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Memorial Coliseum housed Hurricane Katrina evacuees in 2005
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#TBT: Hurricane Anita gave Corpus Christi a good scare in 1977
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For a city so enamored of baseball, Corpus Christi has had terrible luck sustaining a minor league baseball team. And the 1976 Corpus Christi Sea Gulls were no exception.
In early March 1976 came the first talks of a Single-A franchise for the area. Advertising businessman Terry Ferrell announced his intention to create a local minor league team. A few weeks later the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues president announced the creation of the six-team Gulf States League consisting of the Corpus Christi Sea Gulls, the Rio Grande Valley White Wings, the Baton Rouge Cougars, the Beeville Bees, the Victoria Cowboys and the Seguin Toros.
enough team to get everybody out. you have to move quickly. reporter: responders had to wait for hours before they could evacuate the nursing home. other authorities fanned out in an urgent effort to convince others to flee. like this family, celebrating her birthday by running for high ground. my mother named by after hurricane anita, which was august 29, 1977, the day i was born. again, shows you how vulnerable those areas that are outside of the new levee system really are and highlights that yet again. the governor estimates it will take about 24 million bucks and counting for the cleanup here. and for the recovery after the storms. and that bill is going to rise. i have to point out people of plaquemines parish, they were decimated, katrina, five years later, the oil spill, worst environmental disaster in the history of the country. and now they have this. they have just been battle-tested on so many levels. somehow, it s it s home. they love where they live, they stay, fi