Mania Twain
Great Shania Twain concert tickets
are available only to Aggies.
A limited number of these tickets
go “on sale” at regular $35 and
$25 prices at 10 a.m. Saturday
morning, August 29, only at Reed
Arena’s Box Office. You may pur
chase 4 of these special tickets
with each Texas ASM ID card or
fee slip. Other good tickets are on
sale at Reed Arena, MSC Box
Office (Monday thru Friday),
Ticketmaster locations, by tele
phone at 268-0414 or on-line at
www.Ticketmaster.com.
★ Shania Twain in Concert ★
★ 8 p.m., September 9 ★
★ Reed Arena ★
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Del Rio residents recover from Chat
DEL RIO (AP) — As flood waters
receded Tuesday, camouflage-
dressed searchers accompanied by
dogs worked their way around mud
dy, debris-strewn streets to poke
through homes looking for bodies.
An earlier estimate of 30 missing
people was lowered to an unspeci
fied number, authorities said, al
though law officers continued to
search by land and by air for victims
who might be missing or dead.
“There are people missing and
we are looking,” U.S. Border Patrol
spokesperson Paty Mancha said.
“We’re compiling shelter lists and
comparing those to missing lists.
Everybody doesn’t have access to a
phone and that is a real problem.”
Six people were killed in the
flooding in Del Rio, Lt. Judy Altom
of the Texas Department of Public
Safety said.
The hardest-hit area was a
neighborhood of mostly poor peo
ple near San Felipe Creek, a nor
mally placid stream that roared
over its bank and into homes dur
ing a downpour caused by the rem
nant of TYopical Storm Charley.
Entire houses were washed away.
Others had roofs or walls ripped off.
Cars and pickup trucks were over
turned or carried away by flood wa
ters. Personal belongings — panty
hose, beads, shoes, a trophy, a Bible
— were strewn about the streets or
crammed against chain-link fences.
A Christmas tree and a strand of
blue lights lay near one home. A ce
ramic mold of praying hands sat in
the middle of a street.
Above San Felipe Creek, heli
copters flown by the Border Patrol
“Their houses are
destroyed. Some of the
people lost their loved
ones. They're feeling
really low."
Robert Chavira
Del Rio mayor
and the Texas Amiy National Guard
hovered as officers looked over the
debris-covered landscape for victims.
Along the creek, small teams of Bor
der Patrol and Department of Public
Safety (DPS) officers searched on
foot, some using dogs.The Texas
Parks and Wildlife Department used
boats to patrol the creek.
The Mexican government said
three people were killed in Ciudad
Acuna, across the Rio Grande.
Five people died in flood-related
deaths over the weekend in the
Texas Hill Country.
Although two-thirds of the city
was under water Monday, the wa
ter had receded Tuesday, and the
city began looking toward the
cleanup.
Some 400 homes sustained
damage, Del Rio mayor Robert
Chavira said.
“Their houses are destroyed.
Some of the people lost their loved
ones,” Chavira said. "They’re feel
ing really low. They’re feeling
’Where do we go from here?”’
Early Thesday, only a few dogs
roamed the roads of Del Rio’s San
Felipe neighborhood. Approximate
ly 700 people had spent the night in
shelters because their homes were
damaged by flooding.
One by one, residents began to
come back to check on their prop
erty if the police, DPS or Border Pa
trol would let them past barricades.
“I was glad I got my family out,”
resident Larry Martinez said as he
opened the doors of his small home
to “air out” the smell of rotten food
seeping from his refrigerator. “I
don’t really care about the damage."
Martinez and his wife and chil
dren helped another family with
five children escape in the rising
water. They also grabbed two
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