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...dark Saturday night in a parking lot in Lake Charles, La. about 12 hours after Hurricane Rita tore through here, and Columbus, Ohio Fire Department Capt. Jack Reall is briefing his 35-person FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Team. "What you see is what you got. We have no idea what's going to happen," except that the promised roof to sleep under isn't going to work out. Nearby, McNeese State University's Burton Coliseum, most recently used to house those affected by Hurricane Katrina, is dark, with standing water and no working bathrooms, and is strewn with personal...
...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 Allison in 2001, is now protected...
...MILLENNIUM FORCE Ohio This isn't the world's fastest ride anymore, but it may still be the scariest. The agonizingly slow crawl to the apex, overlooking Lake Erie, will have you begging for the 149-km/h drop...
...challengers have shown, no country has a monopoly on thrills. Here are some of our favorites, from Ohio to Taichung. Millennium Force Ohio This isn't the world's fastest ride anymore, but it may still be the scariest. The agonizingly slow crawl to the apex, overlooking Lake Erie, will have you begging for the 149-km/h drop. Leap The Dips Pennsylvania Located in Lakemont Park, Altoona, Leap the Dips was built in 1902. It's the oldest roller coaster Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic style magazine...
...wettest of the Lost wannabes is NBC's Surface (Mondays, 8 p.m. E.T.), in which a new species of giant (mostly unseen) creatures appears in the world's seas. Idealistic oceanographer Laura Daughtery (Lake Bell) bumps into a mystery beast during a deep-sea bathysphere dive. A boy (Carter Jenkins) finds a translucent egg on the beach and puts it in his aquarium, not knowing it's sea-monster caviar. And there's a government plot to hide the truth, led by a scientist (Rade Sherbedgia) with a Dracula accent. (Because, of course, real Americans don't do cover...