Hurricane Gustav

... bombing (2013), the Philadelphia building collapse (2013), the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting (2012), the Colorado Theater Shooting (2012), the death of Whitney Houston, the death of Michael Jackson (2009), Hurricane Gustav in Louisiana (2008) and the Minneapolis bridge collapse (2007).

Building on methods they used to assess the impact of hurricanes such as Katrina, Gustav, and Rita on forests and tree mortality, scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have produced a rapid mapping of the disturbance intensity across Puerto Rico's ...

Other natural disasters in the United States like Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and Hurricane Harvey in 2017 have shown it can take the emergency responders days, even weeks to reach all off the victims. ... It packs experience, responding to recent tragedies, like Hurricanes Harvey, Gustav, and Katrina.

He filed a similar motion in 2015 in state court during the trial for Livingston Parish contractor Corey delaHoussaye, who was accused of overbilling after Hurricane Gustav — following an IG investigation — but had charges later dropped. A state judge initially ruled that Louisiana law does not grant the IG ...

There would be more of the same with Hurricanes Gustav and Ike in 2008, Tropical Storm Lee in 2011 and Hurricane Isaac in 2012. With only 2,000 residents, the Town of Jean Lafitte racked up $9.3 million in federal flood insurance payments in the eight years after Katrina, according to an analysis by Rui ...

In the aftermath of Hurricane Gustav in 2008, MTSU opened the campus for those fleeing the devastation. A year later, the university was quick to help locally after the Good Friday tornado hit Rutherford County. Most recently, McPhee led the way to help residents affected by hurricanes that hit Puerto Rico ...

“Then [Hurricane] Gustav and [Hurricane] Ike (both in 2008) came through and we fared 1,000% better than the housing before. “Florida did great in the hurricane they caught because they built to the current building codes. Puerto Rico's building codes will have you building out of concrete because of the ...

Nick Paranjape, also an alumnus and former TV news anchor, moderated a Q and A with McPhee in which they discussed MTSU's partnerships with the Red Cross over the years, including the university's role as a shelter for evacuees from Hurricane Gustav in 2008 as well as its assistance after the Good ...