Stranded Galveston residents call in vain for rescues [View All]

Source: Houston Chronicle

Stranded Galveston residents call in vain for rescues
Galveston, Harris call curfews to protect evacuees' homes
By DANE SCHILLER, KEVIN MORAN and MIKE TOLSON Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle
Sept. 12, 2008, 10:55PM

As Hurricane Ike pushed a swelling surge onto Galveston Island tonight, many Galveston residents who ignored a mandatory evacuation order phoned for rescues to no avail because emergency workers were called off the streets, officials said.

Help wasn't expected until after dangerous storm conditions subsided.

"We don't know what we're going to find tomorrow," said the city's mayor, Lyda Ann Thomas. "We hope we'll find that the people who didn't leave here are alive and well."

City Manager Steve LeBlanc went so far as to ask the media not to photograph "certain things" in the aftermath, referring to the possibility of dead bodies.



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