MySA.com: Editorials: "Editorial: Rita's rage dies out, but the lesson lingers
Web Posted: 10/06/2005 12:00 AM CDT
San Antonio Express-News
As Hurricane Rita raged toward land two weeks ago, millions of motorists hit the road, fleeing one threat only to encounter another.
Clogged with traffic, the freeways posed a different kind of danger, this one man-made. Drivers snaked along the roads, bumper to bumper, their gas and patience dwindling in the brutal heat. About 30 people died in Houston alone, most while trying to flee, according to the Houston Chronicle.
Texas officials were almost universally praised for their reaction to the hurricane, both before and after. But that reaction presented a cruel irony. While government officials were almost casual in their response to Katrina three weeks earlier, their Texas counterparts acted more forcefully, issuing a call to evacuate the area in the path of the hurricane."
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