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From WashingtonPost.com:
Storm Threat Halts Returns To New Orleans
Mayor Orders Wednesday Evacuation
By Ceci Connolly
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, September 20, 2005; A01
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 19 -- With Tropical Storm Rita bearing down on the Gulf of Mexico and growing political pressure from federal leaders, Mayor C. Ray Nagin said Monday that New Orleans residents could not return home after all and that any people already in the city should evacuate.
Nagin had been allowing business owners to return over the weekend, and on Monday residents of one dry neighborhood were to return to their homes. But Nagin reversed himself and ordered another mandatory evacuation, to begin Wednesday, just hours after President Bush questioned whether the city was safe enough for people to return.
09.20.05
