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Galveston Texas is a Ghost Town
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 502659:MV82MDc1NzFfOTI4ODU5NV85MTQ4QzUwNg==] [quote:Redheaded Stepchild] Just some Galveston numbers to consider. 20k did not evacuate. 200 taken out from the shelter of last resort. 2000 went out recently with medical problems. That gets it down to 17,800. However, the number being floated as remaining now is 15,000. Now maybe people can understand why there's so much distress over the government now allowing reporters in to those areas. Rumors are rumors. DHS has to dispell the rumors about refrigerated morgues, and floating bodies, and disease. They must do it now. [/quote] Exactly. [/quote]
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GALVESTON, Texas — Tourist-popular Galveston seems more like a debris-ridden ghost town today after Hurricane Ike.
About 20 Longhorns roamed the empty neighborhoods. The west end of Galveston island, while dotted with expensive homes, had undeveloped grazing lands.
Deputy city manager Brandon Wade toured the destruction with some reporters today.
Hurricane Ike lowered the beachfront sand by as much as five feet.
Many homes in Galveston's west end, protected by the city's seawall, made it through the weekend hurricane with minimal damage.
But others in a neighborhood of one- and two-story homes called Spanish Grant Beachside, erected on cement pilings with garages beneath the first floor, were pounded to rubble.
Residents are being urged to stay away since Galveston is without water, electricity and provisions.
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