Hurricane reads & links

Reading in the Post-Katrina, Post-Rita Hurricane season:

• From the Pittsburgh Business Times, Hurricanes remind businesses of need to review disaster recovery plans.
• From the Houston Chronicle, Tropical Storm Wilma may head for Gulf Coast¹.
• From Click2Houston.com, Number Of Hurricane-Related Job Losses Jumps To 438,000.
• From the Houston Chronicle, poll results, Most say they’d evacuate again¹. “Half of Houston-area residents fled Hurricane Rita as it approached last month, and almost two-thirds would evacuate next time a major storm threatened, according to a Houston Chronicle/KHOU-TV Channel 11 poll.”
• From the Houston Chronicle, RITA’S AFTERMATH “Officials offer choke-point fixes —
  Evacuation route backups could be eased by building bypasses and more lanes, they say.”¹
• From the Houston Chronicle, MOVE IT! Mixed views on fleeing Rita with several vehicles¹.
• From the Houston Chronicle, Storms take U.S. oil production to lowest since WWII¹.
• From KTRK ABC Channel 13, Lessons were learned from Rita evacuation, but changes haven’t been made.

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Reminders:

1. Houston Chronicle links expire after a few days because they’re archived. If you want to access these articles after that, you either have to be a subscriber or go to the Houston Public Library and access the database using your Library Power Card.
2. KHOU CBS Channel 11 requires a registration, free.