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Richmond American Homes is building 50 single-family homes on half-acre sites at Stonewall Manor in Triangle. The Amherst model, with 2,800 square feet, is priced from $419,950.
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Exhibit: Covering Katrina By the time Hurricane Irene had finished dumping buckets over Queens, the media was full-throatedly debating whether they had devoted too much of their attention to the storm. Some folks argued that the storm received wall-to-wall coverage because, unlike previous hurricanes, it posed an inconvenience to media-saturated cities like D.C. and New York. Still others countered that the media didn't cover the storm enough, that it switched to navel-gazing just in time to miss Irene beat the living daylights out of Vermont. While the jury's still out on Irene coverage, it gave itself a happy verdict on Hurricane Katrina. To review what the media believe they did right before, during, and after the worst storm in history, the Newseum has created an exhibit that "chronicles the dramatic tale of the media's reporting of the killer storm." To Sept. 18 at the Newseum, 555 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. Phone: 888/639-7386. Web: newseum.org.
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Paterson, N.J., firefighters suit up for a possible rescue on the city's Bridge Street as the swollen Passaic River floods on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2011. (AP Photo/Rich Schultz)
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An air tanker drops fire retardant on a hot spot in an area destroyed by a wildfire at Possum Kingdom Lake, Texas, on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2011. (AP Photo/L.M. Otero)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (center) and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (left) speak Aug. 24 in Mineral, Va., with businessman B.J. Singh after his store was damaged by last week's earthquake. The distribution of disaster-relief funds has caused political backlash in Virginia.
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North Koreans and Chinese travel agents enjoy a buffet during the 21-hour trial cruise on the refurbished Japanese-built cargo ship. (Associated Press)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Vermont National Guardsmen load ready-to-eat meals and water for residents of Fair Haven on Wednesday. Vermont Emergency Management officials said all but one of the state's communities left isolated by flooding had been reached by ground crews as of Wednesday.
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A bridge on Route 73 in Rochester, Vt., lies in the river in this aerial view on Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2011. All access to the town was cut off by flooding from the rainy remnants of Hurricane Irene in a deluge that took inland areas of New England and upstate New York by surprise with its ferocity. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)
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Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano (left) takes a helicopter tour Tuesday of hurricane damage to North Carolina with Gov. Beverly Perdue (center) and Sen. Kay R. Hagan. Also Tuesday, she said she wants the National Guard to stay on the U.S.-Mexico border. (Associated Press)
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Neighborhood children come to see Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley (left) as he talks with Glenn Colby on Tuesday about the damage to his home from Hurricane Irene along Whiskey Creek Lane in Hollywood, Md. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Maryland Gov, Martin O'Malley listens Tuesday to Mike and Beth Adams describe the damage to their home from Hurricane Irene along Whiskey Creek Lane in Hollywood, Md. "One of the things that you have to see to believe is the sheer volume of big, heavy trees that have been knocked down," Mr. O'Malley said. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Mary Brogi walks away from her damaged home in Port Republic, Md., after a tree crashed through the roof during Hurricane Irene. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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CUSTOMERS: Residents wait outside the grocery store in Rochester, Vt., inaccessible since Tropical Storm Irene hit. It is one of many small towns in the state to receive supplies Tuesday via a National Guard airlift. (Associated Press)
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A tattered American flag recovered from World Trade Center debris is part of the Smithsonian Institution's upcoming special display of 9/11 "relics," positioned on tables rather than from behind exhibit glass. (National Museum of American History)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS A woman and her husband in Kenya wait for food distribution from Oxfam on Tuesday. The United Nations says tens of thousands of people have died of starvation in the drought-plagued Horn of Africa.
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A broken bed lies in the mud in Gombe village in the Bulambuli district of Uganda, about 175 miles from the capital, Kampala, on Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2011. Landslides killed at least 40 people on Monday, including children buried in their homes, officials said. (AP Photo/Stephen Wandera)
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President Obama listens to an update on the status of Hurricane Irene at Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) headquarters in Washington on Aug. 27, 2011. He is joined by Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano (left) and FEMA director Craig Fugate (right). (Associated Press)
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BURLINGTON FREE PRESS VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS North Main Street in Waterbury, Vt., was underwater, and almost 50,000 Vermont utility customers were without power Monday in the wake of Tropical Storm Irene. Hundreds of roads were closed and a number of bridges were destroyed by the storm. Irene dumped 11 inches of rain on the state.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Richard Filipelli removes a grill from the debris of his home in East Haven, Conn. on Monday after Tropical Storm Irene blew through over the weekend. Downgraded from a hurricane, Irene still packed a punch.
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Greg Austin of Avon, N.C. tries to save a large fish that was washed out of a local pond during the storm surge from Hurricane Irene, in Avon, N.C., Monday, Aug. 29, 2011. (AP Photo/The News & Observer, Chuck Liddy)
