Galveston, I See Your Sea Waves Crashing…

This is Galveston in 1900 after a huge hurricane swept through. No telephone system, no television, no internet, no text messaging, no satellites, no weatherscopes. 8000 people died there.

More of Galveston after hurricane in the year 1900. No bulldozers, no cranes, no flatbed 18 wheelers, no huge roll-offs, no electricity. It took years to put the city back to a semblance of what it had once been.

This is the least of the flotsam left by Hurricane Ike 2008. As of yesterday, 45 deaths were attributed to the hurricane. 20,000 people in Galveston were reported to have refused to evacuate.

In Gilcrest, there was once an entire village…

Graves were flooded. Coffins floated out.

For all others, there is devastation for the people, their creatures, their livestock.

Contact your local Red Cross to help. Google Red Cross and your city’s name. Google ‘Feed the Children,’ for an alternative. I witnessed both organizations doing merciful, swift, careful, tireless work when 4000 Katrina survivors were suddenly sent into a forced migration and airlifted to Denver after the hurricane.