Hurricane Emily - Volunteers help victims of Hurricane Emily (KRIS-TV Corpus Christi)

Volunteers help victims of Hurricane Emily (KRIS-TV Corpus Christi)
Now that Hurricane Emily has come and gone, a volunteer group is heading to Mexico to help the victims of the storm.

Hurricane Emily spares Belize! (The San Pedro Sun)
F or days Hurricane Emily threatened the Belizean coastline. Although Emily did not make landfall on Belize, it made significant damage on places like Grenada, Jamaica, and the Yucatan Peninsula, especially in Cozumel and Cancun.

Hurricane Emily dies; Franklin is born (The Buffalo News)
MIAMI - There is no end to it: Even as Hurricane Emily died Thursday, Tropical Storm Franklin was born near the Bahamas. The sixth tropical storm of the young hurricane season formed in the Atlantic Ocean east of Eleuthera.

Surviving Hurricane Emily (Rexburg Standard Journal)
REXBURG - The weather was perfect, the water the clearest Dana Miller had ever seen it and the diving was great. So when all further dives were canceled Miller was confused. "They told us a hurricane was two days away," he says. "But I thought the weather was perfect. The water had never been clearer.

Hurricane Emily fails to prevent students' long-awaited and earned trip to Mexico (Fort Madison Daily Democrat)
A group of Fort Madison High School students started fund-raising for an educational trip to Mexico last November. They went to local businesses to request donations, held 50/50 raffles and sold enchiladas.

Hurricane Emily fizzles, triggers flooding in northern Mexico (Chicago Sun-Times)
MEXICO CITY-- Hurricane Emily fizzled to a tropical depression as it moved inland Thursday, but still threatening heavy rains and flooding in northern Mexico.

Downgraded hurricane Emily drenches Mexico, downs power lines (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Downgraded to a tropical storm, former Hurricane Emily was weakening quickly as it moved inland over northeastern Mexico Thursday with flood-threatening rains, after it walloped the coast with 200 kilometers (125 miles) per hour winds.

Oil: Price falls as Hurricane Emily eases (The New Zealand Herald)
Oil prices dropped on Monday as Hurricane Emily, which had shut in most of Mexico's crude oil production, lost strength. US light, sweet crude oil futures CLc1 settled 77 cents lower at US$57.32 a barrel, while London Brent crude settled 62 cents weaker at US$56.99.

Local fields survive Hurricane Emily (Brownsville Herald)
Fields and other sporting facilities in Brownsville appear to have survived Hurricane Emily unscathed. Despite winds of up to 50 mph and two inches of rain, local fields and parks were able to avoid major and potentially expensive damages.

Hurricane Emily takes toll on sea turtles (The Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! News)
When Hurricane Emily tore through the Yucutan Peninsula last weekend, it destroyed nearly all the eggs that have been laid so far this season by endangered sea turtles on the white sand beach of Xcacel.