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...Continental Airlines, based in Houston, offered Katrina evacuees one-way tickets anywhere in the country but 22-year-old Robin Miller and her family couldn't take the offer because they didn't all have valid IDs. Instead, the Miller family planned to take a Greyhound bus to Atlanta. As the storm headed more westerly, some decided to chance yet another storm. Ronald Mills, a 49-year-old New Orleans truck driver who rescued about 200 people by flat boat, said he plans to stick out Rita. He was staying at a hotel in Brenham, Texas, and had applied...
...Most of my relatives, including parents, a sister, two brothers and a number of cousins, aunts and uncles and their families, live in Galveston County and Houston. Many of them have been stuck on various Houston-area arteries since early this morning, fleeing the threat of Hurricane Rita. In more than two hours at one point, they'd moved less than 2 miles. "We're not moving at all. People are getting out of their cars and walking around, walking their dogs," says my sister, Kerry, 37, who is driving mom's white Mazda Tribute. "Men are getting...
...Mobile phone service is patchy. It's hard for those in Houston to reach each other, or even call outside the storm area. My brother Matt, 34, has resorted to texting, which still seems to be working OK. All day, I've relayed messages to and from relatives in Houston. At first, they had no fixed idea of where to go. Flights out of the city's two airports had been cancelled by this morning, which meant they couldn't get here as planned. I spent the morning trying to find hotel rooms anywhere in the state for them...
...Only my 77-year-old aunt and her 81-year-old husband are holding out. Despite repeated rounds of cajoling, hollering and begging, the pair refuses to leave their house in Montgomery County, just north of Houston, even though there's been a call for elderly people to evacuate. "I've talked to my neighbors and to security and everyone says it'll be windy and we'll get some rain, but that's all," insists Peggy Nordstrom. "We're going to be fine...
...parents, too, initially were stubborn. They agreed to leave their house on Galveston Bay, which is just 13 feet above sea level, but planned to ride out the storm at Kerry's house in Houston. Brothers Matt and Michael spent Wednesday at my parents' house, helping move furniture and valuables to the second floor, boarding up windows and clearing the deck of anything that could become a dangerous projectile in 175 mph winds. As a child, I remember hiding out in the bathroom during Hurricane Alicia in 1983. When the eye passed over, we ran outside to a spooky, greenish...