Re: Deadliest,costliest,and most intense hurricanes United States Tropical Cyclones 1851-2010
Posted by
Will_TX on 8/10/2011, 2:22 pm
| I have a problem with this report.... There has never been a final and ACCURATE count of lives lost after Ike.... I have heard they found body after body in cars buried in sand and debris. For some reason political or other, the local authorities were very mum on that info. News agencies tried for weeks to get someone to give an accurate account of what has been discovered. They had a missing list that number into the hundreds for a couple of months. A lot of them were found to be ok but there were discrepencies in the reconciliation of that report and what actually was found. If you go to Gilcrist or Crystal Beach (Bolivar Penninsula), which had virtually nothing left because of the huge storm surge except for a lone yellow house supposedly built to withstand a Cat. 5 storm, you find someone who lost someone that night. I was at a Hospital on their ride-out team that night in the Texas Medical Center and listened to caller after caller contact our local news radio station who was covering live and heard them plead for someone to come save them and the DJ and announcer could only tell them that rescues were not possible now because of the winds and storm conditions...that they wish they would have heeded the warnings and mandatory evacuation calls when there was time. Ike is not even on the list of deadliest storms but it is rank as the 2nd or 3rd costliest storm on record. |
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