Local (Hurricane Emily) fields survive Hurricane Emily (Brownsville Herald)

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 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.

Living through Hurricane Emily a scary experience (Northwestern)
Editor's Note: Mary Sue Jurgella is a 2005 graduate of Stevens Point Area Senior High. She is working a summer job in Mexico and was in the area hit by Hurricane Emily last week. Kelly MacDonald, her SPASH classmate, is working with her.

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.

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.

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 residents see Hurricane Emily (Borger News-Herald)
Even though most people can only imagine what it would be like to experience a hurricane, local residents Todd and Peggy Harris got to see it firsthand when Hurricane Emily made its way toward Cancun, Mexico last weekend.

RIGZONE - Science of Oil Rigs: Surviving Gulf Storms (Rigzone)
HOUSTON - Just a day before hurricane Emily pounded into the Mexican coastline, BP's recovery team finished righting Thunder Horse, the world's newest and biggest oil and gas platform, located 150 miles southeast of New Orleans in the Gulf of Mexico.

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 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.