We’ve just loaded up some images from Bill Olive of fires, rattlesnakes, boat thieves, flotsam, flooding, cracked trees and shattered boats in Galveston, Houston, League City, Texas City and Kemah. — Keith Plocek

This article appears in Sep 11-17, 2008.

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