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		<title>New Orleans still lacking ambulances</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During Hurricane Katrina, the New Orleans Emergency Medical Service (NOEMS) lost their offices and more than half their ambulances. Three years later, they are still operating out of trailers and continue to have a shortage of ambulances.
The New Orleans Times-Picayune reports that NOEMS has so far been denied a permanent home for their 103-paramedic staff, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.disasteraccountability.com/2008/10/08/new-orleans-still-lacking-ambulances/</link>
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		<title>Coordination between government and volunteer search and rescue organizations needs improvement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A week-long search has been going on in Shenandoah National Park for a missing man.NBC 29 TV, &#8220;Search for missing man expands,&#8221; (Oct. 5, 2008); Charlottesville Daily Progress, &#8220;Search for Staunton man continues,&#8221; (Oct. 5, 2008).
The Appalachian Search &#38; Rescue Conference (ASRC) has been providing volunteers to assist local police and the National Park Service. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.disasteraccountability.com/2008/10/07/coordination-between-government-and-volunteer-search-and-rescue-organizations-needs-improvement/</link>
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		<title>Relief Gaps Reported in Houma, LA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Disaster Accountability Project’s Hotline is receiving calls from Gustav/Ike survivors frustrated with the responses they are receiving from FEMA and the Department of Social Services.  Callers are citing long wait times for responses from FEMA after filing claims, inequalities and problems with Disaster Food Stamp Assistance, and a lack of information on resources available [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.disasteraccountability.com/2008/09/24/relief-gaps-reported-in-houma-la/</link>
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		<title>Day 9: South Texas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As of Monday, September 22nd, nearly 800,000 people are without power in South East Texas. This does not count customers who have lost their homes. Mosquitos are swarming, not just on the coast, but all over the disaster area. People without power have been forced to sleep with windows closed. Insect repellent is sold out [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.disasteraccountability.com/2008/09/22/day-9-south-texas/</link>
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		<title>Information Limited, Frustrations Grow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Carey Giudici, trip@careygiudici.com
Almost a week after Hurricane Ike, millions of Houstonians still cope with the loss of power, damage to their homes and inconsistent information about support services.
Most agreed that the storm itself was much less of a problem than what has come afterwards.
George Campos said that after paying $150 per day in gasoline to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.disasteraccountability.com/2008/09/18/information-limited-frustrations-grow/</link>
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		<title>Day Four In the Fourth Largest City In the US</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As of noon on Wednesday 61% of Houston Centerpoint Customers are still without power. That&#8217;s 1.37 million people, not counting surrounding areas effected by the storm. Power appears to be coming back on-line in smaller cities surrounding Houston which is good for first responders.
As power is restored to smaller towns outside of Houston, evacuees are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.disasteraccountability.com/2008/09/17/day-four-in-the-fourth-largest-city-in-the-us/</link>
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		<title>Hurricane Ike - Hotline Calls - Gaps - Summary 9/17/08 (10:45AM Central)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Disaster Accountability Project’s Hotline received over 80 calls since Ike&#8217;s hit.  The following summaries provide a view into what people are dealing with along the TX Gulf Coast.
A DAP radio interview in Houston about the Hotline is posted here
http://www.disasteraccountability.com/index.php?option=com_content&#38;task=view&#38;id=88
We’ve been able to respond to some callers, but not all.  There are also many phone [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.disasteraccountability.com/2008/09/17/hurricane-ike-hotline-calls-gaps-summary-91708-1045am-central/</link>
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		<title>Fuel, Clothing, Sheltering After Ike</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First, my thoughts and well wishes for the rest of the nation affected by Ike. We understand the difficulties of living with no electricity and few expected tropical storm threats in Ohio. We are sorry for your losses and hope your power (and ours) is restored quickly.
Fuel: Gas is hard to find and running low [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.disasteraccountability.com/2008/09/16/fuel-clothing-sheltering-after-ike/</link>
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		<title>Heads Still Spinning in Sugar Land</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Still Shaking in Sugar Land
Carey Giudici, trip@careygiudici.com
There&#8217;s plenty of good and bad news for the Houston area, and many of its far-flung communities, as we move on to life after Hurricane Ike.
Sugar Land, a southeastern Houston suburb with a vitality and growth pattern that belies its rather whimsical name, is only about 40 minutes northwest [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.disasteraccountability.com/2008/09/16/heads-still-spinning-in-sugar-land/</link>
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		<title>9/15 Morning Update from Texas Relief Effort</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One thing everyone should know about Houston is that they are an independent, resourceful community. Told not to evacuate, they did not. Told to lay in three days of supplies, they did, as best they could depending on their resources. Now as they wait for power to be restored, Houstonians and their neighbors, wait for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.disasteraccountability.com/2008/09/15/915-morning-update-from-texas-relief-effort/</link>
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