In the morning we eat grains and oats, then break down camp: individual tarps, group tarps, pots and pan and other supplies.
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Many roofs were merely old tarps with holes in them.
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He burned plastic chemical drums, nylon, tires, wires, and tarps.
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The less fortunate huddle under tarps that crumple during rainstorms.
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Unfortunately, these small tarps did not make the chickens safer.
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Up to 30,000 homes remain covered by blue roof tarps that were supposed to be temporary — about half the number of houses under tarps at the time of the one-year anniversary a year ago.
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The rescuers improvised stretchers by using tarps, rice sacks, and sticks.
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He tied tarps above the seat to keep the rain off.
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"People are always saying they need water and tarps," he said.
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Sometimes, the boats are covered in tarps to help avoid detection.
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And in another part of town, tarps cover a street market.
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We leave our shoes beside our tarps, and staffers collect them.
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We lay tarps on the ground and place lights atop them.
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Shelter Items Ropes, tarps, tent, and a strong, water-resistant tape.
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency in November fired Bronze Star, a Florida company it had hired to deliver tarps to the island, according to the Associated Press, after the company failed to deliver tarps to the island.
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Huey Harris, 59, began shaking out tarps and picking up discarded cans.
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For every machine we're able to see, two are shrouded under tarps.
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With time the camp became more permanent, tarps replaced with scrap metal.
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Food, medical supplies, tarps and clothes are also urgently needed, it said.
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I cried when I saw the blue tarps flying in last week.
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NVMA distributed pallets and tarps to evacuees in preparation for bad weather.
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Blue tarps still serve as makeshift roofs on more than 50,000 homes.
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Blue tarps covered the holes in roof after galvanized-steel corrugated roof.
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Furniture and plastic tarps are not because they can damage the lawn.
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Can you imagine for the people who still have those blue tarps?
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Many homes damaged in September were still covered in large blue tarps.
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He says there are enough tarps on the island to meet needs.
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Flying over the island today, the blue tarps can be seen everywhere.
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More than 43,000 more received smaller tarps to protect specific rooms or belongings.
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More than 100,000 more received smaller tarps to protect specific rooms or belongings.
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The spools will be loaded onto a flatbed truck and covered with tarps.
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He recently noted that some 60,000 people still have only tarps for roofs.
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People camped out overnight, sleeping under tarps and blankets to fight the cold.
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People stay in traditional camping tents, tipis and makeshift structures covered in tarps.
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Tents and tarps have been pulled together to shield families from the elements.
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Blue, government-issued tarps cover damaged roofs like a network of Band-Aids.
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The agency has stockpiled massive amounts of emergency meals, bottled water, and tarps.
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FEMA has distributed 38,000 tarps on the island, said Hernandez, the FEMA official.
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So long as there are trees to strip up tarps, we can sleep.
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The dressmaking dummies were covered with black nylon tarps, shrouding shapes and materials.
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But blue tarps cover many deserted homes, their roofs damaged or missing entirely.
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Two tarps were neatly arrayed with books, clothing, housewares and personal care products.
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Homes there are still covered with tarps two years after the devastating storm.
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Up to 30,000 survivors of Hurricane Maria are still living under leaky tarps.
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Months later, nearly all those requests for professionally installed tarps have been fulfilled.
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The supplies include about 250,000 meals, 77,000 liters of water and 4,000 tarps.
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FEMA said it is still distributing tarps, food, and water to some communities.
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FEMA tarps covering homes in the Cantera area of San Juan on Oct. 19.
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There are still so many blue tarps in place of roofs in Puerto Rico.
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The humanitarian tarps that cover the ground between two of the huts looked pristine.
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A closeup photo of the sign showed the tarps used by the DIY vandal.
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Around the first bend was a ramshackle mining settlement, tarps stretched over tree poles.
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Tarps and netting are also suspended over the vessel's decks, according to the note.
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Shoes in progress had to be sheltered under tarps when the roof leaked — frequently.
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" Army tarps hung from branches are like "the wings of giant bats at rest.
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Two tarps were draped on the o's in "wood," transforming them into lowercase e's.
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That contracting issue did not slow down the work of distributing tarps, Hernandez says.
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Even tarps were made readily available during the disastrous recovery efforts of Hurricane Katrina.
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But blue and green tarps dotting the landscape are not inspiring colors of hope.
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The planes will start carrying tarps, food, water, medicine and other necessities by air.
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The royal-blue plastic tarps covering the stalls appeared nearly black, like funeral shrouds.
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About 50 other houses are occupied, with blue tarps to keep out the rain.
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Photos showed the extent of the destruction, and bodies covered by blue tarps amid rubble.
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Families cram under tarps and makeshift shelters or pack a school waiting for their accommodations.
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A year later, many still have blue tarps as a substitute roof for their home.
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Our companions quickly worked their machetes, building a shelter from tree trunks, netting and tarps.
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So they were living under blue tarps, and you could see all the burnt debris.
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They are showing up with work gloves and chain saws and garbage bags and tarps.
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Plastic tarps were tied to the razor-wire-topped fences to block the afternoon sun.
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And blue roof tarps are still a common sight in the mountain and coastal neighborhoods.
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In Port Moresby, many settlers live in shacks made of scrap wood and plastic tarps.
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For thousands of others, only colorful tents and tarps stand between them and the elements.
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Case after case, pallet piled upon pallet, blue tarps and plastic glinting in the sun.
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Plastic tarps protected them from the intense sun, and small knapsacks held their few belongings.
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Later, as the Seattle workforce donned their Fitbits and did laps around the popular jogging path that girds the lake, the crew mixed concrete in tarps, pouring in lake water and swinging the tarps back and forth like hammocks to make the proper slurry.
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Tarps cover the extensive damages the car endured from the deadly crash, Friday, July 6, 2018.
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Alongside it, a 100-ton hydrofoil—covered by tarps—runs along a fence, like a locomotive.
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The models stood in rows on top of tarps in a scene that was post-apocalyptic.
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Other family members and friends have brought us much-needed water filters, batteries, food and tarps.
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The City of Charlottesville has 15 days to remove the tarps over the statues of Gens.
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When a thunderstorm rolled in, the men quickly moved their catch under tarps to protect it.
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Thousands still await government-issued tarps as temporary replacements to roofs blown away by the storm.
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Coady already put out small tarps for the birds, shade covers from the South Georgia elements.
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And I knew that contracting issues at the Army Corps had slowed the installation of tarps.
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More than 25,000 homes still have blue tarps for roofs and the electric grid remains unstable.
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"People are always saying they need water and tarps," said Indonesian Red Cross spokesman Arifin Hadi.
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Where are the tarps that residents can use as makeshift roofs while they can rebuild properly?
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The Bergdorf staff worked in top secret, behind tarps that obscured the view from the street.
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The tarps that covered the third deck have been removed, improving the atmosphere if not the gate.
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Government officials had said they were most worried about those still living with tarps on their roofs.
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They provided 1.6 million meals, 2.8 million liters of water, and around 5,000 tarps to Puerto Rico.
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At one moment, we were delivering blue tarps because we knew what communities needed them, what homes.
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There are high-end tents, campers and tipis, and failed structures with tarps blowing in the wind.
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They found shelter under white and blue tarps in a makeshift camp in Ituri's capital city, Bunia.
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As the threat of rain loomed Wednesday, migrants scrambled to cover their tents with black plastic tarps.
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An aerial view reveals hundreds of homes still depending on blue tarps to provide shelter in homes.
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Separately, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, administers a program to distribute tarps to Puerto Ricans.
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Roofs had been torn off row after row of houses, blue tarps strung across the yawning holes.
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Government relief workers have installed 57,000 blue tarps as makeshift roofs on damaged homes across the island.
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The tarps remained down for a few days, and the detainees started making art about the sea.
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Federal officials were faulted for an inadequate response in providing food, roof tarps and other emergency needs.
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Each truck carried about 12 pallets of supplies, including cots, tarps, stoves and empty plastic water jugs.
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They are sleeping in tents and tarps set up in stadiums, in fields and next to highways.
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Three months afterward, only a third of Puerto Rican households had received tarps for their damaged homes.
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They are sleeping in mattresses, tents and tarps set up in stadiums, fields and next to highways.
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Contracting issues and other bureaucratic missteps have plagued the delivery and installation of tarps in Puerto Rico.
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Several US charities are on the ground supplying medical teams, tarps, radios, food, water and other aid.
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Tarps can cover broken windows to keep out the weather as well, if plywood isn't immediately available.
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Just hours after the tarps went up, a man wielding a knife attempted to cut them down.
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Videos show each dolphin being carried by as many as nine people on red tarps back to water.
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The base in Seguin holds 503,00 meals, 96,000 liters of water, 4,500 tarps and 33 generators, FEMA said.
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Every night, around 15 to 20 students sleep on tarps, blankets, and air mattresses strewn on the floor.
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She said FEMA has distributed 110,519 tarps to hurricane survivors so far, and that the US Army Corps.
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Sánchez's husband was recently filmed losing his temper as a mob of people outside his house demanded tarps.
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Several hours later, security footage allegedly shows him purchasing paver bricks, tarps, and nylon cord at Home Depot.
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Walk through Los Angeles's Skid Row and you'll find tarps, trash, and hundreds of tents covering the sidewalks.
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The preservationists' lawsuit prevented the immediate removal of the statues, but city workers covered them with black tarps.
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There were no tarps to protect the roofless houses in her neighborhood, but Ms. Sánchez considered herself fortunate.
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When we did, we saw that there were more walls of fences and tarps, so it was useless.
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We couldn't see more than 30 feet beyond our cells at best — walls, fences, green tarps covering everything.
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Others complained of an absence of basics like tarps for roofs and the continuing lack of running water.
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A series of deftly arranged tarps sheltered patrons sitting on red plastic stools at a handful of tables.
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Samaritan's Purse volunteer teams are helping homeowners by cutting trees and adding tarps to roofs, among other tasks.
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The military base will have about 250,000 meals, 77,000 liters of water and 4,000 tarps, the station reported.
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Some are sleeping under tarps, but most have nothing to protect them from the rain and sweltering sun.
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Towels, boxes of unorganized bandages, tape, tarps, and hand sanitizer are carried in by neighbors in the area.
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Moore also said the tarps have interfered with the public's right to see the monuments and enjoy the parks.
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For example, the pair recently discussed how Carson can make Streetubez sustainable by using recycled parachutes instead of tarps.
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The area is shaded by tarps, out of sight of government drones, and the air smells of machine oil.
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The wind ravaged construction tarps, and, at times, I questioned the structural soundness of the 133-year-old bridge.
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Then, the field staff brought out the tarps for a rain delay in the top of the 10th inning.
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In one large homeless encampment in Oakland, hidden under the interstate, makeshift tents cluster together beneath flimsily tied tarps.
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In fact, according to Politico, Goodwin said that the FBI was endangering the artwork by covering it with tarps.
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This camp of tents, tarps and corrugated metal in the Iraqi desert serves as an oasis for the desperate.
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For now, the booth is closed, with tarps covering the roof and all of the electronics inside and out.
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The red and yellow tarps above the once open market hide what's going on from eyes in the skies.
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Spicer blamed white tarps laid out in front of The Capitol for highlighting the empty spots in the crowd.
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Friday began like so many other days this week, with rain falling and the outside courts covered with tarps.
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Nearby, Pakistani migrants lived outside beneath tarps held up with metal parking barriers — dark cages in the baking sun.
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For the first time, staffers come and check every tree we've strung our tarps against, check every tree nearby.
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Tens of thousands huddle on sidewalks or under olive trees, the branches draped with plastic tarps, blankets or nothing.
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In the meantime, Steele slept in a snow cave before building a better shelter, using tarps and scrap lumber.
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Workers covered the crumpled cars they recovered with tarps and placed them onto flatbed trucks that took them away.
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The agency has distributed 169,000 tarps to municipalities across Puerto Rico for self-installation, he says on December 18.
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Moore has said the tarps have interfered with the public's right to see the monuments and enjoy the parks.
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However Judge Moore ruled the tarps had to be removed because the city never defined what a "temporary" shrouding meant.
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Houses remain covered in tarps, awaiting repairs to their storm-ravaged roofs, and at least one sported anti-FEMA graffiti.
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Thousands of homes still have temporary tarps covering holes in their roofs and some roads still have not been cleared.
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An Associated Press photographer on the scene Tuesday witnessed at least two bodies lying motionless on the path beneath tarps.
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He told me 20-25% of his residents still have tarps or some sort of temporary roof over their homes.
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Since that September storm, residents have relied on generators for electricity, and tarps still serve as roofs for many houses.
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About 30,000 homes still use blue tarps for roofs, after a slow recovery from the devastation caused by Hurricane Maria.
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Expansive greenhouses, constructed of simple white plastic tarps draped over support poles and wiring, dot the area's rich green hills.
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They worked their way inward, throwing dirty blankets and mattresses, discarded furniture and tarps into a large container for trash.
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Parts of the US commonwealth are still recovering from the hurricane two years later — 30,000 homes have tarps for roofs.
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The City Council, once divided over the fate of the Confederate statues, voted to shroud the figures in black tarps.
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A caller to a radio show requested more tarps delivered to her part of the island for use as roofs.
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Ms. Lala's extended family built their tent using bamboo they cut from the forest and large blue tarps they purchased.
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The fans even sat in the upper deck, where the seats are usually covered by tarps during the regular season.
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Usually, with the tarps in the upper deck, the attendance for much of the season is capped at about 26,000.
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Home Depot said it expects to see a rise in the purchase of tarps, cleaning supplies, chain saws and fuel.
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Matthew 25: Ministries is distributing personal care kits, cleaning products, first aid and safety kits, diapers, paper products and tarps.
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Black tarps were raised around the crash while he was placed in an ambulance and transported to a local hospital.
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They live in tents and shacks fashioned from jagged pieces of plywood, discarded carpets, discarded two-by-fours and tarps.
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Some kiosks were painted with the Syrian flag; a few were roofed with tarps from the United Nations refugee agency.
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A judge in Charlottesville, Va., has ordered the city to remove the tarps covering the statues of two Confederate generals.
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"Anyone who flies in to Puerto Rico may notice the amount of blue tarps as they are landing, and that is only a small representation of the rest of the municipalities," said Amarilis González, a former English teacher who founded Toldos Pa' Mi Gente, or Tarps for My People, a group that collected house coverings.
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The marché's wooden stalls were completely restored, bricks were relayed, (some) equipment modernized, and the marché was protected by canvas tarps.
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At the golf course, Portlanders begin helping each other hang tarps from the trees to create temporary shelters for the night.
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As camera crews frantically dived beneath hastily erected tarps, reporters breached barrier, spilled onto the carpet and swirled around the stars.
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Nine days after Harvey, Houston received from FEMA about 2300 million meals, 254 million liters of water, and over 113,211 tarps.
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By May 12, Jwalant had walked for two days and reached the village of Rumchet with tarps, medicine, blankets and rice.
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Tarps along the sides and solar panels on top... ... hide the hydrofoil technology that Slater and Fincham are hyper-secretive about.
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Outside, plastic tarps shield the cooking area where al Shabi stirs rice in a cast iron pot over an open fire.
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Almost two years later, some homeowners are still appealing to FEMA as they live under blue tarps; others have given up.
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Hardware stores in the San Francisco Bay area are doing good business selling tarps and modern gel-based versions of sandbags.
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That agency has provided about 116,000 tarps on the island since Hurricane Maria, according to Daniel Llargues, a spokesman for FEMA.
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Rossello encouraged residents living in homes with roofs covered by blue tarps to find refuge in shelters or family members' homes.
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The team sprayed down the whole locker room -- although they were at least kind enough to put up the tarps beforehand.
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Seated on a folding camp chair under a ceiling of blue and grey tarps, Ana McBee warns me to be careful.
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Pictures surfaced on social media this week of tarps and scaffolding covering the area of the wall the mural was painted.
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But, she said, that had not halted their work: Another plane was bringing 50 more generators and more than 1,000 tarps.
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Packed on top of one another in the trucks, and concealed under tarps and other cargo, the passengers can hardly breathe.
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He said that they were using heavier ropes than before and that several tarps were torn and ripped in the process.
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Using front loaders, excavators and bulldozers, workers placed soil in piles on the edges of the site, covered with large tarps.
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Rain still soaks the thousands who wait for government-issued tarps to temporarily replace the roofs blown away five months ago.
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Soon, the hundreds of arriving boxes had filled the porch and she was searching for tarps to keep off the rain.
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Wearing what looked like sculptural tarps, they seemed to move in response to the wind, feeling for its shifts of direction.
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There are still some 45,000 homes with so-called "blue roofs," or tarps installed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
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The vandal -- who police think is probably a man -- used tarps to change the O's in the sign to E's, he said.
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During those first nine days, FEMA provided 5.1 million meals, 4.5 million liters of water, and more than 20,000 tarps to Houston.
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All six of them live in a tent built from tarps purchased in the nearby village of Moria, bought for 219 euros.
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In addition to all the machinery, farmers directed traffic, put tarps on bales and cleared tumbleweeds that had blown into the fields.
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Compared to Hurricane Maria preparations, FEMA plans to have 6.5 times more water, six times more generators, and eight times more tarps.
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That meant there were no cots and tarps in Puerto Rico as powerful Maria churned toward the island just two weeks later.
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Plastic tarps like this one, seen here on a house in September 2018, were still covering 30,000 homes when Dorian came through.
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Three other crab apple trees have been deeply scored around their bases and bound in black tarps with rope and more tape.
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That guide recommends that people in hurricane territory keep a few heavy-duty plastic tarps on hand to temporarily seal damaged roofs.
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They used plastic tarps, towels, bedsheets and pieces of wood to try to plug the windows where rain water was surging through.
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The worst, often in illegal settlements called "invasions," are assembled from scrap building materials and tarps, tree branches, sticks and even cardboard.
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Shelves are stocked with 215,226 tarps, according to FEMA, more than the 22016,15 available at the start of the 226 hurricane season.
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Refugees rent space from landowners with unused plots of ground—usually in agricultural areas—and erect tents made from wood and tarps.
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Personnel there were stockpiling 96,000 liters of water and 306,000 meals, as well as supplies like blankets and tarps for affected communities.
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He described his home as a Quonset hut -- a lightweight frame, covered in plastic tarps -- that he bought from a Vietnam veteran.
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Some sat on blue-and-orange tarps that had been spread on the concrete floor, and many looked on with vacant stares.
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Some designers were working with Freitag, a Swiss company that makes bags out of old truck tarps, and they were launching a Kickstarter.
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Tunnels passed under streets, and paths between houses were obscured by tarps or slats of wood to hide fighters' movements from surveillance drones.
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Little fires, surrounded by rocks, are outside many of the makeshift shelters that have been cobbled together from tarps and flimsy summer tents.
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Each year a few thousand spectators and participants drive campers and trailers onto the salt and set up tents, tarps and lawn chairs.
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Accompanied by armed Haitian police officers, US soldiers hauled huge bags of rice and boxes full of waterproof plastic tarps off the aircraft.
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Thousands poured into Oaxaca City, where the charming town center has become a makeshift camp of battered tarps and tents for protesting teachers.
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Photographs of the household show a makeshift structure created from tarps strung together, with a bed that's simply a tarp on the ground.
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Earlier this week, 300 shelters were being prepared, and far more blankets, tarps, food, and water will be ready to use this time.
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The United Nations refugee agency says Mexico's National Institute of Migration oversees the camp, noting that it installed portable toilets and metal tarps.
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In Akron, the rows of battered tents, some patched with tarps and rope, were erected on private property and with the landowner's blessing.
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The relief will include food, water, cots, toilet kits, tarps and temporary shelter, as well as drive-by food distribution, his statement said.
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The boats carried hand-operated pump filters, water-storage bladders, latrine slabs (pit covers that users squat on), tarps, soap and other supplies.
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It came to a head in the 1980s with a series of "abstractions" that did double duty as camouflage tarps and Rorschach blots.
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These days the Major Leagues use tarps, but there have been times when teams lit their fields on fire to dry them out.
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It's a forecast that worries many in Puerto Rico because blue tarps still cover some 4303,7050 homes nearly two years after Hurricane Maria.
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It's hard to be optimistic and hopeful when you're stuck in limbo and living under tarps, Brenda said, but Pablo keeps her going.
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A judge later ruled that Jackson's statue meets the criteria for a war memorial, but chose to keep the tarps over the statues.
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Paintings by young people from around the world with supportive messages replaced blue tarps covering the Tree of Life building, the AP reported.
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Most of the bag is constructed of those old truck tarps, an extremely tough polyurethane-coated fabric used to keep cargo dry during transport.
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It's why they've covered the hydrofoil system with tarps and topped it with solar panels, so drone operators can't get a shot from above.
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Instead, the skaters built a 235' x 15' bowl overnight on a tiny urban island using nothing but a canoe, tarps, and hand tools.
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They still need lots of help and basic tools to get even basic things up and running -- things like generators, ice, tarps, and tools.
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Hundreds of thousands of homes in Puerto Rico need the tarps, and FEMA says the agency has distributed about 38,000 as of mid-October.
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Others suggested putting extra tarps around the coops to keep chickens dry and coating exposed chicken skin with petroleum jelly to ward off frostbite.
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Thousands of people still don't have roofs on their homes, and are waiting for the US Army Corp of Engineers to install blue tarps.
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Acres upon acres of forest have been razed to make way for small cities of huts, made from cheap black tarps covered in mud.
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News that a hurricane was headed toward Cuba caused camp administration to take down the green tarps that blocked us from seeing the sea.
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Among other found materials, Musekiwa incorporated the bright blue tarps that were meant to serve as temporary covers for buildings damaged by Hurricane Maria.
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We need tarps, tents, sleeping bags, batteries, flashlights, heavy equipment, generators, chain saws, electrical workers and people capable of rebuilding communication towers and homes.
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Peeking under the hung tarps I see that there is a sea of empty vitrines and a bunch of other exhibition props and tools.
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Terrified of sleeping indoors as aftershocks continue, neighbors put mattresses in their front yards while others spent the night under white tents and tarps.
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I saw the infamous blue tarps, still covering the tops of houses whose roofs had been blown off a year and a half ago.
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Further inland, winds are expected to be less powerful, but strong enough to rip tarps off roofs damaged by Florence, the governor's office said.
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There are two official camps—Kutupalong and Balukhali—but 21 extension camps have been built by Rohingyas supplied with tarps and bamboo by aid groups.
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Although tarps were hung to ensure the privacy of the event, many celebrities close to Jay Z were photographed on their way into the venue.
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Blue and red tarps covering the Sienna vehicle with its front-end smashed were seen in photos taken from the scene of the fatal collision.
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A few Skid Row pet owners have created small dog yards next to their tents under tarps to block out the sun and makeshift fencing.
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But our new cedar friends are big enough to hold all of our tarps up, without so much as a groan from their woven roots.
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Scott said he's asked the Department of Homeland Security and FEMA for food, water and tarps, pumping support, generators, debris removal crews and power support.
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Oxfam, for example, is working with local Indonesian partners to deliver essential aid like emergency shelters, soap and sanitary items, water containers, tarps, and toilets.
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"The Jungle" soon grew into a makeshift community, with shops, mosques and a church between the tarps and tents that are often thick with mud.
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WIMBLEDON, England — On Wednesday, Wimbledon picked up where it left off the day before — with outside courts covered in tarps and a steady drizzle falling.
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To prepare for a visit from a journalist and a photographer, Exponent employees covered a couple of in-progress, large-scale experiments in blue tarps.
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To make sure dust doesn't become airborne, Klug said crews water the ash and debris, as well as put tarps on trucks carrying the materials.
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Then, they buried them along with the food, covering the pots with cardboard and tarps to keep them from getting excessively soiled by the dirt.
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In fact, the water is apparently still sitting on the same airport runway where it was unloaded last year, partially covered with fraying blue tarps.
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Royal Caribbean and Norwegian were sending cruise ships with supplies — bags of ice and tarps were in particular demand — and to take stranded tourists out.
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Bodies covered in tarps lined the streets of Palu, and officials said they were digging a mass grave for at least 225 of the dead.
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Everything is nautical themed, from the porthole-shaped windows to white sail tarps and glossy lacquered wood resembling the sleek deck of an Italian yacht.
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The opera is a collaboration with her brother, Adam Fure, and much of the music is played on objects such as bowls, cranks and tarps.
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Rubio said the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is reserving millions of meals, cots, plastic sheets and tarps at a support base in Montgomery, Ala.
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Terrified of sleeping indoors as aftershocks continue, neighbors put mattresses in their front yards while others spent the night Tuesday under white tents and tarps.
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The temporary tarps residents had been given weren't adequate to withstand the hot sun and water collecting from constant rainfall, which was leading to failures.
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According to WVIR, a lawsuit claims elected officials have overstepped their authority by leaving the tarps and have no legal right to remove the statues.
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"Formed by two brothers in August, Bronze Star had never before won a government contract or delivered tarps or plastic sheeting," the Associated Press reported.
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"These 393,000 do not include the thousands who, though not technically homeless, will live in damaged homes covered only by blue plastic tarps," she said.
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On Tuesday, a team of workers specialized in using ropes at great heights — "mountaineers" as they are called in French — labored to install the tarps.
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The company, Bronze Star LLC, was not able to provide the tarps and temporary plastic roofs as required on time, the Associated Press reported on Tuesday.
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"We are working the forklifts and helping FEMA load up water pallets, tarps, and food into shipping containers," Belton said from his station at the airport.
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Before dark, the golf course is transformed into a maze of tents, tarps overhead, people gathered around tables lit with flashlights, sharing news, information, and supplies.
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Even converting to slightly less offensive system, like covering the lagoons with giant tarps to extract methane from the waste, can cost around $300,000 per lagoon.
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Meanwhile, Martinez-Roman said, the island's landscape remains dotted with the blue tarps of damaged homes, the owners somewhere, waiting to get on with their lives.
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A few months later, she found a notice on the front door saying workers would be digging nearby and would place tarps over windows and doors.
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Later, DePalma would store it behind a friend's ranch house, where all his jacketed fossils from the season were laid out in rows, covered with tarps.
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A second show soon followed, this one of big, studiously bland abstract paintings that Mr. Hammons had shrouded in industrial tarps, frayed blankets and plastic sheeting.
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Other indications include the presence of machines that pump water out of the testing tunnels, and the accumulation of equipment piled up under tarps and canopies.
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After Carminati and Crotti blessed the latest batch of coffins on Saturday, army troops in protective gear loaded them onto five trucks covered by camouflaged tarps.
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The big mound of yellowish-white beans, already one of the taller hills in this flat part of the world, will then be covered with tarps.
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Mayor Linda Hudson of Fort Pierce urged the same caution, with the memories of power outages and blue tarps in 2004 still fresh in her mind.
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In the city of Ponce on Puerto Rico's southern coast, people still have tarps over their homes from Maria's damage, Mayor Maria "Mayita" Melendez told CNN.
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Those farms are now underwater, and thousands of people are stuck living under plastic tarps in camps for displaced people where disease is beginning to spread.
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Small circles of people took shelter from the noonday sun under plastic tarps, sipping on cups of café touba, a spiced coffee heavily dosed with sugar.
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For the SXU Gallery at St. Xavier University, I made a floor painting out of nine canvas tarps that covered the whole footprint of the gallery.
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The structures, built with rudimentary materials—rough-hewn timber, sun-bleached corrugated metal, thatch, tarps—were linked by makeshift bridges, drooping electrical wires, and laundry lines.
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Officials in New Hanover County, which includes Wilmington, have stockpiled enough food and water for 60,000 people for four days, along with more than 28,000 tarps.
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All of this is being observed by federal agents from the roof of the ICE building, so the occupiers have covered much of the camp in tarps.
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They fluctuate in size, but in the 20 years I've been in San Francisco, people have lived in shantytowns of tarps and mobile homes on Division Street.
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By Thursday afternoon, social media videos showed officers pushing their bikes through the encampment, toppling tents, tarps and camping chairs and sending protesters scrambling amid the chaos.
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The night before, 96 men had slept in the makeshift maze of cubicles Romero has fashioned in the dirt courtyard out of blue plastic tarps and blankets.
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Across the bay in San Francisco, Julia Strzesieski works for Cole Hardware, which has been selling goods like tarps and modern sandbags in advance of severe weather.
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Floating it out there, and how they mixed it using tarps, I was very impressed by that and the effort they went through to make it happen.
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The "fancy camps" are often separated from the rest of Black Rock City by a wall of RVs or a line of black tarps, according to Vox.
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The risk from rain and wind was particularly acute for the about 60,000 people with blue tarps on their homes, the aftereffects of Hurricane Maria last September.
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On Saturday, four of the backpackers decided to try to make their way back while the others set up tarps and tried to keep warm and dry.
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Wet floor signs were erected and the plastic tarps covering the bars were taken off, making the area look almost as if the weather had never happened.
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The data allowed officials to identify houses that needed roof tarps, as well as buildings that could serve as centers for the distribution of food and water.
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Those who want to leave are given aid packages containing tents, tarps, mosquito nets, bedding, tools for farming and home repair, cooking pots, seeds, and other goods.
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Here in Ciudad Juárez, they have been sleeping under plastic tarps in squalid encampments near the three main border bridges, enduring falling temperatures and bitterly cold rains.
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Nearby, the bodies of the dead and injured, some covered by orange tarps, lay on a broad sidewalk that was scattered with debris, including a child's stroller.
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A CNN investigation revealed that just before Christmas -- three months after the storm -- two-thirds of those requests went unfulfilled while 60,000 tarps were sitting in warehouses.
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However, the city never said when the mourning period would end and has been actively replacing the tarps when people take them down, the news station reported.
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Bronze Star reportedly beat out bids by over half a dozen other companies for the two contracts to supply 500,000 tarps and 60,85033 rolls of plastic sheeting.
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As of the CBC's report, the company was working to find a better long-term solution to the bird situation, but they'd put down tarps in the meantime.
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We used a large gas grill, which we borrowed from Sebastian's father, and we built a kind of makeshift outdoor kitchen with pallets, old tarps, and a trailer.
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He hung the halls of Wang's office with plastic tarps and painted hundreds of additional feathers, then spent the night in a frenzy, adding them to the dress.
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Securing sites can mean a number of things: putting tarps over waste pits, cleaning and removing contaminated equipment, shoring up petroleum tanks, or building barriers around the area.
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CarmaThis new startup in San Francisco has taken 400 vehicles, wrapped them in tarps covered in local street murals, and unleashed the rides to the car-sharing public.
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Perhaps even worse, for months the island's government allowed the dead to rot in tractor-trailers stashed in an empty parking lot, covered by tarps behind barbed wire.
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Video taken on the Syrian side of the border shows families clustered around blue tarps or lying on the earth, as soldiers stand guard behind the border fence.
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If not, it will join a few dozen other satellites stacked two-high and covered with black tarps inside a large storage room, until they're ready for launch.
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The cartoon characters were partly obscured with tarps after the yellow canary Tweety Pie became an unexpected symbol of secessionists, appearing on walls and T-shirts in Barcelona.
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But only for four days once, when a hurricane was approaching, did the guards take down the tarps that cover the fences, and allow prisoners to see it.
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FEMA claims that about 578,103 meals, 383,000 liters of water, 13,600 sheeting covers, 150 rolls of blue tarps and 30 generators were sent to the Caribbean this week.
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In St. Louis, where tarps covered the baseball field at Busch Stadium, the Cardinals' game was rained out on Wednesday, and Thursday's game was delayed by several hours.
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For many, that has meant bringing mattresses, tents and tarps into their yards to sleep, for fear of what aftershocks could do to their already damaged homes. Rep.
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While they wait in Mexico, migrants have had to weather difficult and dangerous conditions in encampments along the border, living under tents or tarps and using makeshift bathrooms.
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That one holds 40,3.43 tarps, according to Mike Feldmann, temporary roofing mission manager for the Army Corps of Engineers, who gave me a tour of the Carolina warehouse.
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The tarps were placed over the statues as a sign of mourning following the deaths of three people in connection with the "Unite the Right" rally in August.
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City officials say the tarps cost about $375 each and City Manager Maurice Jones testified that the city spends about $3,000 on each tarp, the news outlet reported.
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Though a year has passed since the rains receded, many of those displaced by the storms still live in shacks assembled from cardboard, wooden planks and plastic tarps.
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"The contracting issue came up with the food and now with the tarps," he added, referring to a conflict between celebrity chef José Andrés and FEMA over food contracts.
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On Wednesday, a rescue aircrew located debris from the sailboat, including six lifejackets, tarps, water jugs, a pair of shoes and a kayak known to belong to the family.
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Blue tarps and shabby tents with people sleeping in them line our route in the Downtown Eastside, where the wail of an ambulance siren is always around the corner.
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In the months after Maria, blue tarps on rooftops and dark streets at night became enduring images of the catastrophic 2017 hurricane season and the inadequacy of the response.
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United Nations agencies such as the World Food Program have been feeding them, while international and Bangladeshi charities have provided medical care, plastic tarps, cooking pots and other basics.
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Those returning must come to terms with an island that is still crippled, where power outages are frequent, businesses remain shuttered and hillsides are pocked with blue roof tarps.
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Thursday is market day, and we joined the meandering cows and throngs of locals, perusing the fresh fruits, vegetables and mounds of ginger piled atop tarps on the ground.
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The Moroccans, most of them seeking better job opportunities in Europe, crowded in one corner under makeshift tarps set up to protect them from crashing waves enveloping the deck.
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Many houses in Puerto Rico, including the home of Edwin Díaz in Las Piedras, are still covered with blue plastic tarps and awaiting repair from last year's storm damage.
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Their shelter was a tent of plastic tarps where they bathed with water stored in five-gallon paint buckets, ate food distributed by charities and slept under donated blankets.
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Mr. Long said FEMA maintains large supplies of food, bottled water, medical supplies, cots and tarps for roofs, all of which were put in place ahead of Hurricane Irma.
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To mourn the death of 32-year-old Heather Heyer in Charlottesville two weeks ago, the Virginia city covered two of its Confederate monuments with black tarps on Wednesday.
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Before the storm struck, FEMA had deployed more than 8 million bottles of water and meals, plus generators, blankets, tarps, and cots to North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia.
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Plastics are commonly treated with chemicals to change their properties, waterproofing them in products from raingear to camping gear and making them fire-resistant for firefighters' jackets and construction tarps.
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Meghan and Harry want to keep the prying public at bay at their Canadian home, going to extreme measures to make it happen ... including cameras and tarps along the property.
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Around 200 people, mostly families hoping to escape escalating violence inside the prison, now live outside in summer tents pitched on wooden planks that have been "winterized" via thin tarps.
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After white supremacists violently rallied in the city, Charlottesville, Virginia covered two of its statues with black tarps while a decision to remove them makes its way through the courts.
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Plywood, flashlights, batteries, tarps, and propane are flying off the shelves throughout south Florida, as the state braces for Hurricane Irma to make landfall sometime over the next few days.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads One does not often associate a walk in the park with experiencing contemporary art presented on security fences by way of large mesh tarps.
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These are the wasteland stretches with grey industrial blocs and good teriyaki and massive tarps welcoming BAD CREDIT without specifying what those with BAD CREDIT will be allowed to buy.
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He hoped that his brand "Faithai", inspired by a Swiss brand that makes bags from used truck tarps, can spur political debate without the deep divisions of the recent past.
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In both the fourth quarter and full year, sales of camp hammocks, backpacking tents, tent poles, tarps and other tent accessories all grew double digits, or up to 36 percent.
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It seemed to be the popular choice among the online ultralight obsessives, who drill holes in toothbrushes and swap tents for tarps in their crusade to shed every unnecessary ounce.
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Which was why, after nearly four hours of rain and tarps, the dominance of Kershaw and a parade of four Dodgers relievers, the Yankees were left bemoaning a missed opportunity.
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Smugglers hide migrants in the trunks of cars, stacked in the beds of pickup trucks and covered with tarps or even locked inside toolboxes in the beds of pickup trucks.
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Even if no branches breach the roof, tarps are handy for post-storm cleanup: Just pile the detritus on and drag it en masse to where it needs to go.
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Catholic Relief Services Donations to the faith-based group will help to provide shelter, water, tarps, tents, kitchen kits and other supplies to families affected by the storm, it said.
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She purchased ropes and tarps at hardware stores, asked places like U-Haul if they had extra boxes, and borrowed shopping carts from unhoused people who had one to spare.
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It now served as a shrine of sorts, its metal gates covered with posters and canvas tarps upon which people wrote notes urging faith, expressing sadness, and calling for courage.
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Squatters, homeless after a pre-earthquake housing crisis, have used high- and low-tech materials—tarps, plywood, aircraft cable—to turn its decks and towers into a cool suspended shantytown.
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Other closely cropped photographs creep right up to the surface of the poisonous centers, centering on telling details like the clips that tightly clamp the tarps to the buildings' walls.
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The crackdown worked: The small knots of plastic tarps and cardboard shanties that had dotted El Bordo vanished, as did small tent cities that had been set up in nearby plazas.
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"The tarps came in earlier than we expected and we had staff available today to cover up the monuments so that is what we did," said Joe Rice, Charlottesville communications coordinator.
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The homes were too badly damaged to return, and wherever there was enough space—an open field, the side of the road—a tent city of tarps had sprung to life.
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It's especially troubling considering the serious problem he dealt with while renovating — he removed the roof to build a second level, but a severe windstorm blew the tarps off the structure.
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While their exact purpose in this case is unclear, officials often place tarps over vessels "to conceal activity from both ground and overhead observation or in deception operations," the note said.
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But Vanessa Quiñones, a mapping analyst in Puerto Rico who delivers food to the needy, said her studies show there are some 80,000 tarps still covering unrepaired homes on the island.
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Support Surface artists often used handkerchiefs, gauze, tents, tarps and unstretched canvas to create works that hang on walls, unroll onto the floor, or sit on the ground like a sculpture.
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Thousands of blue tarps from the Federal Emergency Management Agency still cover homes across the island, a visible reminder that the recovery still isn't complete and another disaster could happen again.
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Puerto Rico seemed to be spared any heavy wind and rain, a huge relief on an island where blue tarps still cover some 30,000 homes nearly two years after Hurricane Maria.
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When the curfew lifts, residents head to food pantries and supermarkets before they open to beat the hours-long line for water, ready-to-eat meals and tarps to cover roofs.
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Adjacent is a new Swatch-Omega museum, now a skeleton of steel girders covered in plastic tarps and scaffolding, and just beyond is the construction site of a new Swatch headquarters.
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The Confederate statues of Lee and Stonewall Jackson, the lightning rod for the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, were shrouded until a judge ordered the tarps removed earlier this year.
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In some cases, they live under tarps held up by ropes that aren't strong enough to shield them against dropping winter temperatures and rain, which often means sleeping on wet blankets.
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But for more than 5,000 others, only colorful tents and tarps, some held up by only sticks and stones, stand between them and the elements, even as temperatures drop below freezing.
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They've got their own tarps in place; (they) went after the mayor to ask for help; (they) called FEMA and maintained contact with FEMA to get the systems that they provide.
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Facebook videos also show women clapping and cheering in front of a pile of supplies — boxes of food, water, baby supplies, tarps, and other critical resources — as the chopper started up.
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The mission manager blamed difficult working conditions and unsafe structures while, in November, FEMA fired a Florida company called Bronze Star, which had been hired to deliver tarps to the island.
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Several U.S. charities are supplying medical teams, tarps, radios, food, water and other relief supplies, and the The Grand Bahama Port Authority has set up the Grand Bahama Disaster Relief Fund.
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) had awarded $30 million in federal contracts to Bronze Star LLC to provide tarps and other materials to residents needing to temporarily patch their homes.
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At one clinic, powered by generators and shielded from the sun with plastic tarps, at least 40 doctors volunteer daily to treat demonstrators affected by dehydration, heat stroke, asthma, and other ailments.
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Burke, in her statement, said FEMA awarded a new contract to a different company for 475,000 blue tarps, and that the first delivery of those arrived on the island on Nov. 24.
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The pojangmacha was one of many that lined the street: big red tarps with strings of light bulbs, a cart full of fresh seafood and meat, and plastic tables scattered around it.
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More than a year after Hurricane Maria tore through Puerto Rico, the island is still struggling to recover, with some Puerto Rican families still living under temporary blue tarps instead of roofs.
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Dink watches on television at his office as the crowd of over 165,000 people at Churchill Downs sing "My Old Kentucky Home," huddled under tarps to shield themselves from the sudden cloudburst.
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Bronze Star told the AP it was unable to procure the tarps they'd been charged with supplying because their supplier was located in Houston, which was slammed by Hurricane Harvey in August.
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"This would be done by a standard practice of using tarps and waving them at the seals to the point where they turn around and go further down the beach," Dell'Osso explained.
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It will take months more to install temporary tarps on the roofs of tens of thousands of ruined houses and import more than 50,000 utility power poles and 6,500 miles of cable.
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The warren of underground spaces includes a random assortment of bleacher seats, tarps and piping, as well as a steel spiral staircase to nowhere, resting abandoned on its side in the trees.
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Good 360 is currently taking donations from both corporations and individuals, and is requesting water, personal care items, portable chargers, diapers, tarps, pillows, sheets, and blankets to help those impacted by Dorian.
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In Wilmington, one of North Carolina's most populous cities, residents lined up by the hundreds Tuesday for free food, water and tarps as the city had been effectively cut off by floodwaters.
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They shack up in crumbling homes patched together with tape and plastic tarps, and they huddle in dark, dank basements with no ventilation, where at least they believe they're safe from shelling.
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To supplement the rations of corn and beans provided by the United Nations, Mr. Mwenda started a business selling timber to fellow refugees who needed wood to mount tarps over their shacks.
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"That warehouse full of roofs is evidence that we've been able to overcome at least one part of that challenge," which was bringing tarps to the island, says Feldmann, the mission manager.
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Mike Feldmann, from the Army Corps, looks across that sea of 290,2000 tarps and tells me that this is a sign that supplies are here and work is happening in Puerto Rico.
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"They ran out of water and tarps quickly and it feels like they are hoarding the MRE's [meals ready to eat] because we might not have enough after this storm hits," Olive said.
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On July 19, surveillance footage from a local Walmart showed Laura and Tucci purchasing drain cleaner, tarps, bungee cords and work gloves used to cover up Rideout's murder, the Democrat and Chronicle reports.
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In the same span for Puerto Ricans, FEMA just delivered 1.6 million meals, 2.8 million liters of water, and about 5,53 tarps in the island, while approving only $6.2 million for Maria victims.
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On July 19, surveillance footage from a local Walmart showed Laura and Tucci purchasing drain cleaner, tarps, bungee cords and work gloves used to cover up Rideout's murder, the Democrat and Chronicle reports.
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Food, water and roof tarps were distributed to residents Sunday from fire stations and a ballpark while military assets were used to transport supplies, equipment and search and rescue personnel through affected areas.
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The makeshift settlements clogging the 214-mile road from Teknaf to Cox's Bazar are little more than shantytowns of tarps and blankets strung over ropes, meager protection against the season's torrential monsoon rains.
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The crews promptly set about clearing out a small section of the camp, working their way inward, and throwing dirty blankets and mattresses, discarded furniture, and tarps into a large container for trash.
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Save the Children has arrived in Palu and will focus on providing a safe place for children to play, as well as items to create temporary shelters, like plastic sheeting, ropes and tarps.
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In November, The Associated Press found that after Hurricane Maria, FEMA awarded more than $30 million in contracts for emergency tarps and plastic sheeting to a company that never delivered the needed supplies.
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Ponce Mayor Maria "Mayita" Melendez estimates damages in her town alone had been as much as $1 billion from Maria, and there are still people with tarps over their homes, she told CNN.
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On a helicopter trip on Thursday morning to Cidra, a small city an hour south of San Juan, the devastated landscape was speckled with homes that were without roofs and covered with tarps.
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"So when Maria hit Puerto Rico, tarps and plastic sheeting, we had none," said Reinaldo Colón, supervisor of FEMA's distribution center for the Caribbean, a large warehouse on the outskirts of San Juan.
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Homes with metal or flat roofs, and those made out of concrete, generally are ineligible for the program because of the difficulties of installing tarps on those structures, according to the Army Corps.
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"Unfortunately, this contract seems to be further evidence of systematic weakness in FEMA's contracting process," the letter says, citing another government contract that was canceled for failure to deliver emergency tarps in November.
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Inside the camps, soldiers and members of civilian vigilante groups have been accused of forcing people to pay for the privilege of setting up tents or leaky shelters made of tarps and grass.
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For the past several years, New Story—a housing charity based in San Francisco—has built over 150 homes there, replacing tarps and scrap metal shelters with houses that have proper roofs and floors.
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The AP reported that Bronze Star, which was established just months before Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, was awarded two contracts to provide 6003,000 tarps and 60,000 rolls of plastic sheeting on Oct. 10.
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Nine days after Harvey, FEMA had provided people in Houston with 25 million meals, 2740 million liters of water, and over 20,000 tarps while also approving $141.8 million in individual assistance to storm victims.
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In that same amount of time after Maria, FEMA just delivered 2000 million meals, 2.8 million liters of water, and about 5,000 tarps in the island, while approving only $6.2 million for Puerto Ricans.
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Jaylen Brown is in Bali doing tarps off and fanny pack on, doing the kind of nervous smile one does on vacation when someone has pushed you into something you aren't quite comfortable with.
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Prior to leaving the bakery, we covered all the equipment with tarps in case the roof leaked, sealed the doors and windows with sandbags to prevent flooding, shut the gas, and unplugged electric units.
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FEMA's 10-month period to provide emergency relief will end Saturday, but at least 5,000 Puerto Ricans still have no electricity and many homes still have temporary blue tarps provided by FEMA as roofing.
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When he asked some groups to provide departure kits — typically containing tarps and hygiene products like soap — for families living in the schools so they could return home, he claims he was roundly ignored.
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Federal Emergency Management Agency officials say that unusually tough conditions are forcing them to continue to focus on the emergency response phase across the battered island — potable water, roof tarps and other bare necessities.
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But tarps are also useful for anyone who has trees on their property, where falling boughs pose a constant threat to roofs — especially in winter, when heavy snows can snap weak or dead branches.
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Amy Rubin's set has transformed the Diamond Stage at the Pershing Square Signature Center into what feels like a limitless construction site, with ladders, tarps and a gaping hole cordoned off with yellow tape.
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It has been a month since Typhoon Faxai hit Japan, and some homes in Chiba prefecture outside Tokyo are still without power and many homes damaged during that storm are still under blue tarps.
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SEGUIN, Texas — More than 400 trailers packed with water, food, tarps and generators line a vacant airstrip in the farmland just northeast of San Antonio that has been transformed into a bustling logistics hub.
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A FEMA report reviewed by PBS Frontline shows that nine days after their respective storms, Texas and Florida had received twice as much water and four times the food and tarps as Puerto Rico.
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Pots of fried pork belly were on offer, and groups huddled underneath blue and yellow tarps, while others lay on blankets around the play equipment in Parque Serdan, a public park in the city's north.
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I stood amid acres of bare foundations with only the bolted down bases of toilets still in place, blue FEMA tarps flapping in the wind, the ruins of these anonymous houses indistinguishable from each other.
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This area's homes fared far better than those close to the river, and those with extra lumber, tarps, and rope are helping those with only the clothes on their backs get settled for the night.
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"We're seeing plastic tarps go out all over the islands, and that's extremely important because now you've got another tropical storm coming," said Ken Isaacs, vice president of programs for U.S. relief organization Samaritan's Purse.
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Yankees 10, Royals 1 KANSAS CITY, Mo. — It rained here Sunday morning, and blue tarps still covered the Kauffman Stadium bullpen mounds in early afternoon when Sonny Gray threw his first pitch for the Yankees.
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In the coming days, we joined volunteers pushing further and further east to cut-off settlements, driving in limited supplies of water, food, and tarps to communities that were left with practically nothing after Dorian.
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Federal officials commandeered the area in the far east of the island last fall as a staging ground, collecting the water and containers full of tarps to patch damaged and destroyed roofs in surrounding neighborhoods.
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FEMA has stockpiled 250 million liters of water and more than 24,2000 tarps, and is distributing them and other emergency supplies to towns across the island so they will be in place for the next disaster.
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The rain added to the misery of evacuees camped out in a Walmart parking lot in nearby Chico, where local residents donated freight pallets and tarps to help evacuees shelter from overnight temperatures just above freezing.
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North Carolina's governor declared a state of emergency on Wednesday, warning that the "dreadful storm … poses serious risks" for thousands of residents still waiting for tarps and other resources to help patch up their gaping homes.
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Okkervil River and Wolf Parade are back with unexpected new material, My Morning Jacket are pulling the tarps off decade-old demos; and younger bands like Modern Baseball and Twin Peaks are keeping the flame alive.
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Instead, Seth is going from one hardware store to another in search of plastic tarps, batteries and food as he braces for flooding in his hometown of Lake Jackson, Texas, about 60 miles south of Houston.
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Two blocks away, on a patch of garbage-strewn dirt within view of the dealership's spinning Mercedes logo, some 600 people live without electricity in shacks fashioned with boards, plastic tarps and sheets of corrugated aluminum.
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In the settlement near Zahle, residents pointed to tents with splintering wood and leaking roofs and complained that the camp had not received new tarps or wood from the UN or other NGOs for four years.
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They have set up a site through Go Fund Me. Yacht Aid Global has set up "Operation Topaz" to bring emergency supplies like food, tarps, hygiene kits and medicine to Grand Bahama and the Abaco Islands.
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They have set up a site through Go Fund Me. Yacht Aid Global has set up "Operation Topaz" to bring emergency supplies like food, tarps, hygiene kits and medicine to Grand Bahama and the Abaco Islands.
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I was able to sneak up to get a feel for the vibe and despite the furniture being covered in tarps, the lush greenery and sweeping views still offered a hint of why it's so popular.
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The Humanity First Disaster Response and Humanitarian Aid and Rescue Project teams use tarps to cover medical supplies and equipment after realizing that rain was coming through the ceiling of the health clinic in Cooper's Town.
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Carmen Hernandez and her family, who live in the mountain town of Morovis, waited 15 long months living under government-issued blue tarps and with no electricity before her "angels" of HEART 9/11 rebuilt her home.
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In an effort to put pressure on US border authorities, groups of men, women, and kids spent cold nights outside the threshold, sleeping under blue tarps to guard against the rain and keeping warm under donated blankets.
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Tucked between the clues are bits of environmental story: as you look around you'll spot plenty of cameras, silent figures behind two-way mirrors, and strange objects covered by tarps, that hint at the institute's real motivations.
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Workers at the Marquis Los Cabos hotel in San Jose del Cabo spent the last three days battening down the hatches — anchoring palm trees and using tarps to cover large windows that had all shattered during Odile.
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SAO PAULO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - On the fringes of Sao Paulo, hundreds of makeshift dwellings fashioned from discarded plywood, plastic tarps and rusted sheets of corrugated iron occupy a hillside protest camp for squatters demanding affordable housing.
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On the outskirts of Zahle, a town in Lebanon's Beqaa Valley, a pair of aid workers carrying clipboards and cell phones walk through a small refugee camp, home to 22013 makeshift shelters built from wood and tarps.
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The victimized trees are all at the back of the orchard, and Williams thinks that the perpetrators literally just put bins or tarps on the ground and shook the trees hard enough to knock the apples loose.
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Aerial photos of the farm on Wednesday showed that the authorities were focusing on a patch of land off a dirt road behind a home, where they erected several large tents and used tarps to collect dirt.
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These kits have a wide range of items, but most of the stuff in them are various kinds of knives, hatchets and machetes, stuff printed in camo colors, cheap tarps and tents, and standard first aid stuff.
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Two tremors last April and May killed 2000,000 people, injured more than 22,000 and damaged or destroyed more than 900,000 houses, forcing many to brave freezing temperatures living in temporary shelters made from tarps and corrugated iron sheets.
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Today it hosts some 2,500 refugees in three camps: Souda and Dipethe, both dusty warrens of tents and tarps in Chios city, and Vial, the island's official "hotspot," set amid olive groves a few miles west of town.
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In Puerto Rico, almost a year after Hurricane Maria, blackouts continue, blue tarps remain the only line of defense for thousands of houses, and too many families are still struggling to put food and water on their tables.
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By daybreak, they had strung up plastic tarps to shield them from the sun and rain, and they vowed to stay until the asylum seekers among them were permitted to step on American soil and petition for protection.
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The penniless migrants, some of the millions who have fled Venezuela's economic and social crisis, have been here more than a week, forced by city authorities to vacate a makeshift slum of plastic tarps a few miles away.
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Hurricanes Charley, Frances and Jeanne blasted Fort Pierce within two months, causing so much infrastructure damage that large swaths of the city were covered in blue tarps for a year afterwards, said former Fort Pierce Mayor Bob Benton.
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In St. Thomas, not far from where cruise ships have long unloaded vacationers, tarps and trash cans now collect dripping water from the ceiling of the emergency room, which has to evacuate any critical patients to the mainland.
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The owner of the only hardware store in the small town of Hana on the east side of Maui said he was determined to stay open so residents could buy tarps, screws or other supplies for their homes.
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In some ways, the Jungle was well organized; you could buy three naan for a euro at one of its makeshift restaurants, get a haircut, or worship in a church or a mosque constructed from plywood and tarps.
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Like other mayors across storm-ravaged Puerto Rico, Perez has been working from early morning until late at night since Hurricane Maria struck the island, managing public shelters, delivering food and water to residents and handing out tarps.
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Then, after Irma struck the US Virgin Islands on September 6, FEMA moved much of its stockpile of water, meals, cots, tarps and roof sheeting from a warehouse in Puerto Rico to the US Virgin Islands, the report states.
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It ended after around 230 migrants broke out of the detention center and marched in protest to the main port of this vacation destination, where many took shelter under slatternly tarps and pup tents on a vast concrete expanse.
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About 90 percent of the leaves are taken care of this way, he told us, while leaves in the park's harder-to-reach nooks, crannies and pathways are tended to by volunteers and workers armed with rakes and tarps.
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Docking just beyond Willemstad's Queen Emma Bridge — the only floating pedestrian pontoon bridge in the world — the wooden boats are connected to mainland stalls, shaded by colorful tarps, where vendors hawk bananas, avocados, papayas and red and yellowtail snapper.
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The teams will wear 210 uniforms, parking will be free, and even the tarps on "Mount Davis" — the distant seats high above the center-field structure built to lure back Al Davis's Raiders in the 25.22s — will be gone.
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The crew of the ship lined up for photos on the deck behind bales of cocaine wrapped in black tarps, collected from 14 smuggling boats, including, presumably, Payan's, and worth, according to the Coast Guard, more than $400 million.
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In Tuscany, Italy: At summer's start, families and friends might dam up small portions of Italian rivers that run through the Apuan Alps and the Apennine Mountains or use tarps to create pools, sometimes constructing small huts beside them.
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In Rob Stephenson's photo series of the same name, Rockaway is also sea-swept: a land of trees and tarps rearranged by the wind, buildings shrouded in fog, boats lying on their side by the side of the road.
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency is sending thousands of meals, tarps and liters of water to Randolph Air Force Base near San Antonio ahead of Hurricane Harvey's arrival on the Texas Gulf Coast, NBC Dallas-Fort Worth reported Thursday.
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While an agency spokesman told The AP that FEMA has properly vetted companies helping in the recovery effort, Bronze Star, a small family company started in August, has never before been awarded a government contract or supplied plastic tarps.
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Loose debris, signs, plants and tarps are taken down from around the zoo; staff members stock up on supplies for all of the animals and make their meals in advance; and generators are prepared in case of a power outage.
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What it does best is provide immediate assistance—often in the form of blankets, hygiene kits, or temporary shelter—and as incredibly destructive as the earthquake was, there wasn't half a billion dollars of tarps and hygiene kits to hand out.
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In fact, those rubbery and rugged truck tarps—weatherproof polyvinyl sheets used by shipping companies to secure their clients' inventory on a truck bed and keep it from getting blown all over the freeway—have come to define the brand.
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And we used to go here, the road would just end and there would be tarps hanging everywhere and checkpoints because the other side is where the opposition-held areas would begin and now, all of that is just gone.
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Michael Byrne, Puerto Rico's FEMA coordination officer, told the Associated Press that at least 60,000 so-called "blue roofs," the tarps that temporarily provide shelter to buildings that lost more-permanent tops in the storm, are needed in Puerto Rico.
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If the weather is nice — as it was one clear, moonless night this summer when Ms. Hamburger and Mr. Bockley joined them, spreading their sleeping bags out in a field — they don't bother with tarps and simply sleep under the stars.
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"Everything is gone in Venezuela," said Abel Calderon, a 32-year-old Warao who is acting as spokesman for the impromptu community now living under tarps, tents and other makeshift lodgings around the city, some of them under a highway overpass.
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Boyer said he was grateful for wooden pallets and plastic tarps donated by local residents to evacuees to help keep their tents off the ground and dry when the rains come, though he said the showers would still make a mess.
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Even a glancing blow from a low-level hurricane could be damaging to the US territory, where the incomplete recovery from Hurricanes Irma and Maria is symbolized by the homes still covered with blue tarps that were placed in 2017.
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I tied the tarps and gave them shelter; I knelt with them on sodden backpacks halfway down remote trails, singing to distract them from the thunder and lightning crashing around us, while the hairs on our arms stood at attention.
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Putting up tarps, removing wet drywall and carpeting to prevent mold, boarding up openings, installing fencing where necessary, and securing your belongings is essential in the recovery process, according to Carl Gross, vice president & CAO of Globe Midwest Adjuster International.
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"Firefighters are proceeding with extreme caution, and doing their best to make a bad situation better for the families that are suffering," Timothy McConnell, the superintendent of the Fire Department, said in a news conference while tarps were being transported.
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The judge ordered the tarps to be taken off the statues of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson within 15 days of the court order being entered, which is likely to happen this week, WHSV TV-85033 reported on Tuesday.
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Rex Hohlbein, the founder of Facing Homelessness, a nonprofit organization that provides homeless people in Seattle with things they may need, has been handing out fuel, heaters, tents and tarps to those who are at risk in the frigid weather.
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Blue tarps or sturdier plastic sheets installed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers are still widely visible around the island, though FEMA and local government agencies say they can&apost say for certain how many roofs still need to be replaced.
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FEMA, which was accepting initial applications for assistance through Monday, has had a visible presence on the island, distributing 126,753 blue tarps and coordinating the installation of sturdier, but still temporary, blue plastic sheets by the Corps of Engineers on nearly 60,000 homes.
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It is lush, but there's also a makeshift, do-it-yourself quality to the chandelier, the stuffed cheetah that looks as if it's stalking the central figure, and the odd, conical, green plastic tarps that appear here and there in the image.
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This is not a space that allows you to be particularly messy, since it's more thought of as an apartment than a studio, but using plastic tarps to cover the tabletops and the floor came in handy when engaging with wet processes.
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For months, she and her 21-year-old son, Demarcus, have lived with seven other people in a single driveway amid a tangle of blue tarps, cracked trees, and collapsed homes, along with signs for roof fixing, mold eradication, and property-buying services.
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Contributing Opinion Writer MEXICO CITY — When I was in Tijuana last month, a heavy rainstorm poured down on the Benito Juárez sports park, where more than 6,000 Central American migrants were crowded into tents, under tarps, or simply sleeping on the mud.
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Upon arriving at the first motel, Mr. Sharkey "rolled two enormous T. Anthony suitcases out of this 30-foot Penske truck and started wrapping mattresses in plastic tarps and making the beds," said the photographer Douglas Friedman, the road trip's raison d'être.
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An investigation by Politico found that FEMA provided roughly a third of the meals, half as much water and a small fraction of tarps to Puerto Rico than it provided to Texas after Hurricane Harvey in the first nine days after the storm.
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The structure is a modern take on the tipi, a cone made out of reinforced 2x4s and a circular roof for a stovepipe, with 20-by-20 foot terra-proof thick tarps that hold in warm air and ventilation doors in the top and bottom.
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Aerial photographs of the Holmby Hills property — located down the street from the iconic Playboy Mansion and Jay-Z and Beyonce's $88-million place — show ATF agents and Los Angeles police officers standing over hundreds of firearms piled up on tarps in the driveway.
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"The harm to defendants from removing the tarps and not being able to shield them until the matter goes to trial is outweighed by the harm to plaintiffs and the general public in not being able to view or enjoy them," Judge Moore wrote.
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Father and daughter seem to be camping — there are tarps as well as a fire pit, though no car or other people in sight — but then the girl sits on a plastic milk crate and the two settle into the site they call home.
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Some migrants are lucky to find housing in shelters, hotels, or rooms for rent, but for more than 240,232 others, only tents and tarps, some held up by only sticks and stones, stand between them and the elements, even as temperatures drop below freezing.
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In the months after the hurricanes, much of the funding from federal agencies, including the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Department of Housing and Urban Development, went toward emergency work, like removing debris, providing tarps for leaking roofs and restoring power to the island.
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Two attorneys specializing in federal contracts told me there was no compelling reason for the Army Corps to slow its work installing tarps during that dispute, which involved a company, Venegas, claiming that the government had unlawfully given work to a non-Puerto Rican competitor.
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After dinner, the union members gather for a roll call and a discussion, usually in the local Quechua language, of the day's political news from La Paz, before setting down to rest on the asphalt or bare earth under skimpy tarps or tree branches.
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Some migrants are lucky to find housing in shelters, hotels, or rooms for rent, but for more than 703,270 others, only colorful tents and tarps, some held up by only sticks and stones, stand between them and the elements, even as temperatures drop below freezing.
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The decomposing corpses are strewn among 7,000 pounds of propane tanks, tarps, car batteries, fertilizers, pesticides, banned rodenticides from Mexico, and other trash, plus 4,83 pounds of irrigation line blanketing an abandoned 20,000 plant illegal marijuana grow site in northeastern California's Lassen National Forest.
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Royal Caribbean plans to use more of its ships to do the same in the coming days, and also said it's sending container ships loaded with "47,000 bottles of water, 362 generators, 250 tarps, 25,000 square feet of plywood, 55,400 diapers and 7,500 pounds of pet food."
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After the tiny Montana company Whitefish Energy was fired over a scandalous $300 million contract, the Army Corps of Engineers is scrambling to patch together an obsolete grid while "Operation Blue Roof" has helped install around 20,000 tarps to keep the rain out of shattered houses.
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In Greenwood, a crossroads town of 73 people just north of Marianna, Guard troops and volunteers were handing out supplies — bags of ice, adult diapers and tarps were in high demand — to people in a line of cars outside the small town hall on Saturday afternoon.
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They usually arrived in the predawn hours, before the creatures emerged from their slumber, and climbed into one of the observation towers they had constructed on the colonies: stilted plywood platforms 10 feet high, covered by tarps or burlap sacks with small openings for microphones and cameras.
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A newly formed two-man firm that won a $30 million contract from the federal government to obtain tarps for the Hurricane Maria recovery effort failed to provide anything, the AP reported Tuesday, leaving tens of thousands of Puerto Ricans roofless for months as the government continues to scramble.
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In a recent essay for the New York Times, former detainee Mansoor Adayfi described knowing the prison was near water, yet never being allowed to see it until a hurricane hit in 2014, which caused the military to take down the tarps that blocked views of the Caribbean Sea.
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Those hurricanes and their total estimated damage estimated by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) National Centers for Environmental Information are: In the response phase, FEMA provided more than 6 million meals, more than 1 million gallons of bottled water, more than 18,000 tarps for affected homes and businesses.
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This boutique hotel with outposts in Beverly Hills and New York City is as whimsical as the area itself, fashioned like a glamorous Italian cruise liner where every detail feels nautically-inspired, from porthole windows, to glossy walnut wood, deck paneling, and sail-like tarps separating each balcony.
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In this way his most relevant counterpart from the United States may be Robert Ryman, though while the American emphasized his paintings' unorthodox supports by purging color, Mr. Viallat soaks his tarps and parasols with brushy strokes in a bright, Matissean range of blues and yellows, pinks and whites.
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As far as insurance is concerned, it's best to take as many photos as possible of the initial damage, and to do what you can to prevent further damage (covering ceiling holes with tarps, for example) since insurance plans might not cover the losses sustained after a storm.
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You can't really be prepared for going and meeting the homeless kids in Jamaica and seeing their living conditions and the scars on their bodies and the bullets that are still lodged in their bodies and the tarps that they live under because their little wood shack was set on fire.
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The cabana staff carried chairs out to the beach, set up tarps and tables, and carried the day's first round of drinks to members sitting poolside at this oceanfront summer colony that lies on an oddly deserted stretch of federal seashore near the western tip of the Rockaway Peninsula in Queens.
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Loose tarps cover about half of the structure, but Luis Oscar Morales Martinez, 36, and his wife stay awake all night when it rains, he says, holding broomsticks against the blue plastic; they are human tent poles, trying to keep water from spilling into the single bedroom where they all sleep.
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Security forces shot dead at least one person and injured others in clashes over aid delivery in the hard-hit port town of Les Cayes this week, while there have been instances of road blocks and looting in areas where trucks carrying food, hygiene kits, tarps, water and medical supplies pass through.
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In market squares surrounded by Sana'a's ancient rammed-earth towers, sellers—mostly men sucking wads of the stimulant leaf qat, but sometimes also women wearing body-swathing sitara dresses in psychedelic patterns—presided over piles of fruits and vegetables laid out on tarps, skinning prickly pears for customers to eat on the spot.
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The color in question is orange, because police blamed the shooting on a missing orange safety cap on the boy's toy gun; people in Cleveland and around the world have donated orange objects of all kinds — tarps, food wrappers, a set of plastic vampire teeth — that are now displayed around the gallery.
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The third would focus on the classic job of the cabana boy, those blue-shirted beach butlers — three of the club's 15 cabana staffers are female — who hustle around the club setting up tables and tarps, ferrying food and drinks, carrying supplies from members' cars to their cabanas and from cabanas out to the beach.
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Video footage smuggled out of the North reveals these early markets as primitive gatherings on the muddy outskirts of large cities or else down discreet alleyways, merchants squatting or standing above their wares spread over tarps on the ground or gathered in homely sacks that could be readily snatched up should an official arrive.
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After pulling on tall rubber boots and applying the day's first layer of bug repellent, four groggy campers followed Hempton from their tents and tarps down a muddy path to the mouth of a tributary of the Zabalo River, an inky-black channel roughly the width of a basketball court that cuts some 30 miles eastward across northeast Ecuador.
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Our guest room was heaped with mosquito nets, tarps, sleeping bags, bed rolls, tin dishes, flats of water, a monstrous medical kit containing everything from malaria prophylaxis to Tums, copies of our passports, visas and this thing called a "Carnet de Passages," a very official-looking customs document that allows you to cross borders in your own vehicle.
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More on this... Many in Puerto Rico still under tarps as storm threat looms Puerto Rico issues new data on Hurricane Maria deaths Puerto Rico institute sues health department to obtain data But as they begin the painstaking work of rebuilding their lives in the Sunshine State, the influx of new residents has also commanded the attention of Florida's officeholders and candidates.
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While your piece and the Slate article imply that we only handed out tarps and hygiene kits, it fails to account for our incredible accomplishments, like providing 70% of the funds needed for the Haiti's first cholera vaccine; investing $5.5 million to help construct Mirebalais University Hospital; or the $10 million we provided to help build the new hospital in Jacmel.
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