Galveston's Faithful

So, this NY Times story paints the 100 or so out of the 60,000 residents of Galveston to be mostly those of faith.

The Lord doesn't want us going. He wants me carrying this flag.
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I told him I was staying right here, not running to some big expensive hotel. I have faith in God.

And another one staying put was a surfer. Another a grocery store owner who didn't want his store looted stating I'm not leaving anything to chance. We saw what happened in New Orleans.

But it ends with a man who lost his brother to Katrina just outside of New Orleans:

Choking back tears, Mr. Christian said his brother, who lived just outside New Orleans, fell victim to Hurricane Katrina. "I done seen my brother in a body bag, and I don't want to be in one," he said. "Katrina got him being stupid like me."

"It's either get out of here or get packed in a body bag."

It seems as if most of Galveston's empty. But many of them could be stuck on the day-long traffic jams clogging up the routes out of southeast Texas. Someone in the office was just talking about how he heard people moving eleven miles in eleven hours on the highways now. I wonder if people biked or are biking inland.