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#1 2005-09-23 07:18:39
- Palomar
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Re: Fire aboard H. Rita evacuee bus -- 20 dead
And now they're projecting that Hurricane Rita might only side-swipe the Galveston-Houston region. A lot of misery in this evacuation...which might ultimately not have been necessary.
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#2 2005-09-23 07:39:14
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Re: Fire aboard H. Rita evacuee bus -- 20 dead
Yes how terible this fire was and is. The article state that these were the elderly with oxygen support equipment. This allow the fire to spread quickly though out the bus.
This link At least 24 dead in evacuee bus explosion; Fire engulfs vehicle carrying elderly from Houston area nursing home Has a little more data as well as some very graphic mages of the bus scene.
Many more articles talk of the bumper to bumper traffic accros 8 lanes and the use of the devided side to allow traffic to get out of the area.
The highway systems are just not designed for such a mass exidous...
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#3 2005-09-23 09:57:45
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Re: Fire aboard H. Rita evacuee bus -- 20 dead
Escaping Houston has not been easy for the nearly 2 million people along the Texas and Louisiana coasts. Which have been urged to get out of the way of Rita. This has set off an unprecedented exodus that brought traffic to a standstill across the Houston metropolitan area. Where cars overheated and ran out of gas in 10- and 12-hour traffic jams. Some drivers gave up and turned around and went home.
“It can’t get much worse, 100 yards an hour,” fumed Willie Bayer, 70. “It’s frustrating bumper-to-bumper.”
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#4 2005-09-23 14:50:17
- John Creighton
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Re: Fire aboard H. Rita evacuee bus -- 20 dead
I think only 10% of the city was under mandatory evacuation. If I was in an area that was not likely to flood, in a good solid structure and had lots of supplies it is very likely I would of chose to stay rather then put up with that traffic.
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