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今日のABCテレビで、カリブ海沖に発生した熱帯性低気圧（ハリケーン・リタ）が勢力を増し、現地時間19日にフロリダ沖をレベル２から３で通過。その後、メキシコ湾からテキサス方向に向かうため、ハリケーン・カトリーナによって被災したニューオリンズ地域を再び襲う可能性が高まってきたと放送した。
周囲の一部で反対があったにもかかわらず、帰宅許可を与えていたニューオリンズ市長は、方針を変え、再び避難命令を出した。このため、一部の人たちの間で不評をかっている。
http://www.disastercenter.com/Tropical%20Storm%20-%20Hurricane%20-%20Rita.html
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1140495
（この記事は、主としてフロリダの件について書かれていますが、これはテレビ放送される前の記事です。上記のURLの天気図を見てくだされば、方向が分かります）
ABC News
Residents of Keys Evacuate for Rita
Florida Residents Evacuate and Oil Industry Gets Nervous As Rita Nears Hurricane Strength
KEY WEST, Fla. Sep 19, 2005 — Residents boarded up windows Monday and evacuated the low-lying Florida Keys as Tropical Storm Rita gathered strength in the Bahamas, threatening to grow into a hurricane with a potential 8-foot storm surge.
Officials in New Orleans warned that there was a chance Rita could charge through the Gulf of Mexico and interfere with recovery from Hurricane Katrina, which also roared across South Florida. Oil prices surged on the possibility that the storm would interrupt oil and gas production.
The storm's top sustained wind speed was 70 mph by midafternoon Monday and it was expected to strengthen into a Category 1 hurricane, with winds of at least 74 mph, by the time it got close to the Keys early Tuesday.
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Residents of Keys Evacuate for Rita
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"The main concern now is the Florida Keys," said Max Mayfield, director of the National Hurricane Center in Miami. "It's moving over very warm water and that's extremely favorable for development."
Hurricane warnings were posted for the Keys and Miami-Dade County, the hurricane center said. Residents were ordered to evacuate the lower Keys and visitors were ordered to clear out of the entire chain of islands, connected by just one highway. Voluntary evacuation orders were posted for some 134,000 Miami-Dade residents of coastal areas such as Miami Beach and Key Biscayne.
"This storm has some potential to it. The time to go is now," said state emergency management director Craig Fugate.
While many Keys residents take pride in staying put during hurricanes, others said they were worried because of Katrina's devastation of Louisiana and Mississippi. Most stores on Key West's Duval Street were boarded up Monday and that and other streets were nearly empty as the sky turned cloudy.
"We're going north, wherever the storm isn't going," John Williams said after he and Lisa Sparks got married Monday morning on the beach in Key West. They joked that if they had a baby girl they would name her Rita.
Rita is the 17th named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, making this the fourth busiest season since record-keeping started in 1851. The record is 21 tropical storms in 1933. Six hurricanes have hit Florida in the last 13 months.
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