Sat Sep 13, 2008 at 05:02:44 PM PDT
Cross-posted at Facing South

Texas-based blog Grits for Breakfast is covering the shocking news that Galveston Island's sheriff -- despite official warnings that those who stayed in Galveston faced "certain death" -- refused to evacuate at least 1,000 people in the county jail.

People in the jail were terrified. The Galveston Daily News quoted a mother who spoke to her son Friday night in the jail: