Evacuated Beaumont Residents Can Return Home Starting Saturday
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Evacuated Beaumont Residents Can Return Home Starting Saturday
Beaumont residents who were ordered to leave the city two days before Hurricane Ike made landfall will be allowed to begin to return home starting Saturday morning.
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(September 19, 2008)--Beaumont residents have spent more than a week out of their homes because of Hurricane Ike will be allowed to return starting Saturday morning.

A statement Friday from Beaumont Mayor Becky Ames says the city's mandatory evacuation order, issued two days before Ike made landfall, is lifted as of 6 a.m. Saturday.

Beaumont’s 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew remains until further notice.

Ames says about half of Beaumont, a city of 114,000, remains without electricity as efforts continue to restore service.

Beaumont still has limited food, fuel, medical and retail resources.

A boil order remains in effect for Beaumont.

Ike made landfall Sept. 13 at Galveston, but the strong winds and storm surge damaged other sections of Southeast Texas.

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