{"id":470,"date":"2008-09-18T07:24:49","date_gmt":"2008-09-18T13:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=470"},"modified":"2008-10-01T08:47:28","modified_gmt":"2008-10-01T14:47:28","slug":"hurricane-ike-death-toll-could-take-years-to-finalize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/national-weather\/hurricane-ike-death-toll-could-take-years-to-finalize\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Ike death toll could take years to finalize"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Searchers
Searchers go through houses in Crystal Beach, Texas on Monday in the wake of Hurricane Ike. Smiley Pool \/ Houston Chronicle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Recovery efforts from Hurricane Ike continue in Texas in the wake of the devastating storm.\u00a0 The death toll in the state stands at 17 however tens of thousands of people chose not to evacuate and officials are concerned the actual toll is much greater than that.\u00a0 It could take years for a full accounting of the missing to happen as it is thought that some that stayed behind and chose to ride the storm out were simply washed away into the Gulf of Mexico.<\/p>\n

Search and rescue personnel have completed a search for survivors and the Red Cross is now performing welfare checks on people named by relatives.\u00a0 An estimated 90,000 people stayed behind and accounting for them will be virtually impossible.\u00a0 The death toll will of course not climb to that high of a number but it is expected that at least some of that number will never be accounted for.
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\nIn the coastal town of Crystal Beach, the stench of rotting animals and livestock permeated the air where dozens stayed behind.\u00a0 One account told of a survivor seeing a friend pulled out to see when she couldn\u2019t hold onto the rafters of a home.<\/p>\n

\"Seabrook,
Seabrook, TX police officer Jeff Galyean hugs his 4th grade teacher, Sue Harral, on Tuesday in front of her home. The house was swept into the middle of the street and was several hundred feet from its foundation. Mark Wilson \/ Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recovery efforts from Hurricane Ike continue in Texas in the wake of the devastating storm.\u00a0 The death toll in the state stands at 17 however tens of thousands of people chose not to evacuate and officials are concerned the actual toll is much greater than that.\u00a0 It could take years for a full accounting of … Continue reading Hurricane Ike death toll could take years to finalize<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[58],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":475,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions\/475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}