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Small, rural towns hit hardest by Rita
(AP)
Updated: 2005-09-27 21:45
In New Orleans, the official reopening of the city was back on track as the
mayor welcomed residents back to the Algiers neighborhood, where they found a
curfew, limited services and no critical care hospital services.
The Army Corps of Engineers continued pumping water from the Ninth Ward back
into the Industrial Canal. It expects to have the water out by the weekend, said
Mitch Frazier, an Army Corps spokesman.
President Bush planned to get a personal report Tuesday with a visit to
Beaumont and Lake Charles, La., about 55 miles to the east, traveling between
the two cities by helicopter and getting an aerial view of the damage from the
Saturday storm that socked the region with winds topping 120 mph.
If the power knocked out by the storm and oppressive
heat weren't enough, it was the ravenous mosquitoes invading their storm-damaged
home north of Vidor, Texas, that convinced Harry Smith, his wife and two teenage
boys to get out.
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