NO FEMA AID YET FOR MILITARY FAMILY - Bloomberg.com: U.S.

Bloomberg.com: U.S.:

"Sept. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Destiny Beverly now plays with borrowed toys. The 6-year-old lost her own dolls when Hurricane Katrina ravaged her family's apartment in Gulfport, Mississippi.

With her father serving in the U.S. Army in Iraq, Destiny and her brother, sister and mother fled to a friend's home as the storm raged. A pecan tree blew through the roof, just missing the huddled family.

``The kids were howling, terrified,'' says Destiny's mother, Shannyake, 29. ``I was praying for our lives.''

After four days struggling to find food and water, and avoid roving looters, the family managed to take shelter with relatives in Jackson, the state capital. There, they face a new ordeal: Two weeks after Katrina struck on Aug. 29, federal disaster aid has yet to reach the Beverlys and other evacuees in Jackson."