WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Federal, state and local authorities are reconsidering plans to evacuate the elderly, infirm and disabled should another emergency hit the United States.

NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 23 (UPI) -- The elderly, many of them unable to leave or suffering from severe medical problems, were a majority of the Hurricane Katrina casualties in New Orleans.

CHICAGO, Oct. 10 (UPI) -- Faulty federal computer networks may have been partly to blame for the government's lackadaisical response to major storms last summer -- and Hurricane Katrina

HOUSTON, Sept. 23 (UPI) -- Upside Wireless Friday offered free text messaging for wireless customers in the path of Hurricane Rita.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 (UPI) -- NASA Administrator Michael Griffin says Gulf Coast hurricanes will delay the next space shuttle launch until May -- putting it two months behind schedule.