Officials order Ike-scarred residents to leave

jimmyz

so here is our future. fema camp time. I wounder how many stand offs there will be.

GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — Authorities say the holdouts on Texas' ravaged Bolivar Peninsula will be required to leave in the next few days, and they are prepared to impose martial law if needed to empty the barrier island scraped clean by Hurricane Ike.

Martial Law

benzoil

From the article:

Officials say without food, gas, water and other necessities, the island is unlivable and everyone needs to leave so recovery can begin.

Not to be obtuse, but HOW CAN THE RECOVERY BEGIN IF THERE IS NO ONE THERE?

If these people don't need government assistance, leave them be for god's sake. Are they afraid they'll loot the stilts of the wiped out homes on Bolivar peninsula?
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jimmyz

We just went through Gustav, but we didn't leave but they where
trying to stop people from coming back in based on

Officials say without food, gas, water and other necessities,

which was bs bc a lot of people like me have are own well etc.

Shannymara

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Jotapay · Intermediate Crude Joined: Jun 21, 2008 Posts: 675

They want people out of there because some of them are requiring assistance, which costs money. Or they just don't like citizens in the middle of them getting to play "big government"; they tend to be nuisances. If sanitary conditions are bad enough, they could be spreading disease. But who knows, I'm not there so I can't say for sure.

To get me to leave my house, it would need to be uninhabitable. And I have enough supplies at my house to last quite a while. I could dig a latrine in the yard, burn the garbage and we'd be set to hunker down for a while.

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Zel · Tar Sands Joined: Jun 22, 2008 Posts: 28

Re: limiting press coverage

My ex is military and works all over Houston. He was told that the press is being kept out of Galveston or allowed only limited access because they are having a lot of bodies washing up on the island.

I don't know how accurate his source is, but that would make sense since the Bushies don't like for us regular folk to know what's really going on, especially when official statements say everything is hunky-dory down here.

Some places here are pretty much back to normal, but the harder hit areas are going to be down for a long while.

coyote

I'm curious how folks there survived the event in the first place:

Imagine what it must have been like in 1900 with no warning.
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