JUST AS IADC was set to celebrate our 65th Anniversary at the Annual Meeting in Galveston an uninvited lady crashed our party! Hard on the heels of Hurricane Katrina the US Gulf Coast was set upon a few weeks later by Hurricane Rita. By now just about everyone knows the story: massive evacuation from the Texas Gulf Coast which, in the end, received a glancing blow. The storm's devastating impact was felt instead along the eastern border of Texas and across south Louisiana. For the first time in our history, we had to cancel an Annual Meeting due to a hurricane. The Annual Directors Meeting was rescheduled for late October and our usual business of electing officers and other priorities taken care of in a proper fashion.
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