Report on a dying city

[unixronin]

Hurricane Katrina beat, bruised, battered and bloodied New Orleans.  But it's looking like Hurricane Ike killed Galveston.

Of course, one could well argue that building a city on an oversized sandbar wasn't the best idea in the first place.  The harsh truth is Galveston's one of several cities that's been living on borrowed time for quite a while now.

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[jilara.livejournal.com]

Galveston has been on borrowed time from the first. They borrowed more of it after it was destroyed the first time. I've read horrific accounts from people who survived it. It really brings home the parable about those who build their houses on sand.

If even the seagulls haven't come back, that's a very bad sign.