Texas — seven dead, including a person found in a submerged vehicle in Galveston and a 4-year-old Houston boy, of apparent carbon monoxide poisoning from an emergency generator.
Louisiana — six dead, including a 16-year-old boy trapped in rising flood waters.
Tennessee — two dead, both golfers killed by a falling tree.
Arkansas — one dead when a tree fell on a mobile home.
Ohio — three dead, including one who died when a tree fell on a home.
Indiana — four dead, a father and son killed helping children escape from a ditch.
Illinois — two dead, including an elderly man found in a flooded backyard.
Businesses and homes can be rebuilt. Not so human lives.
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The thoughts of the rest of the world are with the friends and families of all those lost to Ike.
ReplyDeletePeter,
ReplyDeleteThat was a very unusual storm in that it caused destruction (and death) all the way up to Canada.