Reply #23: CNN updates on Texas oil refineries and Houston status & Louisiana map [View All]

[Nothing Without Hope]

A very long string of updates, all time-stamped. Parts of the 9th Ward of New Orleans are under 8 feet of water. Houston looks like it got off rather easily so far. Much more in these continuing updates about local damage, planning for evacuee returns, and so on. Cameron Parish, Louisiana, which got the worst of the landfall, is a catastrophic mess. (I'm seeing it called "county," but don't Louisianans call them "parishes"?)(For reference, I'll post a Louisiana map below.)

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/24/news.update.sat
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Oil refineries, chemical plants along Houston ship channel report no significant damage

BAYTOWN, Texas (CNN) -- The largest oil refinery in the United States and about 200 other refineries and chemical plants located along the channel connecting the port of Houston and the Gulf of Mexico weathered Hurricane Rita without major damage, according to an official who monitors the region.

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--CNN correspondent Randi Kaye in Baytown, Texas contributed to this report. (Posted: 9:46 a.m. {Sat})

Houston sighs with relief as Rita passes

HOUSTON (CNN) -- With Hurricane Rita's eye passing well to the east, Houston escaped the major flooding that was feared earlier in the week when mandatory evacuations were ordered, according to local officials.

"We have come out reasonably well," Harris County Judge Robert Eckels told CNN.

Houston Mayor Bill White said there are tree branches down and some power outages, but no major flooding in his city.

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{posted 8:58 am CST Sat.}