Pack Your Bags, Gulf States
As the next hurricane barrels down on Texas and Louisiana at a monsterous catagory 5, evacuations have already begun. The south has learned a bitter lesson from Katrina…and as Rita whirls in, most people decided to leave rather than risk what could happen again. And the government’s trying to make up the slack for Katrina.
Forecasters said Rita could be the most intense hurricane on record ever to hit Texas, and easily one of the most powerful ever to plow into the U.S. mainland. Category 5 is the highest on the scale, and only three Category 5 hurricanes are known to have hit the U.S. mainland — most recently, Andrew, which smashed South Florida in 1992.
Government officials eager to show they had learned their lessons from the sluggish response to Katrina sent in hundreds of buses to evacuate the poor, moved out hospital and nursing home patients, dispatched truckloads of water, ice and ready-made meals, and put rescue and medical teams on standby. An Army general in Texas was told to be ready to assume control of a military task force in Rita’s wake.
Comment by Daniel
# April 4, 2008,
stop saying grose things about this! It’s your terrible way of thinking! Normal people don’t care about stuff like that
Comment by Dawn
# April 6, 2008,
Yeah!! (Wrings hands)! Nice blog you have here. I’ve enjoyed much reading your last posts. Keep it that way.
Comment by skilzzz133
# April 9, 2008,
I agree with everybody else: awesome story.! Much food for thought… It really made my day. Thank you.