Enjoying the JourneySpotlight Post: Ike's gone, but is the mess?
September 14th 2008 14:45
CenTexGuy wrote on TexasMusings.com . . .
Ike's gone, but is the mess?
The last 24 hours have been wild. The next 24 will be crucial.
As Hurricane Ike came and left the shores of Texas it left in its wake a very big mess, and a gloomy picture.
As the storm closed in on Galveston officials become fearful, warning that anyone who ignored evacuation orders faced “certain death.” People who study these things warned that water would be 22 feet above Galveston’s sea wall. Stop and picture that for a second. 22 feet.
And people didn’t budge. Several reports said 40 percent of Galveston stayed to weather the storm.
Then it hit. And as I left and headed north, it seemed like maybe Galveston was lucky. No 22 foot water…only about 14 feet, and as of this post only four deaths related to Ike in the states…none in Galveston and there was slight rejoicing that the “certain death” was averted.
Click here to read this post in its entirety.
Ike's gone, but is the mess?
The last 24 hours have been wild. The next 24 will be crucial.
As Hurricane Ike came and left the shores of Texas it left in its wake a very big mess, and a gloomy picture.
As the storm closed in on Galveston officials become fearful, warning that anyone who ignored evacuation orders faced “certain death.” People who study these things warned that water would be 22 feet above Galveston’s sea wall. Stop and picture that for a second. 22 feet.
And people didn’t budge. Several reports said 40 percent of Galveston stayed to weather the storm.
Then it hit. And as I left and headed north, it seemed like maybe Galveston was lucky. No 22 foot water…only about 14 feet, and as of this post only four deaths related to Ike in the states…none in Galveston and there was slight rejoicing that the “certain death” was averted.
Click here to read this post in its entirety.
Highway 146 in Seabrook, Texas (image Kevin M. Cox Galveston County Daily News AP)
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