When it made landfall in the predawn hours of Sept. 13, Ike slammed into the barrier island of Galveston, Texas, with 110 mph winds. According to news reports, flooding from the hurricane’s storm surge and a larger-than-usual wind field had already inundated most of the island, which underwent mandatory evacuations on Friday. Casualties remained low, with no fatalities recorded as of Sunday morning, The New York Times reported.

Originally posted by LostNemesis
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When it made landfall in the predawn hours of Sept. 13, Ike slammed into the barrier island of Galveston, Texas, with 110 mph winds. According to news reports, flooding from the hurricane’s storm surge and a larger-than-usual wind field had already inundated most of the island, which underwent mandatory evacuations on Friday. Casualties remained low, with no fatalities recorded as of Sunday morning, The New York Times reported.

Low casualties. I think this is good news. Not sure why the cell are off, though, and no media coverage is off, if there aren't bodies about.
Maybe more people actually got out, than reported.

A priority is checking on 140,000 who stayed

The full extent of the property damage as well as the human toll still was coming into focus late Saturday.

While government officials did preliminary surveys from land and air to get a sense of what lies ahead, search-and-rescue crews were combing through inundated areas to find out what happened to the estimated 140,000 people who defied mandatory evacuation orders and stayed home.

Gov. Rick Perry said the search-and-rescue operation was the largest ever undertaken in the state, involving 57 helicopters and more than 1,500 people on the ground.

Originally posted by loam
reply to post by Valhall

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Did you see the graphic?

"Galv. City Manager: Not sure what happened to the people at the West End"

[edit on 14-9-2008 by loam]