Sep 3 - By Dan Strumpf, AP Auto Writer
After Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast in 2005, at least one industry got a lift: recreational vehicle makers, who benefited from the more than $1 billion spent on travel trailers and mobile homes to house displaced residents.

Aug 31 - By Mark Williams, AP Energy Writer
The path of Hurricane Gustav offered New Orleans a reprieve, but 80 miles away where utilities say the devastation was the worst they have ever seen, the storm offered nothing but punishment.

Aug 25 - By Mary Foster, Associated Press Writer
After Hurricane Katrina inundated his city, as Mayor Ray Nagin surveyed what was already being called the nation's worst natural disaster, press secretary Sally Forman asked if he was OK, she writes in a new book on the man and the post-storm chaos.