nyc;4078932 said:
I've seen this several times though it's been a couple of years since I last seen it. It's definitely worth watching. A great story.
A lot of the quotes they use, with waaaaay over the top accents that bug the crap out of me, are directly lifted from the A&M files.
One specifically I remember reading was that someone's mother started screaming because as each wave hit, the wall and roof at the rear of the house were coming apart. That, and someone's mother or father going outside, getting an ax, and chopping holes in the floor so the water would come in and not tear the house off of it's foundations.
They pretty much skipped over how long afterwards they were finding bodies and how strict martial law was. If you were caught bending over while looking at a body on the beach you were considered a looter and shot on sight because you were probably stealing jewelry which was the only way they had to identify some folks as their entire families were dead.
There was one anecdote of someone getting caught out on the beach at night by US Army soldier who were stationed on the Island and in charge of security. They found him with a pocketful of rings and necklaces. Lined him up to shoot him right there, but his wife comes out from a behind a rubble pile. Same deal, both had been looting dead bodies. She was pregnant, so they were both allowed to live.
The last survivor found was found at sea, floating on a debris raft. That's one reason the death toll is so varied. Once the eye wall passed over the Island, it pushed a lot of people who were floating on debris out into the GOM.
It was a weekend, so Galveston had a lot of weekend visitors from the main land. Heck, they mention how many saloons there were, one on every block of downtown. Nobody really has any idea how many people had come into town for the weekend, and disappeared.
