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Discuss “Students from Texas narrowly escape Rita”

As the Gulf Coast began to recover from the disaster wrought by Hurricane Katrina a month ago, progress was threatened by another powerful hurricane, Rita. Rita was expected to hit Houston, Texas on Saturday September 24, and exacerbate the flooding of New Orleans.

However, because of the lessons that Katrina provided to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and local governments, the damage from Rita across both Texas and Louisiana was minimal.

People living in New Orleans and other areas prone to hurricanes are accustomed to coping with extreme weather. Ryan Sakauye, a first-year from New Orleans, says that ?in the past, major hurricanes were always supposed to hit, but at the last moment they always turned away.? New Orleans was...

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