Preparing for and running from Hurricane Rita proved far more deadly in Texas than the storm itself.

The Associated Press reported Thursday the death toll in Texas has risen to at least 100 in early counts including indirect deaths from the storm.

Rita's aftermath has claimed the lives of some people who tried to run generators inside their homes and died of carbon monoxide poisoning.

AP reports the evacuation of millions of people from the coastal counties to as far north as Dallas killed about 60 people, according to various counts from a number of local officials
and government agencies.

The storm made landfall early Saturday near Sabine Pass.

A spokesman for Gov. Rick Perry says that getting an official tally of deaths related directly or indirectly to Rita may take weeks.

In Texas City, a man in his 60's fell and broke his leg evidently while preparing for the storm two days before landfall. Galveston County authorities say the large man was unable to get
up, and suffocated.

Harris County officials reported 33 deaths attributable to the storm, including a woman found dead on a sidewalk three days before Rita hit land.

Of those, 22 people, ranging in age from 14 months to 92 years, died in the mass evacuation of Houston.

Five people over the age of 65, all with medical problems, died in Walker County while being evacuated.

Madison County Judge Cecil N. Neely attributed five deaths to the evacuation, four in accidents and one man who died after pulling over to the side of the road.

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