Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Why Do They Stay?
Last week, as it barreled toward the Texas coast, Hurricane Ike passed 400 miles from our home in Orange Beach, Alabama. Located right on the Florida/Alabama line, our town saw docks and parking lots underwater as ten and twelve-foot waves broke onto our beaches. Pushed by fifty mile per hour wind gusts, the water flooded over the roads in several places—all this from a storm that had its eye on someone else.
We watched the news as Ike picked his mark, slamming into Galveston and Houston and all the little surrounding towns that get the same intensity...
