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...when we return to Washington, the White House isn?t saying. Originally, officials said they expected to return on Sunday but there?s now talk that we could stay on the road through Monday or Tuesday to allow Bush a chance to inspect the damage from Rita. White House officials are still awaiting damage assessments from Rita and are keeping an eye on the likely flooding to come...
George Bush has become a hurricane hunter. Like those pilots who fly into the storm, Bush has been criss-crossing the country looking for the best ways to show that he?s offering a competent and compassionate response to Hurricanes Rita and Katrina. Yesterday, he cancelled a trip to Texas at the last minute, flying straight to Colorado where he could visit the military?s Northern Command and follow the progress of Rita from there. Apparently the word didn?t reach the rest of the staff so a hundred reporters, including this one, went on to Texas anyway. Bush spoke...
...Crescent City. Nagin's angry calls to "get off your asses" may have shamed the federal government into action, but many of his broadcasts since then-most notably, his controversial decision to let 180,000 residents and business owners back into New Orleans this week, before the approaching Hurricane Rita led him to reconsider-haven't been as well received. His tall, movie star-handsome swagger seems rattled as he limits his public appearances and complains, as he did to a group of state legislators this week, that he's "getting more criticism than God knows...
...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...
...lawn was covered with dead seagulls and tree branches. One of the giant live oak trees in our front yard had toppled, missing the house by inches. We knew the storm was starting again when we heard the wind. But Alicia was only a Category 3 storm. When Rita was upgraded to a Cat 5 this morning, everyone decided to abandon ship...