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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...
...entire Gulf region, fresh from the devastation of Katrina, is concerned about Rita, which became a Category 1 hurricane Tuesday morning, with winds up to 95 mph, and could intensify into a Category 3 as it moves across the Gulf. The storm is expected to travel westward toward Texas, and authorities in Galveston have already called for a voluntary evacuation of the city beginning Tuesday, several days before Rita is expected...
...this summer, finally “truly healthy” for the first time, Herrmann—who went 5-1 with a 3.09 ERA last year—was hitting 93 MPH on the radar...
...like a freshly painted fire hydrant. It was lunch time by now, and a young American named Bobby Reynolds was being served. Reynolds was game enough, going for broke at every opportunity, getting as much pace as he could muster behind every ball. But Nadal sent Reynolds 125 mph serves back at his feet, and showed a delicate touch from everywhere on the court. Despite those pants, this guy?s got style. The match ended before lunch...
...That precarious balancing act becomes even more difficult when a storm like Katrina, a Category 4 hurricane, rolls into town packing winds up to 140 mph. Ivan, was a smaller Category 3 storm with lower winds and waves. Damage estimates from Katrina are as high as $26 billion, and oil production in the Gulf will certainly be down, at least in the short term. Yesterday, oil futures spiked to $70.80 before easing to $67.90 by the end of the day, and all of this comes at a time when consumers are already paying high prices at the pump...