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Also Try Evacuation Helping Hurricane Victims Hurricane Katrina Hurricane and Disaster Preparation Past Hurricanes News -09-22-05 Gridlock as Masses Flee (BBC News) "Heavy traffic and shortages of food and fuel are hampering the mass evacuation of a vast stretch of the US Gulf Coast." "More than one million people are trying to leave before Hurricane Rita, a Category Five storm, makes landfall." "Rita is set to reach land late on Friday or early on Saturday. Rita could be the most intense storm ever to hit Texas." 9-05 -09-23-05 New Orleans Levee Breeched Again (San Diego Union-Tribune) "Hurricane Rita's wind and rain breached one of New Orleans' battered levees Friday and sent water gushing into the already-devastated Ninth Ward just days after the impoverished neighborhood was pumped dry." 9-05 -09-23-05 Rita Threatens Oil Industry (San Diego Union-Tribune) "Rita threatened dozens of refineries and chemical plants along the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast that represent a quarter of the nation's oil refining capacity. Environmentalists warned of the risk of a toxic spill, and business analysts said Rita could cause already-high gasoline prices to rise to as much as $4 a gallon." 9-05 -09-23-05 Rita Weakens to Category 3 (ABC News) "Rita weakened during the day to a Category 3 hurricane, down from a fearsome Category 5 with 175 mph winds on Wednesday. It was expected to come ashore early Saturday along the upper Texas-Louisiana coast on a course that could spare Houston and nearby Galveston a direct hit. "But it could plow instead into the oil and chemical centers of Beaumont and Port Arthur, about 75 miles east of Houston." 9-05 -09-24-05 Evacuees Collide (MSNBC News) "The Texas evacuees have a little bit of a disadvantage, because in a lot of cases they are still on the highway and they are having to travel a lot farther to find available hotels. And as they left Texas, the storm has shifted. Now, in some cases, they are headed into the projected path, which is something a lot of them didn’t count on." 9-05 -09-24-05 Evacuees Urged Not to Return Now (CNN News) "Hurricane Rita pummeled east Texas and the Louisiana coast Saturday, battering communities with floods and intense winds. But residents were relieved the once-dreaded storm proved far less fierce and deadly than Katrina." "After the storm passed, authorities pleaded with the roughly 3 million evacuees not to hurry home too soon, fearing more chaos." 9-05 -09-24-05 Rita Hits Landfall (MSNBC News) "Hurricane Rita plowed into the Gulf Coast early Saturday, lashing Texas and Louisiana with driving rain, threatening to flood low-lying regions and knocking power out to half a million people as transformers exploded in the pre-dawn sky." 9-05 -09-24-05 Rita Kicks Louisiana (CNN News) "Emergency workers in southwestern Louisiana began rescue operations Saturday by getting the first helicopters off the ground since Hurricane Rita barreled ashore hours earlier." "Sheets of rain from Hurricane Rita drenched New Orleans Saturday, flowing over and through damaged levees and leaving parts of the city's 9th Ward under 8 feet of water." 9-05 -09-24-05 Rita Shows Evacuation Limits (CBS News) "The 14-hour lines of traffic fleeing Houston — complete with cars that ran out of gas — show that four years after the Sept. 11 attacks, it is difficult to evacuate a major metropolitan area." 9-05 -09-24-05 Rita's Damage (CNN News) "Towns near where Hurricane Rita made landfall have had all but a handful of buildings destroyed, including nearly all homes in Cameron, Holly Beach and Creole, officials said Sunday." 9-05 -09-24-05 Texas Declared "Major Disaster" (CNN News) "On Saturday, during a trip to his home state to assess Rita's damage, President Bush declared a “major disaster” in Texas after Hurricane Rita roared into the southeast part of the state." "A White House statement issued Saturday evening said federal funding will be available to state and eligible local governments and some private nonprofit groups in all 254 Texas counties for debris removal and emergency protection." "The statement said assistance can include grants for temporary housing and home repairs, low-cost loans to cover uninsured property losses, and other disaster relief." 9-05 -09-26-05 Bush Tries Enterprise Zones Again (Bloomberg.com) "President George W. Bush's main proposal for reviving the storm-stricken Gulf Coast has a history of failing to deliver on the promise of prosperity." "The Gulf Opportunity Zone that Bush outlined in a national address from New Orleans on Sept. 15 is the latest version of a Reagan-era idea for using tax breaks and other incentives to revitalize blighted urban areas. Backers of enterprise zones -- mainly Republicans, though they were also supported by Democratic President Bill Clinton -- argue that jobs and economic growth will flow into such areas." "In the two decades since such initiatives have come into widespread use, researchers have found little evidence they work very well. Critics say the main beneficiaries often aren't the people the zones are designed to aid, but businesses that end up with tax incentives for investments they would have made anyway." 9-05 -09-27-05 Bush Considering Military for Leadership in Domestic Disasters (BBC News) "President George W Bush is mulling plans to give the Pentagon direct legal responsibility for dealing with 'catastrophic' situations, according to his press secretary." "That would require new legislation and would effectively sideline the four-year-old Department of Homeland Security." 9-05 -09-27-05 Damage to Small Towns Almost Total (MSNBC News) "While much of Texas and Louisiana dodged the worst of Hurricane Rita, the damage to some small, rural towns was virtually complete — and the storm was being blamed on new deaths long after it moved away." 9-05 -09-27-05 Help Slow in Coming - Again (ABC News) "Nearly four days after Hurricane Rita hit, many of the storm's sweltering victims along the Texas Gulf Coast were still waiting for electricity, gasoline, water and other relief Tuesday, prompting one top emergency official to complain that people are 'living like cavemen.' " "In the hard-hit refinery towns of Port Arthur and Beaumont, crews struggled to cross debris-clogged streets to deliver generators and water to people stranded by Rita. They predicted it could be a month before power is restored, and said water and sewer systems could not function until more generators arrived." "Red tape was also blamed for the delays." "John Owens, emergency management coordinator and deputy police chief in the town of 57,000 [Port Arthur], said pleas for state and federal relief were met with requests for paperwork." 9-05 -09-30-05 Anger with the Red Cross (MSNBC News) "Never before has the Red Cross been called on to do so much for so many. And Americans have opened up their pocketbooks like never before, donating more than $1 billion to the Red Cross." "But among some evacuees — and volunteers on the ground — there is anger." " 'When we get back to headquarters, I think I'm going to turn in my Red Cross card,' says volunteer Janie Duncan, 'because I'm ashamed. I'm ashamed.' " "On Oct. 5, Oregon defends its Death with Dignity Act. It allows doctors to prescribe a lethal dose to terminally ill patients, who can use it to end their own lives." 9-05 -News on Rita (Google News) Provides comprehensive news on Hurricane Rita. 9-05 -Rita News (ABC News) Provides comprehensive news. 9-05 -Rita Storm Tracker (MSNBC News) Provides a chart showing Rita's path. 9-05 09-28-05 Local Officials: FEMA's Response to Rita Inadequate (ABC News) "Saying they were caught off-guard by the number of people in need, FEMA officials closed a relief center early on Wednesday after some of the hundreds of hurricane victims in line began fainting in triple-digit heat." 9-05 09-28-05 Texas Emergency Hotline Outsourced to India (ABC News) "As Hurricane Rita roared towards them, more than 300 people called the local emergency number broadcast all around Nacogdoches County in East Texas. What they didn't know was that the operators on the other end of the phone were 7,000 miles away in India." 9-05 09-28-05 Texas Emergency Hotline Outsourced to India (CNN News) "Four days after Hurricane Rita roared ashore along the Texas-Louisiana state line, officials are pleading for essentials such as shelter, electricity, water and gas." "Amid near-record high temperatures, floodwaters as high as 15 feet in some areas receded across the largely agricultural region, revealing livestock carcasses littering the countryside. Live cattle roamed free throughout the region, looking for food or water." 9-05 Papers -09-18-05 Tourists in Florida Flee Rita (MSNBC News) "Thousands of tourists jammed the highways Sunday after they were told to evacuate the lower Florida Keys because Tropical Storm Rita developed over the Bahamas and moved toward the vulnerable, low-lying island chain." 9-05 -09-19-05 Tracking Rita (NOAA.gov) Provides weather maps that are tracking the movement and intensity of Rita. 9-05

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