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Here in Galveston we're living in the aftermath of Hurricane Rita. I just returned this evening, after swimming with my dogs in the frothy, freshened Gulf. The Gulf to me is a personality, and I was happy to swirl that salty water in my mouth again. Had Rita struck directly at Galveston Island, I doubt much would have remained of this diaphanous, dreamy spit of silt. My evacuation route before she hit the coast required twelve hours to travel a distance that would normally take one hour. Had Rita struck directly, the hundreds of thousands of souls stranded on the highways might have made the catastrophe in New Orleans a footnote in meteorological lore.
Mark Muhich and dogs in Gulf of Mexico
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Mark Muhich is chair of the Sierra Club's Galveston Group in Texas.
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