Well, Dubya has declared Texas a disaster area, Houston has set a 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew, and there’s been massive power outages and flooding, but it looks Ike didn’t turn out to be catastrophic by any stretch. The people in Texas need our help, but they seem to have made it through alive.
Twenty-four hours after Hurricane Ike slammed into Galveston, packing 110-mph winds, rescuers began efforts early Sunday to check on the estimated 20,000 people who failed to heed mandatory evacuation orders.
I guess even the threat of certain death won’t scare some people away.
