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With Hurricane Rita now a full-blown Category 5 storm, with winds over 155 mph heading toward the Texas coast, few are taking the danger lightly. The city of Galveston, built on a barrier island just eight feet above sea level, ordered its first-ever mandatory evacuation Wednesday and communities to the north, including Clear Lake, home to NASA, quickly decided to send their residents packing too. Houston called for people in low-lying bayous areas east of the city to leave immediately and shut down the school system citywide. The city's hospital complex, which flooded during Tropical Storm...
...Although the storm is expected to hit the coast at Port Lavaca, between Corpus Christi and Galveston, the National Weather Service in Galveston warned that Rita could be a so-called "perfect storm", inundating Galveston and parts of Houston, including possibly downtown. Galveston residents started voluntarily evacuating Monday, a full five days before the storm was expected to hit. Wednesday, it became mandatory. Mindful of the problems in New Orleans, the city had buses available Wednesday morning to carry people out of the city. Early in the week, Governor Rick Perry recalled the Texas National Guard as well as Texas...
Gross also noted that students have organized peer advising for the visiting students from Tulane, Loyola, and Xavier Universities and that Phillips Brooks House Association will expand its “alternative Spring Break” to include travelling to the Gulf Coast to help with reconstruction...
...found it most surprising that there was so little help in the evacuation effort from the state and local government,” Blendon said. “Most people replied that they received their help from the National Guard or the Coast Guard. If you were writing about 9/11, you’d be writing about the local fire and police departments, but they fell apart in New Orleans...
...both homeland security and counter-terrorism [adviser], this trip, which was already scheduled way in advance, went forward," Perino said. Perino said Townsend had delegated Katrina duties to Deputy Assistant to the President for Homeland Security Ken Rapuano, who had "been engaged from well before the storm hit the coast." Still, Perino said, Townsend stayed personally involved in the response: "She was certainly engaged - I should say strongly engaged - up through the Friday night and then went on her previously-scheduled trip to fulfill her counter-terrorism responsibilities, but received updates and participated in the response efforts during her travel...