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Dooney & Bourke

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Sorry guys, don't mean to be depressing but all we have here is the news and there just isn't anything else to do but sit n wait for Rita.


Anyways, a bus carrying evacuees heading up to Dallas on I-45 overheated in the stop and go traffic killing 20+ people on board. So sad :(


Traffic is stalled even further!!! They are trying to open shelters along the freeway now just to get people off the streets but there r still sooo many people on the road!



-- Edited by kahluamilk at 09:35, 2005-09-23

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Kenneth Cole

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I read this this morning on MSNBC.  How tragic.  The whole scene is so crazy and insane.  Is everyone even going to get out in time before the hurricane even hits.  The traffic jam is like a parking lot. 

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Bus carrying elderly evacuees burns; 24 dead Fire engulfs vehicle carrying elderly from Houston area nursing home



MSNBC and news services Updated: 10:12 a.m. ET Sept. 23, 2005


DALLAS - The flight from the danger posed by Hurricane Rita turned deadly early Friday as a bus filled with  elderly evacuees from the Houston area burst into flames on traffic-packed Interstate 45, leaving as many as 24 people dead, according to local officials.


"Deputies were unable to get everyone off the bus," Dallas County Sheriff's Department spokesman Don Peritz said. He said he believed 24 people were killed, but that number could change.


Separately, the Dallas County Fire Marshal's office told NBC News that 24 were killed in the tragedy.


The bus was carrying 43 people who had been traveling since Thursday from a nursing home or managed care facility near Houston, Peritz said.


Early indications were that the bus caught fire because of mechanical problems, possibly overheated brakes, then passengers' oxygen tanks started exploding, he said.


A blackened, burned out shell
The fire reduced the vehicle to a blackened, burned-out shell with large blue tarps covering many seats, surrounded by about 20 police cars and ambulances.


Tina Jones, a nurse from Ennis, was driving behind the bus when she saw it start to smoke and pull to the side of the road.


"I saw the smoke and then there was an explosions," said Jones, who pulled over and helped treat some passengers who suffered cuts and bruises. She said she saw at least six bodies.


"I'll probably go home and have a good cry," she said.



The deadly accident forced authorities to briefly shut the freeway, a main evacuation route from Houston, and created a 17-mile backup. Interstate 45 stretches more than 250 miles from Galveston through Houston to Dallas. The crash site is roughly 17 miles southeast of downtown Dallas.


Gov. Rick Perry spokeswoman Kathy Walt said traffic on I-45 would be diverted at Ennis, about 30 miles southeast of Dallas.


Wreckage moved aside
Authorities also were taking the unusual step of moving the wreckage and continuing the investigation in a remote location so the interstate could reopen for evacuees, Peritz said.


"You have thousands of people who are in their vehicles trying to escape," he said.


Nearly 2 million people along the Texas and Louisiana coasts were urged to get out of the way of Rita before it makes landfall late Friday or early Saturday. Friday morning, the freeways within Houston had cleared out, but it was still bumper to bumper traffic from the outskirts of Houston toward Austin and Dallas.



-- Edited by Irene at 10:36, 2005-09-23

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Hermes

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that's Bush's fault because he hates old people.

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detroit wrote:



that's Bush's fault because he hates old people.



bwah! that made me laugh out loud. (b/c i see the sarcasm in detroit's post) just thought i'd throw that in there...obviously i don't think that what happened in dallas is funny.



-- Edited by honey at 11:21, 2005-09-23

-- Edited by honey at 11:26, 2005-09-23

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-- Edited by Pepper at 11:19, 2005-09-23

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That is just the saddest thing.  My heart breaks for those people.  On another note, I see the humor in Detroit's comment. 

-- Edited by alb at 14:14, 2005-09-23

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Hermes

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So sad

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Marc Jacobs

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Tears came to my eyes when I saw the horrible picture! Everythings going wrong lately!!!!

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Chanel

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it is horrible and i dont understand why this stuff happens, sometime i think it is gods way of letting us know please dont take what you have for granted because it could be gone in a flash. maybe iam wrong

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i have to say, this is soo sad.    as i believe, you never know when, where, or how you are gonna go. just be ready, with the man above, is all we can do.



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