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		<title>Tornado-Ravaged Moore Takes First Steps to Recovery</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 09:45:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeke J. Miller / Moore, Okla.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Early Wednesday morning, the residents of Moore, Okla., gathered at the First Baptist Church in the shadow of the town&#8217;s water tower. Pallets of groceries arrived at one end of the parking lot and small boxes left in the beds of pickup trucks at the other. Outside the church, a Midwest shoe retailer fitted residents with work boots. Inside, the building was transformed into a makeshift disaster recovery center, one of three in the area. Insurance agents, Red Cross workers and Federal Emergency Management Agency officials manned tables, trying to help the steady stream of citizens put their lives back together. Two days after a tornado more than a mile wide ripped through this suburb of Oklahoma City, killing 24 people including 10 children, its residents are still coming to grips with the full scale of damage cause by the storm. Moore Mayor Glenn Lewis said the tornado caused $1.5-$2 billion in damage to more than 12,000 homes. Thousands of people are homeless or without electricity and clean drinking water. The storm’s debris—insulation, sheet rock, family photographs and leaves kicked up by 200 mile per hour winds—formed a thick paste on everything within a few blocks of the tornado’s path. (PHOTOS: Moments of Hope in Oklahoma: One Photographer’s Story) For the moment, the road to recovery seems unimaginably long for the families affected by the storm. Some of the worst hit areas remained off limits for much of the day Wednesday as emergency workers tried to repair gas leaks and other hazards. Before rebuilding, residents must pick through the debris for belongings they can salvage, negotiate settlements with their insurers, and work with FEMA to obtain additional aid. Even before that, they need to find someplace for their families to sleep. It’s daunting. But the work has begun. Barbara Bryen, who has lived in Moore since 1971, rode out the storm in her closet, hoping the tornado would miss her house. That closet was one of the only surviving parts of her home, which is just a few blocks from<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=121790&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Texas EMT to Plead Not Guilty to Explosives Charge</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 13:05:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Associated Press</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(WACO, Texas) — A lawyer for a Texas paramedic arrested on charges of possessing bomb-making material says his client will plead not guilty and had no connection to the fertilizer plant explosion that killed 14 people last month. Waco attorney Jonathan Sibley said in a prepared statement Saturday that his client, Bryce Reed anxiously awaits his next court appearance Wednesday, which will include a detention hearing. Authorities arrested Reed on Friday, but stressed that he has not been linked to the April 17 explosion in West. The statement said Reed remained &#8220;heartbroken&#8221; about the explosion, in which he lost friends, and wants to continue to help his community rebuild. Reed was a first responder, but two days after the explosion was &#8220;let go&#8221; from West EMS for unknown reasons.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=120192&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Texas Launches Criminal Probe into Plant Explosion</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 16:51:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / Angela K. Brown and Ramit Plushnick-Masti</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(WACO, Texas) — Texas law enforcement officials on Friday launched a criminal investigation into the massive fertilizer plant explosion that killed 14 people last month, after weeks of largely treating the blast as an industrial accident. The announcement came the same day a paramedic who helped to evacuate residents the night of the explosion was arrested on a charge of possessing a destructive device, though it is not clear whether the charge is related to the April 17 blast at West Fertilizer Co. The Texas Department of Public Safety said in a Friday statement that the agency had instructed the Texas Rangers and the McLennan County Sheriff&#8217;s Department to conduct a criminal probe. (PHOTOS:   Texas Town Rocked by Fertilizer Plant Explosion) &#8220;This disaster has severely impacted the community of West, and we want to ensure that no stone goes unturned and that all the facts related to this incident are uncovered,&#8221; DPS Director Steven McCraw said. McLennan County Sheriff Parnell McNamara said residents &#8220;must have confidence that this incident has been looked at from every angle and professionally handled — they deserve nothing less.&#8221; The statement did not detail any further reasons for the criminal investigation and said no additional information would be released at this time. Paramedic Bryce Reed, meanwhile, was in federal custody following his arrest on the charge of possessing a destructive device. Reed was booked into the McLennan County Jail at 2:40 a.m. and released before 8 a.m. to agents from the Bureau of Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, according to McLennan County Jail booking clerk Brandy Gann. Reed made an initial court appearance in federal court in Waco on Friday, but did not enter a plea. Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark Frazier would not release further details. Officials have largely treated the explosion as an industrial accident, though investigators still searching for the cause of a fire that preceded the blast have said they would treat the area as a crime scene until all possibilities were considered. Authorities have focused on ammonium nitrate, a chemical commonly used as<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=120140&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>After the Texas Explosion: A Firestorm of Lawsuits?</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2013/04/22/after-the-texas-explosion-a-firestorm-of-lawsuits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:12:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hilary Hylton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While the exact number of dead and injured have yet to be finalized, the damage in West, Texas is already quite evident: 75 homes demolished or badly damaged, a nursing home, an apartment complex and middle school laid waste, and West Fertilizer Company’s plant itself destroyed. Experts expect insurance claims to be in the millions of dollars. Already, property and casualty claims specialists have flooded the zone, according to Mark Hanna, spokesman for the Insurance Council of Texas. And so have the litigators. Within hours of the April 17 explosion, websites and YouTube pitches by several law firms were already up. One of the first to launch a webpage was The Schmidt Firm, a leading national plaintiffs&#8217; law firm headquartered in Dallas. &#8220;If you or somebody you know was harmed by the fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas, you should contact our lawyers immediately for a free case consultation. We are currently investigating potential lawsuits involving personal injury claims, hearing loss, property damage, economic losses, recovery costs, and more,&#8221; the firm&#8217;s West Fertilizer Company explosion page reads. Hanna estimates that actual dollar losses in the plant explosion likely will be lower than those seen following a typical spring storm in one of the Texas’ major urban areas. Hanna pointed to a storm that swept through Central Texas on March 25 and likely result in $100 million or more in claims. The Schmidt Firm’s founder, attorney C.L. Mike Schmidt, admitted to TIME that &#8220;We haven&#8217;t gotten very far in our investigation.&#8221; Nevertheless, he laid out what he anticipated will be the plan of action in the days ahead. (PHOTOS: Texas Town Rocked by Fertilizer-Plant Explosion) As the firm&#8217;s web posting indicated lawyers will be casting their net wide, not just seeking to represent the immediate victims of the blast in the small town of West. Schmidt anticipates &#8220;mass action&#8221; lawsuits, prompted by widespread damages from the blast. The blast could be heard over 40 miles away and the percussive impact of high decibel shockwave may have resulted in hearing loss and trauma, both<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=117729&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In Sandy’s Shadow: A Struggle to Recover at Redfern Houses</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 10:45:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nate Rawlings</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Edwyna Cannon welcomes visitors to her home these days, she starts by offering an apology. “I’m sorry about this,” she said as she walked down a short hallway to a back bedroom in her apartment in the Redfern Houses, a public housing project in the Far Rockaway section of Queens, NY that was in the direct path of Hurricane Sandy. “We have said sorry to everybody that came here,” her daughter, Latoya Dickson, added. “I know it’s not our fault, but we’re sorry.” Standing in the doorway on a recent Friday, Cannon gazed around the bedroom and pointed to huge green and brown mold stains that blanketed the off-white walls, as if someone had splattered them with mud. “We tried to do as much as we could ourselves, but there was ice all over thesewalls,” she said. “This,” Dickson said, “is the horror of this house.” (PHOTOS: Art for Sandy: Iconic, Collectable Photographs to Benefit Hurricane Sandy Relief) When TIME visited Redfern two weeks after Sandy made landfall, most of the complex was still without power, heat and hot water (some buildings had generators powering hallway lights). The apartments were cold and dark and the walls looked like they were sweating from condensation. Nearly 1,800 people live at Redfern, a collection of 604 apartments spread across nine drab brick buildings not far from JFK Airport. The homes are on the Rockaway Peninsula, a coastal stretch of eastern New York City that was among the areas most devastated by the storm. Now, more than a month after Sandy, we returned to Redfern to see how residents of the hard-hit and long-neglected housing project are faring. Pete Pin for TIME David Stephens plays with his daughter, Tatiana, in his apartment in the Redfern Houses in Far Rockaway, Queens, N.Y., on Nov. 30, 2012. David sent Tatiania, who suffered a brain infection that left her paralyzed, to live with his in-laws during the two weeks with no electricity after Sandy. After 15 days in the dark, power was restored on Nov. 12.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=97051&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Latoya Dickson (L) and her mother Edwyna Cannon, sit in a mold-infested bedroom of their apartment in the Redfern Houses in Far Rockaway, Queens, New York on Jan. 30, 2012. For two weeks after Hurricane Sandy, Cannon and Dickson lived without electricity or heat.</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">image: David Stephens plays with his daughter, Tatiana, in his apartment in the Redfern Houses in Far Rockaway, Queens, New York on Jan. 30, 2012. David sent Tatiania, who suffered a brain infection that left her paralyzed, to live with his in-laws during the two weeks with no electricity after Sandy.</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">image: Derek Antoine, 32, a contract employee of Synergy, a mold remediation contractor hired by the New York City Housing Authority, rests in between cleaning units at the Redfern Houses in Far Rockaway, Queens, N.Y., on Jan. 30, 2012.</media:title>
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		<title>One Month After Sandy: Where the Storm Came Ashore</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2012/11/29/one-month-after-sandy-where-the-storm-came-ashore/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2012 19:16:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Katz / Ortley Beach, New Jersey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Inside the Ortley Fish Market on Route 35N between Sixth and Seventh avenues, the water reached 1.5 or 1.8 m high, leaving brown streaks on the walls. It filled a small office behind the galley kitchen and ruined two fryers, two convection ovens and a steamer. The grill and stove seem salvageable, but the new ice machine may not be. For Carlos Morais, 41, of nearby Point Pleasant, it ruined the shop that has been in his family since 1976 — the one he took the reins of 15 years ago. &#8220;It&#8217;s just a shame. I put in a lot of work, a lot of money, and to see the store like this is &#8230;&#8221; he says, trailing off. His eyes glance at the empty fish counters, the American flag hung on the wall behind them and the half-inch of water on the white-tile floor that his sister Maria is sweeping back outside. (PHOTOS: The Toil After the Storm: Life in Sandy’s Wake) Like the fish market, nearly every business in Ortley Beach, a 2.6-sq-km community of almost 2,000 year-round residents nestled between the ocean and the bay, is shuttered. Wednesday was the third time Morais had seen the store since Oct. 29, when hurricane winds and an unprecedented surge battered the New Jersey coast and submerged his livelihood in debris and ocean water. One month ago today, Ortley Beach — part of the Toms River Township — and the barrier islands of the Jersey shore became the epicenter for Superstorm Sandy as it came ashore to devastate the northeast U.S. This week, Governor Chris Christie revised the state&#8217;s estimated damages from the storm to $36.8 billion, up from $29.4 billion. Walking around Ortley Beach, it&#8217;s easy to see why. Few homes, if any, were unaffected. Some along the beach were ripped from their foundations and brutally thrown into their neighbors, and others appear structurally sound but will need their first floors completely gutted. Like most streets closer to the shore, front yards are strewn with waterlogged mattresses and sofas, mangled<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=96182&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hurricane Sandy By the Numbers: A Superstorm&#8217;s Statistics, One Month Later</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2012 10:43:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kayla Webley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Four weeks ago today, east coast residents were huddled in their homes with fresh batteries and bottles of water, hoping for the best as Hurricane Sandy bore down on the region. We now know that, for many, the storm was a worst case scenario: Thousands of homes flooded, millions lost power and more than one hundred people died. (Read TIME&#8217;s reports from the lower Manhattan blackout and the prolonged power outage in the Rockaways.) The lost lives and razed neighborhoods provide the most tragic snapshot of the devastation. But now, one month after Sandy made landfall, there are other, less obvious numbers that offer a window onto the storm’s continued toll. 25,000,000,000 Estimated dollar value of the lost business activity as a result of Sandy, according to financial analysis firm IHS Global Insight. 8,100,000 Number of homes that lost power. The outages affected people in 17 states, as far west as Michigan. 1 Percentage of Jersey Central Power &#38; Light customers who remained without power the evening before Thanksgiving, according to the company. Between October 28 and November 12, employees worked 16-hour shifts to respond to 1.3 million reported power outages. 10,000 Number of Thanksgiving turkeys meant for those in need saved when City Harvest, a food-distribution charity, implemented a last-minute evacuation of about-to-thaw birds from a Long Island City, Queens storage facility that lost power. All of the turkeys have all since been donated. (PHOTOS: Aerial Views of Sandy&#8217;s Destruction) 15 Number of patrons at Jeremy’s Ale House, a bar inside New York City’s storm-ravaged South Street Seaport, on the night before Thanksgiving. Owner Jeremy Holin said the usual holiday eve crowd is around 110. 57,000 Number of utility workers from 30 states and Canada who came to New York to assist Consolidated Edison in returning power to the city. 1,008 Number of beds at a tent city for visiting relief workers in the parking lot of Rye Playland amusement park in Rye, N.Y. 10 How many Sandy-related photos per second were uploaded to Instagram on October 29th. 78,450 Number<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=95550&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Amusement rides on the Fun Town pier remain scattered and damaged by Superstorm Sandy, on Nov. 24, 2012 in Seaside Heights, N.J.</media:title>
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		<title>After Sandy: Why We Can’t Keep Rebuilding on the Water’s Edge</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2012 13:53:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
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			<media:title type="html">Breezy Point after the fires that destroyed many homes during Hurricane Sandy</media:title>
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		<title>In Hurricane-Battered Red Hook, Disaster is Breeding Resilience</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Nov 2012 17:56:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Karon / Red Hook, New York City</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Put Some Brightness Into Your Home!&#8221; reads a poster at the entrance to the newly established makeshift FEMA headquarters in Red Hook, the Brooklyn neighborhood devastated by HurricaneSandy. That exhortation might seem tasteless given the fact that most of those coming here for help are residents of the Red Hook Houses, the city&#8217;s largest public housing project, who remain without electricity or heat 11 days after the storm surge. But FEMA didn&#8217;t put that poster there; it was already on the wall when the agency arrived last Thursday to set up shop in the brightly-lit cafeteria of the local IKEA store. Outside in the store&#8217;s parking lot, dozens of women slowly wheel away carts containing crisp new bright-blue IKEA shopping bags full of household supplies. The bags, although not their contents, were donated to the Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation, which arrived Friday morning with five U-Haul trucks stacked high with blankets, towels, diapers, toothpaste, canned goods, cleaning materials and other basics collected from the citizens of the Danbury area in Connecticut, as well as MREs. The line of people waiting for help at the Foundation&#8217;s tables against the backdrop of one of the great temples of contemporary American consumption harkens to an iconic Margaret Bourke-White Great Depression photograph, although this crowd is a little more animated, yelling out requests &#8212; &#8220;Toothpaste!&#8221; &#8220;Diapers!&#8221; &#8220;Blankets!&#8221; &#8212; to the volunteers behind the tables who do their best to find the items in the trucks. And they complain to one another, in English and Spanish, of those who linger too long, over-filling carts from what is a finite stockpile of assistance. &#8220;People making us fight like dogs over stuff we need&#8221;, complains Red Hook Houses resident Latoya Barton, as she shepherds her daughter through the crowd. (MORE: Red Hook Apocalypse: How Sandy Undid an Up-and-Coming New York City Neighborhood) It&#8217;s hardly an orderly or systematic effort &#8212; most on this line had been told by their neighbors that they could get some help here, and there&#8217;s no system for ensuring equitable distribution. &#8220;People<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=93580&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">image: Residents displaced by Hurricane Sandy receive food distribution in the Red Hook Houses in Brooklyn, New York on Nov. 9, 2012.</media:title>
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		<title>After the Floods, Snow Sweeps into a Freezing Staten Island</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2012 18:49:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nate Rawlings / Staten Island</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Flanked by water on three sides, Tottenville, on Staten Island was battered by Hurricane Sandy. The southernmost settlement in New York State, Tottenville could easily be a charming town in eastern New Jersey, had Staten Island not been annexed by New York in 1898 and had it chosen to secede in 1993. None of those political what-ifs would have softened Sandy’s wrath. Tottenville was ravaged, as was much of the island, which saw some of the worst damage in New York City. On the few square feet of undamaged siding on a small one-story house in Tottenville, someone has spray-painted the community’s feelings: “Goodbye Sandy,” the graffiti says. “You broke our hearts.” But then Mother Nature sent in Sandy’s coldhearted little sister, the storm called Athena, to mess things up a bit more. Just about eight days after Hurricane Sandy, on the morning after the presidential election, the skies over New York City grew dark. The temperature, already chilly, plummeted; the wind whipped in circles and soon enough pummeled the area with lots and lots of heavy, wet snow. Under ordinary circumstances, a nor&#8217;easter, as such storms are called, would have created some havoc throughout the city, but with 600,000 people in New York and New Jersey still without power, the snow and wind and cold had the potential to be deadly. (PHOTOS: Sandy’s Aftermath — Devastation in Staten Island by Eugene Richards) Thee nor&#8217;easter was a sucker punch to the nose for Staten Island. First, the storm stymied the momentum of the cleanup operation, and second, it dumped half a foot of sopping snow onto already soaked ground. If there was any hope that the water would fully recede, it’s now dashed for a while longer, as small lakes cover much of the roadways in the lower ground. The relief work continues. North of Tottenville is the neighborhood of New Dorp, which lies east of the island’s central hills. Still partially without power, New Dorp, like Tottenville, has an area where houses remain intact and areas where homes were completely<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=93405&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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