I want the message to be to our citizens that the City of Galveston is on top of this and very prepared to respond to this event.

275

Whatever happens is going to happen and we are going to have a monumental task ahead of us once the storm passes. Galveston is going to suffer and we are going to need to get it back in order as soon as possible.

238

It feels like a ghost town to me. And that's a good thing.

231

We're going to experience a significant amount of flooding. We could for a short time be completely under, and then come out of it after a couple of hours. But we're more than likely to be completely flooded.

207

We feel a little sense of relief. The projected path now puts Galveston on the clean side as opposed to the dirty side.

184

It's not a good picture for us at this point. We're in for a historic storm.

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