TEXAS CITY, Texas — A massive rescue effort along the Texas coast, including a house-to-house search in Galveston, has saved nearly 2,000 people stranded by the fury of Hurricane Ike.
Authorities said at a news conference Sunday afternoon that 1,984 people had been rescued so far, including 394 by air. Another 600 were rescued from flooding in neighboring Louisiana.
Although 1.2 million Texans fled the area, before the storm, tens of thousands, perhaps as many as 140,000, defied authorities and refused to leave.
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