Saturday, September 24, 2005

Galveston, Texas, September 24, 2005

Reuters: Robert Shumake, dressed in a God Bless America shirt, waves the U.S. flag along the seawall with the Gulf of Mexico in the background in the aftermath of Hurricane Rita in Galveston, Texas September 24, 2005. Shumake was celebrating that the city was spared major damage from the storm. Hurricane Rita was downgraded to a Category 1 storm on Saturday with maximum sustained winds of about 75 mph (120 kph), the U.S. National Hurricane Center said in its 11 a.m. EDT (1500 GMT) advisory.

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