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Millions who fled Rita told to halt return
(AP)
Updated: 2005-09-25 11:54
In any other hurricane season, Rita might have seemed devastating. It knocked
out power for more than 1 million customers, sparked fires across the hurricane
zone and swamped Louisiana shoreline towns with a 15-foot storm surge that
required daring boat and helicopter rescues of hundreds of people.
But the new storm came in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, with its 1,000-plus
death toll, cataclysmic flooding of New Orleans and staggering destruction in
Mississippi. By contrast, Rita spared Houston, New Orleans and other major
cities a direct hit. By Saturday evening, the only reported death was in
Mississippi, where one person was killed by a tornado that spun off the remains
of the hurricane.
"The damage is not as serious as we had expected it to
be," said R. David Paulison, acting director of the Federal Emergency Management
Agency. "The evacuations worked."
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