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The $80 million would come from flexible federal block grant aid given to the state after Gustav and Ike struck in 2008, so the dollars must be spent in hurricane-damaged parishes. The plan needs approval from the full Legislature and ...

Governor Jindal announced that Louisiana will receive an additional $44.2 million in Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) funds to prevent future storm losses in Louisiana following hurricanes Gustav and Ike.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced today that the Governor's request for a 12-month extension to the Direct Assistance provided for temporary housing has been granted for eligible hurricane Ike and Gustav ...

Only two tropical storms hit the US last year, compared with 2008 when Hurricanes Ike and Gustav contributed to more than $44 billion in insured losses from natural disasters. €œThe year is off to a very bad start from a loss perspective ...

Fortunately, no hurricane has hit at the beginning of the month, as Ike and Gustav did a year ago. All the postponed projects should be launched this September, including those new measures announced, but not accomplished, ...

Hurricane Gustav is pounding Cuba and Tropical Storm Hanna is headed towards the Bahamas. Now comes news from the National Hurricane Center that an area of low atmospheric pressure is €œshowing signs of organization€ off the coast of ...

... to organizations in Texas and Louisiana following Hurricanes Ike and Gustav, in addition to deploying a team of disaster response experts to assist both states in dealing with the aftermath of animal and animal agency casualties. ...

Gustav became a named storm the morning of August 25, 2008, approximately 260 miles southeast of Port-au-Prince, Haiti and became a hurricane early on August 26, 2008. The National Hurricane Center forecasted that Gustav would become a ...

He flew out just after hurricanes Hannah, Ike and Gustav and tropical storm Faye had hit the island. The former Shotton Hall Secondary School pupil said: "I have travelled extensively and thought I had seen poverty before but this was ...

I assume you mean natural disasters like hurricanes Katrina and Ike and Gustav and Hannah, and like the tornadoes that devastate much of the United States every year, and like the earthquakes in California €¦ those kinds of natural ...