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Beyond the Main Point The body of a news article contains different kinds of additional information to help you understand the story : details , comments from people involved in the story and background information . 1 Read the following news article about the damage caused by a hurricane in Texas . * As you read the article , look for the following information : ? comments of people involved in the story ? important details ? background information ? the writer's opinion ? examples Bret Gives Texas Break No injuries have been reported since Hurricane Bret , the biggest storm to hit Texas in over a decade , struck land on Tuesday evening , a local weather station says . Hurricane Bret ( Category 4 ) made landfall about 6 p . m . on Sunday evening in Kenedy County , a sparsely populated area located in southern Texas . Winds reached 125 miles per hour , with gusts blowing even higher . By early Monday , 25 inches ( 63 centimeters ) of rain had already fallen in the area , and there were some reports of damage to buildings . Substantial damage was reported in Falfurrias , a city of 5 , 800 residents . A spokesman from the National Weather Service reported that the eye of the storm passed over the town at about 3 a . m . and ripped the roofs off many homes and buildings . In your notebook , answer the questions from activity 3 on page 8 for the article above . Mayor Michael Guerra announced that close to 90 percent of the town had no electricity . The 300 , 000 residents of Corpus Christi narrowly escaped serious damage . The storm blew through the city with wind gusts of only 73 miles per hour . Mayor Lloyd Neal said : "We ' re very fortunate . We planned well , executed well and nature cooperated . " In anticipation of the storm , people taped and boarded windows in homes and offices . Likewise , thousands of residents from the southern areas of Texas fled from their homes when the evacuation order was given . Many Texas residents still remember the previous Category 4 hurricane , Hurricane Allen , which hit Texas in 1980 and caused over $ 55 million in damage . The last hurricane in Texas before Bret was in October 1989 and killed three people . 11 appeared in a newspaper on August 24 , 1999
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