Hurricane season officially starts Saturday, June 1, and Texas leaders are calling on Texans to
Emergency response agencies staged their annual hurricane exercise Friday at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport.
was there, thanking responders like , the search and rescue experts whose 鈥渞egular鈥� jobs are with organizations like the Austin Fire Department.
They鈥檝e been busy recently in places like Moore, Oklahoma.
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is expecting an hurricane season, but that may or may not include the Texas Gulf Coast.
The last hurricane to hit Texas was Ike in 2008.
