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Evacuees Return to Battered Galveston

Posted Sep 24, 08 2:31 PM CDT in US 

(Newser) – Heaps of furniture and electronics lined Galveston's streets as evacuees returned to the Texan island to salvage their belongings, the Galveston County Daily News reports. Some were spared from Hurricane Ike’s wrath altogether, while others discovered their homes completely flattened. In the city's central housing projects, first-floor residents found dead pets in courtyards that were submerged under 8 feet of water during the storm.


Source: Galveston County Daily News

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