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Devastating Ike roars ashore in Galveston, Texas


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UPDATE

 

Authorities have reported a total of 39 deaths in 10 states as Ike moved from Texas northeastward across the U.S. midsection.

 

Below is a breakdown of where the deaths occurred.

 

Texas -- 10, including one person found in a submerged vehicle in Galveston and a 4-year-old Houston boy dead of apparent carbon monoxide poisoning from an emergency generator.

 

Louisiana -- six, including a 16-year-old boy trapped in rising water.

 

Tennessee -- two, both golfers killed by a falling tree.

 

Arkansas -- one, a woman killed by a tree falling on a mobile home.

 

Ohio -- five, including four by falling trees and one person electrocuted while working on a generator.

 

Indiana -- seven, including a father and son killed helping children escape from a ditch.

 

Illinois -- two, including an elderly man found in a flooded backyard.

 

Missouri -- four, including a woman struck by a tree limb and an elderly man suspected of drowning in a flooded yard.

 

Kentucky -- one, a 10-year-old boy struck by a tree limb while mowing a lawn.

 

Pennsylvania -- one, a 46-year-old man struck by tree limb while helping remove a large tree from a house.

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<< Tennessee -- two, both golfers killed by a falling tree. >>

 

 

Figures. What's a little storm to golfers. :p

 

 

p.s. 'Crazy jarhead' stays behind in Surfside

 

SURFSIDE BEACH â?? Ray Wilkinson doesn't consider himself a hero for being the only Surfside Beach resident to ride out Hurricane Ike in his home.

 

Rather, the 67-year-old Marine Corps veteran considers himself to be the only one "stupid enough" to stay behind.

 

"I'm just a crazy, old hardhead," said Wilkinson, while sitting on the front porch of his Fort Velasco Boulevard apartment today. "I didn't say I had all my marbles."

 

 

 

Semper Fi

 

 

 

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