There’s a quote from the man who stayed at Surfside Beach last night and survived:
Ray Wilkinson sat with his feet propped on the railing of his front porch Saturday, calmly dragging on a Marlboro Light as reporters asked whether he considered himself brave for being the only person to ride out Hurricane Ike on this spit of sand.
“I consider myself to be stupid,” Wilkinson, 67, spat through a thick, tobacco-stained beard. “I’m just tired of running from these things. If it’s going to get you, it’s going to get you. ...
“I didn’t say I had all my marbles, OK?”
http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/
KFDN/TXCN reporting little to no flooding in Beaumont.
[chuckles] Yup, he’s a Texan.
Contrast that to all the whiny Louisianans in New Orleans after Katrina.
Texas is going to be okay. :D
National Weather Online.com (apparently AP?) has a video of Galveston’s damage here:
http://headlines.nationalweatheronline.com/2008/09/galveston-clean.html
posted a little after 8 p.m. central time
“The city was spared major damage, with a few exceptions.” Some businesses on Seawall Blvd look pretty bad.
Well, I just tried to buy raywilkinson.com, but someone beat me to it.
Ray Wilkinson is just one more in the long line of examples of Texans taking responsibility for his own behavior.
How refreshing!
It is actually shocking that the Old Media hasn’t found more “victims” of someone else.
I’m not a Texan, and I’m very jealous now.