[GalvestonGal.com]

They bring their own, plus their own dope, plus their own guns. Also you can't use your cell phone half the time because all the "circuits" are tied up on the island.

This "party" is not an opportunity for the island.

[jdub]

Not only that, but the businesses that are not tourist related suffer as well. Car dealerships close because customers cant get there, for example. Restaurants lose any profits they make from skipped checks, which appears to be the most popular sport of the attendees. Locals basically just stay in their homes until Sunday evening. My parents, who live there, just leave town.

[GOPyouth]

Also you can't use your cell phone half the time because all the "circuits" are tied up on the island.

I will give you that one. Each year I go to the Zoo, I cannot get a call out to save my life. Then again, if I needed my life saved there are plenty of mounted deputies riding around.
We always get in good with those guys b/c we give them bottled water all day each time they pass us. One deputy told me last year that you have to really try hard to get arrested down there. Usually I guess it's underage drinking, drug selling, public sex, or fighting.
Last year undercover cops nailed these guys across the way for selling drugs. They had some steaks cooking when they were arrested, so we asked the cops if we could have their steaks. lol. They said no. uggghhh!!!! They smelled good, too!!

[AdA$tra]

Sorry, just trying to put a bit of silver lining in your cloud. If you want 365 boring days a year with little or no excitement, no tides, and beaches only where you put sand next to out mudhole reserviors; Move to Kansas. Sounds like this isn't a public sanctioned event and is sponsered by a radio station. Maybe a petition before your city's government would be a start....or run for mayor with an anti-festival platform. My brother lives in Alvin....it is quiet there too:-)