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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...
...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...
...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 for a job at the Bluebell Ice Cream Factory. "I think I'm safe." It's a calculation a lot of people are making today...
...share of natural disasters for TIME, from tornadoes in Oklahoma City to, most recently, Hurricane Katrina. This week the weather came closer to home, as much of her family lives near the Texas coast. She filed this report on their struggle to get out of the way of Hurricane Rita...
...production and 66 percent of natural gas. Oil production has been limited by damages to four refineries, which are not expected to be fully operational until next year. Pipeline damage has been harder to assess since divers and boats are a limited resource and now will be sidelined as Rita moves through the area. And remember, dress in layers...