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Tree art restores hope to recovering community
Hurricane Ike tore through Galveston Sept. 13, 2008, with a storm surge of 15 feet covering the island with petroleum laced salt water. Ultimately, the salt water from the storm’s surge left thousands of trees dead, including the 100-year-old live oaks that lined Broadway Boulevard.
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Surviving the storm: An islander’s experience
The power had gone out and the sounds outside were like the sound track to a bad disaster film. My mother and I, along with three others, hadn’t evacuated very far from our home on the west end of Galveston Island; we were in Santa Fe and about to use every ounce of strength our bodies possessed.
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Galveston Tree Artist
James Phillips is an artist who has been making sculptures from trees damaged by Hurricane Ike in Galveston.
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