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...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 Allison in 2001, is now protected by huge floodgates, which are being lowered Friday, according to Ann Brimberry...
...glass to withstand only a Category 3 storm, orange neon Do Not Enter signs are now posted on the doors. Across town at the Astrodome, also unsafe because of its glass room, families sit on piles of suitcases, waiting for yet-another transfer to yet-another safe zone. Houston city officials, mindful of the chaotic scenes from the 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...
...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...
...study was certainly an accurate representation of the evacuees in Houston,” said Erin Weltzien, a research associate at KFF, noting that she does not think results would have differed significantly if more of the victims had been interviewed...
Forty-four percent reported that they now want to permanently relocate, with most opting to stay in Houston...