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Hurricane Rita: Houston and Texas coast evacuates
With 140 miles per hour winds to hit the south Texas coast, Houston continues the process of evacuating by land and air.
The exodus created bumper-to-bumper traffic inland and a jammed Houston International Airport, which is expected to close noon Friday.
Nearly two million residents in Texas and Louisiana were under orders to evacuate to avoid a deadly repeat of Katrina.
Drivers ran out of gas in 14-hour traffic jams or looked in vain for a place to stay as hotels hundreds of miles away filled up.
While Rita’s path is expected to hit a section of coastline with the US’s largest concentration of oil refineries, production are being shut down their production.
The prospects of measurable rain in New Orleans from the outer bands of hurricane Rita raises the possibilities that the patched-up levees could give way and cause a new round of flooding.
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