The recent news on food-borne disease has been both good and bad.

ECONOMIST: Food poisoning

"All those reports pointed out there was good reason to be optimistic about the future and their faith is being borne out by the improvement in our performance, " he said.

BBC: The service is on track to beat its response targets for May

Elevating generators and pumps is a good idea but enclosing elevated foundations that might be hit by waves or wave-borne debris can cause problems.

WSJ: Hurricanes offer similar lessons for builders