Natural disasters like Hurricane Ike, which slammed into the Houston area on Friday, cause all sorts of unexpected challenges. The need to bring ice, food and potable water to survivors isn’t among them.
Yet on Sunday — 36 hours after Ike…
In warfare, it’s generally not a good idea to prepare for the last war. With hurricanes, this time at least, the opposite was true.
Federal, state and local disaster officials spent the weekend preparing for Hurricane Gustav as if the storm…
A friend from flood-besieged Calhoun County writes:
When I went to Hamburg, IL to volunteer to help sandbag, a lady at the parking lot told me that I had to sign this loyalty oath before I could sandbag. I read it…
