires
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Headlines and Happenings from Austin and Beyond
"...some major streamlining by creating a single form that hurricane evacuees can fill out and send in, replacing a..."
Oct. 20, 2006 News Feature
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"...University released on Oct. 3 their "Forecast of Atlantic Hurricane Activity for October-November 2006 and Seasonal Update Through September,"..."
Oct. 13, 2006 News Feature
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Headlines and Happenings from Austin and Beyond
"...• Hurricane Rita evacuees' unemployment benefits are slated to end this..."
June 23, 2006 News Feature
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Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
"...May 25 which members of the last group of Hurricane Katrina evacuees still receiving federal rent and utility assistance..."
June 2, 2006 News Feature
Tell It Like It Is
Cyril Neville holds nothing back
"...to the breaking point by his hometown. Fleeing a hurricane of epic proportions, Neville's 57 years as a target..."
April 28, 2006 Music Feature by Robert Gabriel
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
"...Center closed its doors permanently Wednesday, so evacuees of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in the area who have FEMA..."
Jan. 13, 2006 News Feature
Here Yet Ever There
From Austin, New Orleans artists strive to save what remains of their city and work to recover it
"...those "yat" sounds were usually coming from New Yorkers. Hurricane Katrina has brought many Orleanians to Austin, including visual..."
Nov. 25, 2005 Arts Feature
Katrina Evacuees Falling Through Housing Cracks
Federal and city aid maze difficult to navigate
"...be living on the streets, but the thousands of Hurricane Katrina evacuees in temporary housing setups throughout the U.S...."
Nov. 4, 2005 News Feature by Cheryl Smith
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Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
"...• Hurricane Rita came and went, causing much trouble and consternation..."
Sept. 30, 2005 News Feature
Art Aid
In the wake of Katrina, Austin artists do their part to help
"...efforts to meet the critical needs of evacuees from Hurricane Katrina, Austin arts organizations and individual artists, musicians, comedians,..."
Sept. 23, 2005 Arts Feature by Heather Barfield Cole
Comic Relief, Katrina-Style
Ron 'Tater Salad' White will headline an all-star comedy concert to benefit the American Red Cross Hurricane Relief Fund
"...all-star comedy concert to benefit the American Red Cross Hurricane Relief Fund. Joining the star of Comedy Central and..."
Sept. 16, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
"...encounter: Where was your God during and after that hurricane? On the throne?..."
Sept. 9, 2005 Column
Where Was Our President?
"...plan? When news reports were warning of a catastrophic hurricane hitting our Gulf Coast, President Bush was on vacation..."
