‘Cascading disasters’: What a hurricane means when you live next to a refinery

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By Rachel RamirezAug 29, 2020, 6:59 am265 pts
Before Hurricane Laura made landfall as a Category 4 storm, meteorologists warned that it would hit industrial coastal cities like Port Arthur, Texas, especially hard. Public officials along the Texas-Louisiana border urged residents to move out of the storm’s path. But for Port Arthur’s low-income…

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