Give me a half a dozen D9’s and I’ll have that mess and a whole lot more, cleaned up real quick.
In Alicia, we did it in 6 hours, from Broadway and 61st to the railroad overpass at the 7 1/2 mile marker. They are using that debris as a roadblock, to keep people from coming back. And you wonder why these people stay on the island???
The Seawall area looks even worse. :(
I just saw that the Galveston County Daily News is back online, but it's too slow to connect. Either the Internet there is sparse or there are too many people trying to read. But anyway, it's on and off, and here are some tidbits I found:
- League City homes were spared most of the flooding.
- Mainland Medical Center is closed.
- Engineers haven't yet been able to inspect the Causeway structurally.
- Sunday morning, residents of the tiny community of Seabrook near Johnson Space Center began trying to return home. They were met by a roadblock, and three Seabrook police officers standing in the rain, turning folks away. At times the line was six to 12 cars deep.
- "Seabrook is a disaster area: no sewer, no infrastructure. It really isn't safe," said officer Charlie Skinner.
- On one side of the Galveston peninsula, a couple of barges had broken loose and smashed into homes. Everything from red vinyl barstools to clay roof tiles littered the landscape. Some homes were "pancaked," the second floor sitting where the first had been before Ike's surge washed it out. Only the stud frames remained below the roofs of many houses, opening a clear view from front yard to back.
- Gov. Rick Perry's office said 940 people had been saved by nightfall Saturday, but that thousands had made distress calls the night before. Another 600 were rescued from flooding in neighboring Louisiana.
- In Orange County, 600 to 700 people had been rescued by nightfall, said officials who feared hundreds more were still stranded. There was widespread flooding in Orange and Bridge City, where rescuers were pulling people from attics and rooftops, and in Lake Charles, across the Louisiana line.
- Authorities said Sunday three people were found dead in Galveston, including one person found in a submerged vehicle near the airport.
Photos here: link -- but don't hotlink any.