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FEMA has announced that it and other federal agencies "are preparing for [Hurricane] Rita by pre-positioning supplies and commodities in the surrounding affected areas and potential landfall areas of the storm," including truckloads of water, ice and food. They've also dispatched urban search-and-rescue teams and disaster medical assistance teams to regions likely to be hit by the huge storm. That would be comforting if FEMA hadn't announced almost exactly the same thing before Katrina hit.