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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[yndy.livejournal.com]

I learned to crab-fish in Galveston.
I remember fondly standing on her beaches at night, watching the moon rise to my left and head toward my right while facing the surf as it rolled in - and thinking how it was to be on neither east nor west coast, but facing south with all the sea before me.

How sad.