Hundreds of people still remain missing three weeks after Ike's assault on Texas coast. Various agencies are giving estimates ranging from 300 to 400 people missing.
Even though evacuation orders were in place along the Texas coast before hurricane Ike's landfall, many residents had decided to ride out the storm. Latest estimates put hundreds missing and many of those stayed behind may have perished. Houston Chronicle
reports that 400 people may be missing while according to the nonprofit Laura Recovery Center, about
300 people are missing.
With many coastal communities obliterated , It is feared that at least some of it's residents may be buried in the muddy debris, or washed out to sea. Searchers say countless cars have been spotted in the flood waters and marshes along the coast. Although It's impossible to tell which of them were occupied during the storm, a few of them may had passengers when washed away.
After an analysis of calls logged to a hot line set up by the nonprofit Laura Recovery Center to help find those missing , executive director Bob Walcutt said
About 60 of the missing lived on the Bolivar Peninsula. More than 200 were listed as missing on Galveston Island itself. However, the number "goes up and down by the minute" as people call in to remove or add names.
Galveston County emergency management spokesman Colin Rizzo said
The task is massive and the terrain is perilous, thick with snakes, alligators and mosquitoes.There are definitely going to be people from Hurricane Ike that are never found.
Meanwhile, the death toll from the hurricane
reached 35 in Texas after two more bodies were recovered from the debris in Galveston today.
Hundreds still missing after Hurricane Ike
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