As of noon on Wednesday 61% of Houston Centerpoint Customers are still without power. That’s 1.37 million people, not counting surrounding areas effected by the storm. Power appears to be coming back on-line in smaller cities surrounding Houston which is good for first responders.
As power is restored to smaller towns outside of Houston, evacuees are […]

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First, my thoughts and well wishes for the rest of the nation affected by Ike. We understand the difficulties of living with no electricity and few expected tropical storm threats in Ohio. We are sorry for your losses and hope your power (and ours) is restored quickly.
Fuel: Gas is hard to find and running low […]

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The Disaster Accountability Project’s hotline received over 40 calls in the last 24 hours.  The following summaries provide a view into what people are dealing with along the TX Gulf Coast.
An mp3 of a DAP radio interview in Houston is posted here: (only 15 mb)
http://free.mailbigfile.com/7f15645ee07464813eb95ffd0bb4356c/listFiles.php
We’ve been able to respond to some callers, but not all.  […]

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Galveston, TX, one of the nation’s most vulnerable cities, disregarded a key White House recommendation — despite a city-wide mandatory evacuation order and news media and forecaster predictions of “certain death” for those remaining in Galveston for Hurricane Ike.
According to the Houston Chronicle, Galveston officials are mum on the reason for not evacuating the county […]

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Hurricane Katrina is thought to have killed around 1,800 people, but it was not nearly the most deadly hurricane in terms of U.S. casualties. That “honor” belongs to the Galveston Hurricane of 1900, which wiped out the city and killed an estimated 6-8,000 people.
The storm surge was about 16 feet, and the highest elevation in […]

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