EVACUATION BUSES * USA - Sandbags, buses readied as Texas officials prepare for Hurricane Dean

With lessons from Rita

Houston,TX,USA -AP/Houston Chronicle, by MONICA RHOR -19 Aug 2007: -- Even with powerful Hurricane Dean days away and its path uncertain, officials in sodden south Texas left little to chance Sunday, readying planes, gasoline and hundreds of buses to get residents out in a hurry...

* Jamaica - ODPEM withdraws evacuation buses

Jamaica -Radio jamaica -19 August 2007: -- Assistant Deputy Director-General of the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM), Cecil Bailey says the agency has withdrawn buses which were being provided to evacuate persons from flood prone communities...