Major search-and-rescue operation looms after 250,000 refuse to flee; the storm surge reached only 13.5 feet, rather the 25 foot surge that was feared by forecasters.
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Hurricane Ike lashes in Galveston on Saturday. Gov. Rick Perry mobilized 7,500 National Guard troops and his homeland security chief, Steve McGraw, said rescues would start as soon as crews could safely go out.
With the winds still blowing and many roads impassable, authorities in some places could not venture outside to get a full look at the damage, but they were encouraged that the storm surge topped out at only 13.5 feet — far lower than the catastrophic 20-to-25-foot wall of water forecasters had feared.
Documents, marked "highly confidential," were strewn across nearly empty streets.
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