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Prince
Apolyton Minister of Culture
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Aug 1999
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Due to the economic insanity, the story of Galveston and Hurricane Ike has been lost in the news. You may assume that, due to lack of coverage, Ike was an insurance nightmare, but relatively small on the loss of American life, at "only" 61. You'd be wrong.
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Gail Ettenger made her last phone call at 10:10 p.m. She was trapped in her Bolivar Peninsula bungalow with her Great Dane, Reba. A drowning cat cried outside. Her Jeep bobbed in the seawater surging around her home.
Ettenger, 58, told her friend she was reading old love letters by flashlight. "I think I really screwed up this time," she said, according to Monroe Burks, Ettenger's neighbor who had evacuated to Houston.
That was Friday, Sept 12. On Wednesday — 12 days later — her nearly nude body was found face down by a huge debris pile in a remote mosquito-ridden marsh in Chambers County, about 10 miles inland from where her gray beach house once stood.
Two weeks after Hurricane Ike swept through the Texas coast, 400 people remain missing, mostly from Galveston County, according to an analysis of calls logged to a hot line set up by the nonprofit Laura Recovery Center to assist local authorities.
Until Wednesday, Ettenger was one of them.
About 60 of the missing lived on the Bolivar Peninsula, stripped bare by the storm surge that felled beach houses like a bomb. More than 200 were listed as missing on Galveston Island itself, according to a city-by-city analysis of the data conducted for the Houston Chronicle by Bob Walcutt, executive director of the recovery center in Friendswood.
Hot line and rescue workers hope that many people, especially on Galveston Island, will be reunited with family and friends as hurricane recovery efforts continue. More than 145 already have been located through blogs, media Web sites, Red Cross shelter lists, endless phone calls, welfare checks and sometimes dramatic rescues led by the Galveston County Sheriff's Office and other agencies.
Yet disturbing tales told by survivors from Bolivar communities like Gilchrist, Crystal Beach and Port Bolivar suggest some may never return.
"There's still lots of people who are not accounted for," said Capt. Rod Ousley, of the State Parks & Wildlife Service, which is helping to search for survivors or bodies in remote corners of several coastal counties. "We don't know if they got washed out to sea, or buried in the sand or in debris piles. We just keep looking until they come up ... we're just going to keep trying." |
Rest of article here: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl...ke/6027458.html
If each person were confirmed dead, Ike would be the 5th deadliest American hurricane of the last 100 years.
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Emperor
Fort LOLderdale, FL Communist Party of Apolyton
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Jun 2000
time: 03:11
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****.
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Deity
Republic of Texas
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Sep 1999
time: 02:11
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Washed out to sea is the growing opinion, as the article notes.
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Emperor
Eternal
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Nov 2005
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How many of these people didn't follow evacuation orders?
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Emperor
Fort LOLderdale, FL Communist Party of Apolyton
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Jun 2000
time: 03:11
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I'm pretty much thinking, all of them.
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Prince
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Nov 2005
time: 08:11
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THE POOR CAT !
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Emperor
Fort LOLderdale, FL Communist Party of Apolyton
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Jun 2000
time: 03:11
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Your brain is broken, isn't it?
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Stubborn people die. It's tragic, but they can't say they didn't get warning (or more correct, they can't speak at all).
What's left of Ike might now be coming my way. It hit Iceland with 250 mm of rain in 24 hours last week. But I don't know what happened to it after that, there's nothing on the weather report. It has been windy and rainy the last days, but nothing unusual for the season.
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King
Go Hogs!
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Nov 2001
time: 02:11
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Originally posted by Comrade Snuggles
The certain death warning for NOLA and Gustav. I just don't understand how anyone who lived in the town famous for being destroyed and home of the worst one-off natural disaster death toll in American history would decide to tough it out after all the bad storms we've had recently. |
Ike had a certain death quote also.
No doubt these people should have left when the warnings came out, but I am sure many of them left for Rita where it was heading on the same early path, and then it turned more north from the Galveston/Bolivar peninsula area.
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"Life-threatening inundation likely!" weather service forecasters warned in an official statement to Galveston Island residents living beyond the seawall. "All neighborhoods. . .and possibly entire coastal communities . . .will be inundated during the period of peak storm tide. Persons not heeding evacuation orders in single family one- or two-story homes will face certain death." |
CHRONICLE story
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Deity
Republic of Texas
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Sep 1999
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That, and it's just Texas.
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Emperor
listening too long to one song
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Mar 2002
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re:looters
looters were caught breaking into the home of one of my paralegals who was under the mandatory evac order. sheer luck that they were caught by a patrol.
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Deity
Republic of Texas
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Sep 1999
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If you're talking about a comparison with New Orleans, it was nothing by comparison.
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bad times
The whole thing had happened before and lots of people died. 
Seems ok. Thanks for the concern Che. 
The warning was, "If you stay, it's certain death!" I've never heard that warning being given ever before. Why did these people think they could get away ignoring it?
How long have you been away?
