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Ike survivors may wait weeks for hot meals, baths
Sep 16 2008, AP

Tens of thousands of residents first hunkered down to wait for Hurricane Ike’s brutal punch. Those survivors on the wrecked Texas coast must now wait again _ for food, water and ice, for the electricity to return to their homes, for that first hot meal and shower.

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