Texas Booksellers Along the Gulf Coast Prepare for Rita
As yet another category five hurricane bears down on the Gulf Coast -- this time in the Houston/Galveston area -- it is clear that most residents of coastal Texas towns have heeded the lessons of Hurricane Katrina. On Wednesday, hundreds of thousands of people began a mass exodus from the area, which is expected to bear the brunt of 350-mile wide Hurricane Rita. The storm is expected to come ashore late Friday or early Saturday causing widespread damage along the Texas coastline and further inland.
Kepler's, the popular Menlo Park, California, institution that shut its doors suddenly on August 31, has one, albeit large, obstacle to overcome in order to reopen, according to Anne Banta, Kepler's chief marketing officer: renegotiating its lease with landlord The Tan Group of Palo Alto.