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Updated: 10:53 PM Sep 21, 2008
Ike Evacuees On Their Way Home
More than 1,600 evacuees from Hurricane Ike who have been housed in North Texas will start returning to their homes along the Gulf Coast on Monday. Posted: 10:53 PM Sep 21, 2008Reporter: Associated Press |
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FORT WORTH, Texas -- More than 1,600 evacuees from Hurricane Ike who have been housed in North Texas will start returning to their homes along the Gulf Coast on Monday.
A City of Fort Worth spokeswoman says buses will pick up the South Texas residents from shelters in Tarrant, Hood, Johnson and Parker counties. Most of the Fort Worth-area shelters will be deactivated.
Storm evacuees will be returning to the Beaumont, Baytown and Houston areas.
More than one million people evacuated the Texas coast. State officials say more than half of some 37,000 evacuees in shelters at the height of Ike's aftermath were gone as of Saturday, and about 175 shelters remained open.
More than 439,000 families had registered for FEMA assistance in the wake of Ike as of Saturday, and about 9,300 were staying in government-funded hotel rooms.
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When you think the storm is over it's just beginning for others.
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It is great that evacuees are finally going to be able to see their homes. But, what will all those people whose homes have been destroyed or are too damaged to live in do ? Shelters are closing and they can't live in some of those homes. What are people to do?
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I sure this will make the Aggies happy. Now they can fill up the hotels with rich Aggies so they can come to the games and watch teams beat them like a rented mule.
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