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Rita: Hit & Miss
Hurricane Rita hit the Gulf Coast early Saturday morning but our area missed a direct hit. Unfortunately areas to the East of us like Beaumont, TX and Lake Charles, LA took the brunt of Rita's force. The most we had to deal with was high winds and short power outages and again in both cases we were lucky. About 600,000 were reported without electricity and estimates were set at possibly a week to restore power.
After Katrina it was better to be safe than sorry but I think alot of our news coverage created some panic forcing folks to flee through impossibly crowded highways that became more like parking lots with traffic moving at impossibly slow paces (for instance, 8 hours to travel 10 miles). Add to that gas shortages (correction, no gas to be found) and it really was an impossible situation. We were far enough inland that we weren't concerned with storm surges so after watching the coverage of the packed freeways and reports of Rita changing directions, we decided to hunker down and wait it out. All is well.
Thank you to everyone who left comments and sent emails expressing their concern. I felt the love. It's appreciated and returned.
sweetened by Honey on September 24, 2005 04:42 PM
poured into: General
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