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 Rita's Damage to Refineries Is Limited

 

 Hurricane havoc: The costs to come

 

 EchoStar Rushes to Sign Up Customers in Battered Gulf

 

 Hurricane Pets - Pets are finding happy endings, Shuma isn't so lucky (excellent read)

 

 Katrina's Ancillary Damage: Environmentalists Strike Out

 

 Possible tropical development in the Caribbean

 

 

 Go Back To Gulf Coast On Your Own Dime (Risks of Living on the Gulf Coast)

 Go Back To Gulf Coast On Your Own Dime (Risks of Living on the Gulf Coast)

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 Hurricane evacuation lessons

 

 Highways to Hell

 

 Rita Causes Record Damage To Oil Rigs (New Estimates...Damage Not Bad Huh?)  -- The media again played down and rushed the story that the oil rigs were not badly damaged...yadda...yadda...move along etc...this article tells another story.

"We dodged a bullet" might become the most overused incorrect phrase of the year.

 upside down platform pics here:

 http://www.resourceinvestor.com/pebble.asp?relid=13201

 

 Truth Detector: WHITE LIBERAL RACISTS BELIEVED RUMORS

 

 

Man bites hurricane

 

 Volunteers Rescue Truckloads Of Katrina Pets

 

Vigorous tropical wave