Alicia aftermath storms Texas as power outages rise
Hurricane Alicia left southeastern Texas battered with 16 dead and more than a quarter-million customers without electricity for a third day. In Houston 200,000 remained without power as temperatures topped 90. Coastal Galveston residents also faced outages and damaged lines.
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Houston sellers accused of price gouging after Alicia damages
State investigators say Houston retailers are charging inflated prices for bread, plywood, ice, and tools as residents recover from Hurricane Alicia. They report a bread loaf at 2.59 dollars, plywood at 12 dollars a sheet, ice at up to 55 dollars per 55 pounds, and a chainsaw up 249 dollars from the prior week.
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Houston Chronicle
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Nelda Moore
Alicia storms feared costliest U S disaster surpassing prior records
AP reports Hurricane Alicia could exceed 1.65 billion in damages with estimates from 750 million to 1.65 billion. Texas A M researchers project up to 1.23 billion while insurers race to tally losses amid the Gulf storm. In Galveston four crewmen survived after a tugboat sank and a fifth went missing.
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