LAKE CHARLES, La. — Two summers ago, Hurricane Laura wrecked Betty Swope’s modest bungalow at the edge of Lake Charles, a city surrounded by oil refineries in southwest Louisiana. The Federal Emergency Management Agency helped at first, paying for Ms. Swope and her son Adrian to stay in hotels, then putting a trailer in their yard and providing about $7,000 toward fixing their house.
But that covered a fraction of what repairs would cost Ms. Swope, who is 74 and,
The Sacramento is California’s largest river. It arises near the lower slopes of Mt. Shasta, in the northernmost part of the state, and runs some four hundred miles south, draining the upper corridor of the Central Valley, bending through downtown Sacramento, and, eventually, reaching the Pacific Ocean, by way of the San Francisco Bay and the Golden Gate Bridge. Erik Vink, the executive director of the Delta Protection Commission, a state conservation agency, described the Sacramento to me as “California’s
Im Juni 2021 stürzte der 13-stöckige Teil des Wohnkomplexes Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Florida, ein und der verheerende Vorfall wird noch untersucht. Bis heute haben viele Menschen ungeklärte Fragen zur Ursache des tödlichen Ereignisses. Deshalb die Miami Herald und Treefort Medien haben sich für einen neuen Podcast namens „Collapse: Disaster in Surfside“ zusammengetan.
Die Serie untersucht die unerwartete Katastrophe, bei der 98 Menschen in Surfside – einer Stadt außerhalb von Miami Beach – ums Leben kamen. Der Einsturz war
„Das passiert, wenn Kinder ein Restaurant führen“: Burger King Oil Fryer Disaster geht viral.
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I’m A Celebrity 2021 has been beset by disasters – with fans begging for the show to go on hiatus until it can return to Australia while it has now emerged it could be set for even more delays.
The first week of the reality show, now in its second year at Wales’ Gwrych Castle, has already seen the departure of hotly-anticipated contestant Richard Madeley due to illness, cancelled shows due to extreme weather conditions and stars removed from the
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In early April, Mahmood Ansari was working at his souvenir store in Atlantic City, New Jersey, when a pair of minors, one armed with a knife, robbed him. After a brief altercation, he collapsed. He was rushed to a hospital, where he was soon pronounced dead.
After Ansari’s death, I spoke with Rizwan Malik, one of his friends. Malik said that he and other business owners had unsuccessfully begged the city for additional police protection in the weeks leading up
