The first time I left the island after the storm, I spent a couple of hours running errands. It made me so angry to see people going about their business when thousands of others only 50 miles away just had their lives turned upside down. While people in line at Starbucks complained about how long [...]
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I started working this week on Chapter 8, titled “A Long 10 Days.” That should be self-explanatory for everyone who waited anxiously on the other side of the causeway for word that they could come home. For everyone else: Galveston officials kept residents off the island for 10 days after Hurricane Ike struck. It took [...] I’ve spent the last few days working on Chapter 7, which covers the Saturday after Ike’s landfall. Everyone who rode out the storm on the island has vivid memories of that day. The impressions of what they saw, smelled and heard as they emerged from their safe (or in some cases not so safe) havens probably will [...] We get lots of questions about when the book will be finished, published and ready for sale. It’s gratifying to know so many people are interested in buying a copy, but the question always makes us cringe. The truth is, we really don’t know for sure when we’ll be able to hold a copy in [...] When Hurricane Ike slammed ashore on Sept 13, almost 15 months ago, Rhiannon Meyers and I were sitting in the ballroom of the San Luis Hotel listening to the wind howl through the seals in the big plate glass windows that make up the building’s exterior wall. We had no idea then what an effect [...] |
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