BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Bush declares Texas disaster zone

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7614826.stm

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But major roads were washed out near the town and the damage was still "immense", The Associated Press reports.
Police agencies say it could take days to get into the areas worst affected in Galveston and the extent of the damage may not be known for some time, our correspondent adds.
Earlier, Ike caused devastation in Cuba and Haiti, where hundreds of people have died several tropical storms over the last month.

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damianrafferty  
Created by damianrafferty on 13 September 2008

damianrafferty's thoughts:

You have to feel sorry for the people in Texas who refused to leave their houses and have suffered from damaged roads but it is telling that at the bottom of this piece is the throwaway line that hundreds of people actually died, but not in a developed nation like the US.

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