Hurricane Ike- a thread to post status on recovery

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Originally Posted by paulam

Galveston is virtually gone. All the great restaurants like Gaido's (my parents used to take me there as a child) and shops along the seawall are gone. There is a search and rescue operation going on now for those 7,000 people who ignored the mandatory evacuation order. No one knows how many of them survived, if any. On the other side of the island, The Strand, an old fashioned boardwalk type area was severely damaged. A cruise ship which sails from Galveston was tossed on the ground out of the water; that's how severe the storm was.

Thanks for keeping us updated. I can't help but be sad about Galveston; this is one of my favorite places to vacation and I have lots of great family camping memories there.

Ironically, I have been evacuated from Galveston myself... but that was for Hurricane Brett(?) about 9-10 years ago.