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Blown Over: Galveston and Texas Gulf Coast Struggle After Hurricane Ike

By John Nova Lomax January 08, 2009

Sean Penn did not patrol Galveston's streets in an airboat. Kanye West didn't offer unscripted barbs about George Bush's opinion of black people on live television. Since Galveston has no native-born analogues to people like Dr. John or Harry Connick Jr., there were no televised... More >>>

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Marie Creasy rode out the storm on the seawall in the Poop Deck bar. Her friend Jacqueline Harris evacuated all of one block away.

Social worker Dee Dee Gregoire was one of 3,000 recently "RIF'd" by UTMB.

Carriage driver James Coffman said there was no time to evacuate his horses from Galveston. One of the three died in the flooding.

Galveston resident Sue Johnson worries that the island will turn to legalized gambling to help undo Ike's damage.

The Hunker Down restaurant on the Seawall failed to live up to its name.

Fred Niccum found himself drafted into running the city's answer to the New Orleans Superdome post-Katrina.

Captain Henry Porretto of the Galveston Police Department: "We were the last ones into refuge and the first ones out."

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Social worker Dee Dee Gregoire was one of 3,000 recently "RIF'd" by UTMB.

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Social worker Dee Dee Gregoire was one of 3,000 recently "RIF'd" by UTMB.

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