you all know this statue commemorating the 12,000 people who died in 1900.
this was taken this morning by MSNBC around 930 a.m as the first waves started coming in.
hope everybody in Houston-Galveston will be safe as Ike roars through… Galveston certainly will be a changed place after tomorrow.., many of the things we know there will be gone
Side note: it’s pretty certain that all of the extremely endangered Attwaters Prairie Chickens on the Texas City 2,000 acre reserve owned by the Nature Conservancy will die– the storm surge alone will drown them.
that will leave only the handful that are further inland out by Eagle Lake and Goliad.