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...Superdome and the New Orleans convention center, are offering evacuees a get-out-of-town pass on buses, with Fort Chaffee, Arkansas, as the destination. For some evacuees from New Orleans, like Diane Pierce, a former Tulane University Hospital housekeeper, it's almost too much. She sat on a downtown Houston sidewalk Tuesday, all her possessions in a shopping cart, after accepting three bus tickets back to Baton Rouge for herself and two children, aged 10 and 13. "I'm getting out of Texas," she said...
...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...
...starting to get used to [not playing], but this is the first season since I was six years old that I haven’t played football,” said Tracy, once a safety and now crunching numbers at Wells Fargo in downtown Boston...
...being made available at entry checkpoints for those who have not had one in the past 10 years. Situation reports, issued daily by the city now, seem pretty grim too, warning that all schools are closed, recovery of the dead goes on, water service is lacking even in downtown, and there are 14 new oil spills...
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