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Eastforker...to me that is just wrong. First can they make the people there leave? Yes they need to look at health issues but people not knowing if they can go back soon or even, ever is setting up a disaster for the next storm IMO. The mayor should be working with the home owners instead of considering them as people that will just get in the way. It's happened to me once and my students have reported the same thing...they come up on an accident and administer first aide , direct traffic etc and then when the professional arrive they are treated as ignorant and in the way. Rescues should be planned to work with the public instead of against them. Not all would, but most neighbors would probably be grateful to be close to home and have a volunteer”job” to do that would free rescuers up for more important things. We don't need police officers passing out ice off a truck. A volunteer could do that. Meals could be cooked by volunteers, etc. JAT

This is Bollivar, not galveston, the mayor has nothing to do with it. The only access to the peninsula is by personal watercraft or helicopter. The road and bridge is out as with the ferry landing. The point is, if they make everyone leave they can keep them from coming back where as if they stay they are completely on their own. If they make everyone leave it would be way to easy to condemn the peninsula for residence. It will take many millions if not more to rebuild the roads and infrastructure, the state may not want to do that. After Alicia wiped out route 87 from high island to port aurthur, the state never rebuilt it.