Hurricane Ike hits me where I used to live: Crystal Beach, Texas
Crystal Beach is on the Bolivar Peninsula. It's kind of above Galveston. It's point A, like this: View Larger Map I don't know about you, but I haven't seen or read much in the mainstream media about the devastation of Bolivar Peninsula caused by Ike. The guestimates so far are that 80% of civilization on the peninsula is gone. Just gone. Poof. There were a lot of high dollar houses in Crystal Beach, most of them being vacation homes. I guess I've been getting my information from "social media technologies." I read about it on a post on a blog of social media for a PR Class, "Houston media relies on social media in the wake of Ike." Sure 'nuff, that's what I've been doing. I wasn't seeing much of anything on the news or weather channels and I was worried about my friends who live on the peninsula full time. So I went online looking for info. First I found ABC13's live video. There I heard a reporter reaming the ...