90,000 body bags?

An estimated 90,000 people in the Houston and surrounding counties with mandatory evacuation orders have chosen not to leave.

They only declared mandatory evacs where officials felt that the surge would be so bad that life was unsustainable. They had everyone else stand pat so the mandatory evacs could get out.

Sometimes Texas stubbornness makes me a little sick to my stomach...

edit: Just heard that 20,000 of those people are on Galveston Island alone.. 7:20 PM

Welcome to Lake Surfside

every time they show the bridge to Surfside they are another couple hundred yards further inland. It looks like 4-5 ft of water is going almost half a mile into the mainland. I hope that guy got his permanent marker out before it got wet. It's not funny to joke about but I can not believe that guy wouldn't leave...

Goodbye Surfside, No Help for the Crazies

image from Click 2 Houston

From all the live videos I'm seeing, Surfside (and island south of Galveston) is basically gone. The whole island is underwater and the one guy who refuses to leave has been told to write his name and social on his arm so they can identify his body..woah.

Galveston still has an estimated 40% of people who were too dumb to evacuate. The island already has water all over it from the shots I've seen and it will probably go higher.

The outer rain bands look like they are about 2-3 hours from Galveston. I think things are going to go downhill pretty quickly from here.

The Potential Galveston Death Toll

Jim Cantori finally made his first appearance a few minutes ago... on Galveston Island. Uh oh.

What's more disturbing is that the seawall is already being topped by waves an hour and a half after low tide and there's much more to come.

With that being said, best estimates have less than 50% of Galveston evacuated so far. I really hope that the people still on the island come to their senses and get out of dodge before it's too late. Sheltering above the storm surge is one thing but sheltering under it is another...