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Absent the turmoil in financial markets, the devastation left by Hurricane Ike along the Gulf coast of Texas would have been Story of the Day. ABC's Ryan Owens (embargoed link) traveled by boat across Galveston Bay to the Bolivar peninsula, a community "covered in several inches of mud." The bay is "a body of water now littered with people's belongings, parts of homes, water heaters, even cattle." NBC's Janet Shamlian and CBS' Mark Strassmann were on Galveston Island, where the bridge from the mainland was closed with evacuated residents prohibited from returning. "Conditions are primitive," Shamlian declared. "There is no running water, no power, no food, no gas, no communications, no shelter." ABC's Sharyn Alfonsi and NBC's Don Teague filed from the mainland in Houston where FEMA had opened 20-or-so distribution centers, handing out ice, water and food. Most of Houston is still without electricity yet its "water supply is operating," Teague reassured us. "Storm clean-up is progressing and the damage to the city is less than initially feared."
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