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The Houston Independent School District announced today that 120 schools with electricity will reopen for students on Tuesday...All principals should report to work Monday, as should teachers at the schools reopening Tuesday. Elementary schools that will...
It will be another week before that happens, however, as crews were only beginning to get basic services restored on the crippled barrier island. A lone pump was back on at a gas station about two blocks behind the Galveston seawall Friday. Cell phone...
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Homeowners in the areas most devastated by Hurricane Ike will battle rising supply and labor costs when they rebuild. And if those costs exceed their insurance policy limits, they will have to foot the difference. "If it exceeds the limit, the homeowner...
Although traffic began moving through the Houston Ship Channel again Thursday, the Port of Houston will take an economic hit from being forced to shut down temporarily because of Hurricane Ike. So will the Port of Galveston, where officials plan to reopen...
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The Cleveland-based company declared force majeure on shipments from its SunBelt Chlor Alkali Partnership in McIntosh, Ala. The term means that a contract party is not liable for fulfilling the terms of the contract because of circumstances beyond its...
hat was the question rescuers asked themselves when they returned to Bolivar Peninsula. As we rolled through the silent streets under a brilliant blue Texas sky, I was asking myself the same question...It was 8:30AM and I saw this one coming. "I'm already...
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Several days after the remnants of Hurricane Ike brought several inches of rain to Mid-Michigan, two things continue: the cleanup and the complaining. Heavy rains flooded basements throughout the city of Flint this weekend. But some of the worst damage...
Texas When Pamela Caldwell heard police allowed a friend to enter this beach city to check on her house, she high-tailed it to the freeway Wednesday morning to see if she could get in, too. She heard the city had suspended a "look and leave" policy...
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The Bush administration was considering asking the International Energy Agency to release emergency gasoline and diesel fuel to the United States after hurricanes pushed gasoline stocks to their lowest level on record, a cabinet official said Wednesday.
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More than three days after Hurricane Ike, some urban residents lined up for hours for free ice, water and food, while many rural and suburban residents in hard-hit communities around Houston were only getting their first tastes of federal storm emergency...
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