Hurricane Katrina
The five -- a man, a woman and three children -- apparently were overcome by carbon monoxide from a generator they were using after the hurricane knocked out the electricity over the weekend, authorities said. The children's aunt discovered the bodies after going to check on the group.
Rita roared ashore Saturday morning, slamming the refinery towns of Beaumont and Port Arthur, Texas, as well as Lake Charles, La., after an epic evacuation that emptied out a large swath of coastline and saved countless lives. Some 3 million people fled from Rita's path after seeing what Katrina did to New Orleans a month ago.
As of Sunday night, only two deaths had been blamed directly on Rita.
"As bad as it could have been, we came out of this in pretty good shape," said Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who called the absence of widespread fatalities "miraculous."
Hard-hit towns along the Texas-Louisiana coast began to pick up the pieces today: Rescuers pushed their way into once-inaccessible......
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