“There’s going to be substantial deaths, It looks pretty grim, to tell you the truth.”

Rescuers Fear for Those Stuck on Texas Peninsula

By SHAILA DEWAN
Published: September 14, 2008

CHAMBERS COUNTY, Tex. — The rescue trucks and ambulances, neatly arranged in a double column, sat waiting at the point where State Highway 124, the road to the Bolivar Peninsula, disappeared underneath a storm-bloated ocean. Early Sunday afternoon, that was the closest the rescue workers could get to the string of little towns they had fled two days before as Hurricane Ike approached, leaving behind what they estimated were a few hundred holdouts.

Times Topics: Hurricane IkeAs they waited, stymied, for the waters to recede, their minds were occupied with visions of the worst. “There’s going to be substantial deaths,” said the emergency medical services coordinator for High Island, Robert Isaacks. “It looks pretty grim, to tell you the truth.”

He added, “The water’s slowly but surely going down now, but it’s not going down fast enough for us.”

The Bolivar Peninsula is a barrier island-like finger of land east of Galveston Island; between the two is the entrance to Galveston Bay. It is normally reached by ferry from Galveston or via the rice-farming country east of Galveston Bay, where on Sunday drowned cattle were half-buried in piles of debris along the gravel roads.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/15/us/15scene.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=Bolivar+Peninsula&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&resnum=1&ct=title
Google map of Bolivar Peninsula

I sure hope all those people that are living there evacuated in time.

there`s only a few houses left.who ever stayed are probably dead



http://news.aol.com/article/nearly-2000-hurricane-victims-rescued/170000

drill baby drill!

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&tab=wl

I'm not sure which would be freakier: to lose everything, or be the only house left standing. :o

that was built after the google pic was taken.

I had to go to yahoo maps to find it. I think it's on S. Church St.

Sid

Here's Gilchrist after Ike:


Here's the before pic (which I screen capped from yahoo maps. The house left standing in the picture above circled below.)


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ETA: another pic of that house

lore has it that a hurricane created Wiloughby Spit, a section of Norfolk. I wonder if Ike wiped Bolivar off the map?

I think it was wiped off the map.

http://www.maroonspoon.com/wx/ike.html

link to 4 Houston channels.

Why all the fuss?

:sarcasm:

...or allowing news choppers to overfly...

crude summer homes on pilings there. We'd fish and crab and ski and raise hell on the beaches - hell, that was when you could drive on galveston beach.

I always loved the ferry rides - the dolphins playing in the waves.

:(

I don't know if my cousin got out, I'm hoping like hell he did since no one has called to voice concern that he didn't. I tried calling relatives most of the day and the lines are still all messed up, getting through is a hit and miss.

God bless these people :(

Bolivar before Ike



www.bolivarchamber.org/ BolivarPeninsula.aspx