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It’s just Erin and Dean, not Katrina and Rita
08/27/2007
On Aug. 19 as Dean, the first hurricane of the 2007 season, pounded Jamaica’s south coast, residents of Houston some 1,427 miles away were emptying grocery shelves of bread, bottled water, and other essentials on the remote chance that the storm might come ashore in their vicinity.E-mails were circulating in the city warning recipients to “fill up your car tanks and keep them topped off” because gasoline prices might spike to $6/gal if Dean hit the Texas Gulf Coast. A run on gasoline in the country’s fourth-largest urban area just 2 weeks before the long Labor Day weekend that historically marks the end of the summer driving season could do more to drive up gasolin...
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