Is Geraldo Rivera going to survive Hurricane Ike?

[JaneEyre]

He is still on Galveston Island along with 40% of the inhabitants of that island. The reports are that if they don't leave, they will face "certain death"....I know the reporters are supposed to be headed for a large hotel when it gets too rough - which should be within a few hours.

Let's pray for those in the path of this hurricane. My concern is not so much about Geraldo but all the others in its path.

I think it is codswallop that he is still there.

[Sherri]

Originally Posted by JaneEyre

He is still on Galveston Island along with 40% of the inhabitants of that island. The reports are that if they don't leave, they will face "certain death"....I know the reporters are supposed to be headed for a large hotel when it gets too rough - which should be within a few hours.

Let's pray for those in the path of this hurricane. My concern is not so much about Geraldo but all the others in its path.

I think it is codswallop that he is still there.

LOL! I had never heard this word, so I had to go look it up on wikipedia!!

[MissBrattified]

Originally Posted by JaneEyre

He is still on Galveston Island along with 40% of the inhabitants of that island. The reports are that if they don't leave, they will face "certain death"....I know the reporters are supposed to be headed for a large hotel when it gets too rough - which should be within a few hours.

Let's pray for those in the path of this hurricane. My concern is not so much about Geraldo but all the others in its path.

I think it is codswallop that he is still there.

LOL!!!!!

Well, Geraldo...all I can say about that man is:


He was pretty hilarious a couple of weeks ago, running up to the water lapping over the levee in New Orleans to touch the overflow and then running away with his cameraman in tow.

Comic relief at best, downright annoying at worst.

[Sister Alvear]

all should get out is my opinion..

[JaneEyre]

Look at how beautiful Galveston Island is!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4BzYNRkTo4

Gotta remember Glen Campbell's song about a soldier during the Vietnam War wishing he were back in Galveston.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIUPCfIihQ4

[JaneEyre]

Images of Galveston

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfYJKpLX1xw

From YouTube:

This song was written by Jimmy Webb who is an idiosyncratic American popular music composer, singer and pianist. While his approach to composing is traditional and orchestral, he wrote for the rock/pop age. Webb's most popular songs were all composed when he was between 19 and 21 years of age during the Vietnam War. In 1969 he wrote "Galveston", a song about an American soldier who pined for his hometown and his girlfriend. I have always thought of it as an Anti-War song. Glen Campbell popularized the song with an almost marching military beat that I dislike.

Jimmy Webb recently performed it himself, in the way he intended it, slow and reflective. I've added some images that the song creates for me. The statue in the video is a memorial to the estimated 10,000 people lost in the hurricane of 1900 that swept through the beaches of Galveston. The devastating hurricane still holds the record as the United States' deadliest natural disaster.

LYRICS to Galveston:

Galveston, oh Galveston, I still hear your sea winds blowin'
I still see her dark eyes glowin'
She was 21 when I left Galveston

Galveston, oh Galveston, I still hear your sea waves crashing
While I watch the cannons flashing
I clean my gun and dream of Galveston

I still see her standing by the water
Standing there lookin' out to sea
And is she waiting there for me?
On the beach where we used to run

Galveston, oh Galveston, I am so afraid of dying
Before I dry the tears she's crying
Before I watch your sea birds flying in the sun
At Galveston, at Galveston.

I read this at YouTube:

Galveston was occupied by US Army during WW2. "Huge" concrete bunkers were constructed along Galveston beaches (much like Normandy). The concrete bunkers, along with the accompanying cannons/artillery..were all "looking out to sea", waiting for any possible invasion during the war. "I can see the cannons flashing"..to many people in Texas, this would refer to sunlight reflecting off the cannons located within the concrete bunkers. Many of the large concrete bunkers still remain in Galveston.