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After the Flood: Letter From Galveston

Vic Hinterlang/The Texas Observer
By Tom Curtis
The Texas Observer | October 8, 2008
As the cleanup continues, Galveston, like Tennessee Williams' Blanche DuBois, must rely on the kindness of strangers. As for those who do come back intending to stay, medical experts say a plague of pestilences, from tetanus to toxic mold, may await them. So does a state of emergency and a dawn-to-dusk curfew with a $2,000 fine for violators.
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Tags: Texas, FEMA, natural disasters, Hurricane Ike, flooding, Galveston

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