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Francis fled the island and the home where she had lived for "40 odd years" with her husband, a sea captain for Texaco, taking only a few photographs and the bank books for the Galveston Grandmothers Club. It was the first time she had left during a storm. In 1983, Hurricane Alicia, a category three storm, had blown hard but with no surge. This time, Hollywood Heights, her West End island neighborhood just two blocks off the beach was quickly put under water by Ike. A moldy black water line high on the yellow siding shows where the water...
...more than 6,000 island residents perished in a hurricane. Many of the dead were taken out to sea for burial but even though their bodies were weighted down the tides brought them back. For over a month there were mass funeral pyres around the city. There will be no burning on the island this time. Fires are forbidden. There is a dusk-to-dawn curfew and residents are warned to get shots for tetanus and hepatitis before returning. Downtown, with its brick and ironwork Victorian-era buildings - once dubbed the "Wall Street of the Southwest" - is a ghost town...
...harbor, most of the luxury yachts have left for safer moorings, while across the channel the massive floating oil rigs ready to be towed to sea have stood firm. But a large shrimp boat, 50 feet long or more, sits on its side in the parking lot in front of Willie G's Seafood and Steakhouse, wedged between a crushed parking lot tollbooth and the tramline rails, its anchor hanging like a noose over the roof of the tram stop...
...Saturday at Ohiri Field. With the victory, the Crimson boosted its record to 4-3-0. After almost an hour of anticipation, Harvard finally put itself on the board with a goal by junior Kwaku Nyamekye in the 59th minute. Nyamekye broke through a sea of blue jerseys to find the Bulldog net off of a free kick from senior John Stamatis, recording his first goal of the season. The assist marked Stamatis’ fourth of the year, ranking him third on the Crimson’s offense in points. “Today we did pretty well...
...although that figure was later reduced to $20 million. But he likes to cast it as also a protest. "We were forced into this work," he argues, speaking from the Faina's bridge at anchor off the village of Hobyo. "We were fishermen. I used to work in the sea every day. But ships from other countries fish our coasts illegally, destroy our nets and fire on whoever approaches them. We were refused the right to fish. They even dump toxic waste. We couldn't work. So we decided to defend ourselves." Ali insists that piracy would stop...