Rectangular homes also offer efficient use of space with the least amount of waste. As people realized this, and the homes were sturdy enough to survive, they became the order of the day.

Dean also evacuated residents of numerous New Orleans-area nursing homes to a poorly equipped warehouse he owned in downtown Baton Rouge for 1992’s Hurricane Andrew and 1998’s Hurricane Georges.

Nearly two years later, and after more than 100 homes have already been leveled, San Bernardino County Superior Court Judge Donald Alvarez ruled last week that the county’s review of the project ...

— Following the deaths of seven patients amid the ill-fated evacuation of more than 800 others, the Louisiana Department of Health Tuesday announced it has shut down seven nursing homes that ...

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By Paul P. Murphy, CNN The Louisiana Department of Health was aware of plans from seven nursing homes to evacuate their residents to a warehouse in Independence, Louisiana, to shelter during ...

State officials last week removed all the residents from the warehouse and relocated them to nursing homes; more than a dozen needed to be hospitalized. Before Hurricane Ida made landfall, the ...