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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: greenspirit who wrote (270350)	7/5/2002 1:38:03 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

What did Bush know about this flood and when did he know it? Why wasn't the dam heighth raised as an anonymous caller proposed to Jim Hightower last year? Who lived in those million dollar homes and is it true that they refused to contribute to Bush's election campaign? Who benefits when Bush declares this a disaster area except his carpetbagging cronies in the insurance and real estate biz. 30 inches of rain??????......since Saturday???????....Bush must've called Jerry Falwell AND Pat Robertson. Record Texas floods force more evacuations From the National Desk Published 7/5/2002 10:14 AM View printer-friendly version CASTROVILLE, Texas, July 5 (UPI) -- Thousands more people were evacuated along fast-rising south central Texas rivers Friday as rain continued to pound the flood-ravaged region. Several thousand people were evacuated in an overnight operation in the towns of Castroville and LaCoste, west of San Antonio, where the normally placid Medina River was rising to record levels. "Seventy percent of Castroville was successfully evacuated last night, as of about 1 this morning," emergency official Frank Perkins said. "About 90 percent of LaCoste was evacuated." Medina County officials said their concern was that the river might flow over the top of Medina Dam. The dam was built in 1915 and water has never poured over the top of the dam before. Water is spilling over the top of Canyon Dam upstream from the town of New Braunfels for the first time in its 45-year history, but Mayor Adam Cork said the evacuation of hundreds of people along the river Thursday has apparently done the job. "Right now it looks like our evacuations from have been OK," Cork said. "We might contact a few more people, but we've evacuated out to the 100-year flood plain, so we ought to be okay." Flooding was widespread around Canyon Dam, where water was pouring over the spillway, around the sides of the dam and into neighborhoods containing million-dollar vacation homes built high above Canyon Lake. "All I can say to people who live there is, get your furniture out as quickly as possible," Comal County Judge Danny Scheel said Friday. Heavy rains pounded parts of south central Texas again Friday, some places northwest of San Antonio have received more than 30 inches of rain since Saturday night. President Bush Thursday declared 10 counties in the region disaster areas. Seven people have been killed in the flooding, all of them washed into normally placid rivers and creeks by rushing water. Copyright © 2002 United Press International