Hundreds still missing in TX?
 

I sent an email to a friend in Texas to find out how he fared in the Hurricane. He's fine but he wrote that there are still over 400 people missing in the aftermath. There is nothing on the news about this.

Texas folks, is this an accurate report?

It was on the news....I saw the teaser. Unless they were pulled out to sea, how do 400 people "go missing" in 2008? It doesn't make sense. Was Houston as badly hit as NO in 2005? Is there no phones left?

Well the scale of damage is very strange. But yes, Houston Chronicle is reporting that 400 people are still missing. They are finding bodies daily as more people go back to the Island. I live very close to some really bad destruction. Like ten minutes away from houses that were totally destroyed. I didn't lose a shingle.

I think it's easily bad enough for that out in Galveston, and the Bolivar Peninsula. There were people that figured they'd ride out the storm.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6031153.html
"The Houston-area death toll from Hurricane Ike has reached 32 with the discovery this weekend of two unidentified bodies along the shore in Galveston County and the body of a Port Neches man found in Orange County.

Meanwhile, 40 people who went missing during Hurricane Ike have been reported found, according to dozens of calls received by Laura Recovery Center's hot line. However, the hot line also received about 16 new cases, leaving its count of storm-related missing persons at 365, according to an estimate from Bob Walcutt, executive director.

A fisherman discovered the body of a person believed to be a Caucasian male about 3:15 p.m. Saturday on the rocks two miles west of an area known as Severs Cut. The other body, believed to be a Caucasian female, was spotted in a debris pile about three hours later by all-terrain vehicle riders on the northwest side of Pelican Island, about 300 yards from Pelican Cut.

"A great deal of debris was washing out to sea, and some of the missing may never be found, unfortunately," Reed said."

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