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COPYRIGHT 2005 South Florida Sun-Sentinal
Byline: Jon Burstein
DETROIT _ A band of thunderstorms in 2000 flooded thousands of homes in the suburbs but caused no reported problems in the Motor City.
State emergency managers kept asking their counterparts in Detroit if "they were sure that no damage had occurred in the city," said Anthony Katarsky, assistant commander of the state police Emergency Management Division. "Their response was that they had received no calls about damage as a result of the storm from city residents."
But once the Federal Emergency Management Agency included Detroit in the disaster declaration for the Sept. 10-11...
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