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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[suzilem.livejournal.com]

Carnival has announced that it will start sailing out of Galveston again on November 1. That's less than a week away. If Galveston is still in that severe a state of ruin, I don't know how that is possible.

Some of the webcams are back up. You can't see too much now (almost 9PM), but perhaps tomorrow morning.

http://www.galveston.com/webcams/