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jhetley ([personal profile] jhetley) wrote2008-09-12 06:32 pm

There's stubborn and then . . .

BBC World News has a reporter on Galveston Island.  He interviewed several people who planned to ride out the storm.  With a predicted storm surge higher than the high point on the island . . .

[identity profile] txtriffidranch.livejournal.com 2008-09-12 11:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Kinda reminds you of Harry Truman, late of Spirit Lake Lodge just downstream from Mount St. Helens, eh?

[identity profile] starcat-jewel.livejournal.com 2008-09-13 12:07 am (UTC)(link)
Evolution in action, says I.

(nearly done with the battening-down here)

[identity profile] wcg.livejournal.com 2008-09-13 02:34 am (UTC)(link)
They've got a name for folks like that in Texas. They call 'em damnfools.