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A handful of local restaurants opened their doors today despite countywide evacuation orders, serving lunch and dinner to the defiant Todd Yates / Caller-Times Issac Flores, server at Water Street Seafood Co. pushes through other staff members to deliver a tray of food Thursday, as he and other staff members who did not evacuate will keep the restaurant open as long as it has staff to operate. Todd Yates / Caller-Times David Homan of Corpus Christi picks up his order of food at the Executive Surf Club one of the few business to stay open in the downtown area...

Order to evacuate entire county went against advice Sunday, July 24, 2005 By JEFF AMY and BILL FINCH Staff Reporters By calling for all of Mobile County to flee during Hurricane Dennis, local officials went against the prevailing wisdom of hurricane planners nationwide and disregarded federally sponsored evacuation guidance adopted by county emergency management officials five years ago. "Run from the water, hide from the wind," is the phrase long used by the National Hurricane Center to sum up its advice on evacuations. That means people who live in areas that might be flooded by storm surge should get out,...