Iowa's bridges still draw crowds (Chicago Sun-Times)
WINTERSET, Iowa -- Nobody bats an eye when a tourist heavy with cameras appears along the road in this tiny rural town.
Bridges still bring visitors to Winterset (The Courier News)
Each fall, an annual Covered Bridge Festival draws crowds here, and on a typical summer day, more than 150 people stop by the county's tourism office for help finding the bridges, scattered between flat fields and wide, unpaved roads.
Trim Inflation Now (GoldSeek.com)
Yahoo! News Search Results for flat roofingIt's been a random walk through the data fields this week. The headlines say that inflation rose a mere 0.1% in August. The markets liked that. But digging deeper, the data is not as sanguine.
Don't wait to fix or replace leaking roof (Reno Gazette-Journal)
For many homeowners, a new roof can be the single-most expensive non-elective home improvement one makes. So before deciding to buy a new roof, you may want to take steps to prolong the life of the one you've got.
Lessons from Katrina (The Columbian)
Gulfport's Memorial Hospital had a plan and then Hurricane Katrina hit the Mississippi coast. All of a sudden, the hospital's emergency plan was showing more leaks than its Katrina-clobbered roof.