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...dogs, pretzels, and candy apples. “It’s a fun menu for a fun night,” said Martin T. Breslin, HUDS’ director for culinary operations. Students also flocked to carts dispensing fried dough and cotton candy, but many lamented the dreary weather and closed dining halls. “Rain is a little disappointing—my food is wet,” Andrea L. Daniel ’09 said. “It’s really annoying that they took the food away from the dining hall. I just...
...brother Michael's house is flooding. He called around 7:45 a.m., asking us to check the weather report. Michael and his wife, Shannon - who's five months pregnant - lost power and water during Ike. They woke up this morning to find water lapping at their garage, and he wanted to know how much higher the water was expected to rise. Unfortunately, the answer is a lot. The seven bayous that run through and around Houston are swollen, and the rain is still coming down. (See photos of Hurricane Ike here...
...McCain has admitted his humanness and his mistakes. I like goodness, mercy, honor, faithfulness, doing the right thing and, in McCain?s case, being tough enough to weather the troubles sure to face him as President. None of these qualities guarantee success, but they do provide the foundations for sound decisions. Malcolm Koch, Waldport, Oregon...
...Caribbean FIERCE WEATHER Four storms in as many weeks have battered the Caribbean, spurring repeated mass evacuations and a climbing death toll. In Haiti, where areas of most of the nation's provinces are underwater, the storms have left an estimated 1,000 people dead and millions without food, water and shelter. In Cuba few deaths have been reported, but 2.6 million people--a quarter of the nation's population--sought refuge from Ike. Cuba's government has predicted damage in the billions of dollars...
...National Weather Service now projects that Ike, which has just skirted across the Caribbean and is situated atop Cuba's western coast, is most likely bound for Texas, with a possible landfall near Galveston later this week. But even the agency's advisory Tuesday morning warned that such forecasts can be terribly wrong. "Right now, anyone who lives along the Texas-Louisiana coast needs to be prepared for the potential of a major hurricane," warns Walt Zaleski, meteorologist at the National Weather Service's Fort Worth, Texas, office. Ike is expected to gain strength from the Gulf of Mexico...