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To: tejek who wrote (252585)	9/24/2005 9:19:38 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572484

"I am afraid you don't know me very well." Good point. I have made several assumptions, probably unjustified. In that, I stepped over the line and I apologize. "Well you can take the boy out of TX but you can't take the bravado out of a Texan" Of course not. Bravado, after all, is part of what Texas is about.

To: tejek who wrote (252585)	9/24/2005 10:17:38 AM
From: Road Walker	Respond to of 1572484

AUSTIN -- Emergency coordinators were flying blind Saturday morning, with communications knocked out between state leaders and much of the area hit by Hurricane Rita. Steve McCraw, head of the state office of Homeland Security, said during a 7 a.m. briefing that many county judges remained without satellite phones, and said communications with some of the area chemical plants may have been lost. Electricity and phone service were out in much of the affected area, primarily the Beaumont-Port Arthur area. Leaders still had no reports on any, or damage estimates, he said. But as soon as it is safe to do so - probably by 10 or 11 a.m. - helicopters will spread out across the area with supplies, he said. The plan was to put one helicopter in the county seat of every county impacted by the storm and begin aerial surveillance as soon as the winds die down. "As anticipated, we don’t have the communications we want with the local elected officials and the local law enforcement officers and firefighters," McCraw said. "The communications went down, the electricity went down, the phone lines went down." He said search and rescue operations would begin as soon as it was safe to do so. Helicopters stood ready with security personnel, ice, water and satellite phones to bring to county leaders. He said those helicopters will spread out to anywhere from 18 to 80 counties, depending on the extent of damage from Rita. Asked if it was a mistake not to have gotten the satellite phones to county leaders before the storm hit, McCraw said: "Obviously, everything didn’t go perfectly. ... Afterwards, we’ll do an assessment of what we’ve learned." He said there were no reports of chemical spills or other threats to the environment, although workers from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality were to began an aerial survey and water testing. One family that weathered the storm in Kountze - just north of Beaumont - reported losing power at about 10 p.m. Friday and said the wind and rain pounded on their tin roof throughout the night. But by 8 a.m. Saturday, they said the worst appeared to be over, and that their house remained standing. Contacted by cell phone, a woman there said they had not yet ventured out to fully assess the damage. There were several elderly people in the home, including a blind man. McCraw said the situation remains dangerous, especially in terms of the powerful tornadoes potentially generated by Hurricane Rita. "It can still be devastating,” he said. """""""""""""""""""""""""" Registration Site - dfw.com