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Rock Talk, Vol. IX
- Though we have 10 weeks left in hurricane season, there's good news: The odds are strongly against another storm hitting Texas this year
- Houston motorists could see a lot more traffic signals fixed in the next week, the city says
- Sure, the number of people with lights out was bad, but this is even worse: During Ike, Southeast Texas was pretty close to a total electrical grid shutdown
- Mayor Bill White has set up four Ike-related committees within City Council
- Some 250,000 people in the Houston area still don't have running water, the state says, and there may be another 600,000 in the same situation
- Harris County toll roads will stop being free on Saturday, the toll road authority said
- Galveston Mayor Lyda Ann Thomas ended the city's state of emergency Wednesday after the City Council enacted a one-year "declaration of disaster"
- Meanwhile, the island was open for the first time to most residents Wednesday: 'I thought I was going to come back to something, but I've got nothing,' one Galvestonian said
- Galveston's port expects to have both of its cruise ship terminals in operation by Oct. 1
- Elsewhere in Galveston County, officials agreed yesterday to move the county seat from Galveston temporarily; it'll now be located in Texas City ... and League City
- And, are Galveston County officials actually hiding Ike victims' bodies in FEMA trucks, as the rumors claim? Uh, no
- The Kemah Boardwalk will begin to re-open next month, according to Tilman Fertitta
- The body of a woman who is believed to have drowned during Ike was found Wednesday during a search of a debris field in Chambers County
- Bolivar residents and property owners will be able to "look and leave" beginning Friday
- Yes, Ike will probably cost insurance companies as much as $11 billion — but that's no reason to panic about your rates, the Texas insurance commissioner says
- What's that in your pool? A jellyfish, courtesy of Ike
- City employees and contractors have picked up almost 10,000 truckloads of debris so far — and that's just the beginning
- Something else the Ike-related debris that will be collected in the Houston area could fill, if you like such comparisons: the Great Liberty County Sinkhole
- Ike's environmental impact could have been worse, state and federal officials said after an initial assessment
- But the impact on the Gulf Coast's seafood industry didn't come out so well — it's almost at a standstill
- In Seguin today, a whole lot of ice melted on an air field runway, the result of FEMA surpluses
- And, speaking of FEMA, the agency will pay for up to six months of temporary housing for some Ike victims
- Is 2008 the costliest hurricane season ever for Texas, in terms of today's dollars? Yep: At $28.2 billion, it easily tops the list
- Today's weather: Sunny! Hot! High of 87, low of 62 — but the good news is that the humidity's dropping, so the nights and mornings will be a lot better for the next few days. Enjoy!
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