Go Fish Galvez

Well, I just feel so badly, having seemingly abandoned Old Galvez for all these weeks. But I actually didn’t, not really.

Before the storm, as Ike approached, she was all that was on my mind, and I was glued to CNN and The Weather Channel as Ike took a bead on this vulnerable little sandbar community.

And I kept after the coverage, too, for at least as long as the national media deemed it lucrative to cover. Which, as it turned out, wasn’t long. And after that, mostly silence.

News of the Galveston hurricane fell from the headlines almost as rapidly as it made them, and soon I found it increasingly difficult to keep a pulse on things there. And so the weeks went by. Read the rest of this entry »