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I just got home from deployment yesterday. We first went to Atlanta, staging in anticipation of Ike landing in Miami. Then it changed course, crossing over Cuba as a strong Cat 4 storm, into the Caribbean Ocean, and then back over Cuba one more time before setting its sights on the Galveston, TX region very early Saturday, September 13th. There is A LOT of damage in Texas and Southwestern Louisiana. Not just Galveston, but Beaumont, Palestine, and other cities also. Houston also sustained major damage from hurricane Ike. In fact, the tallest building in Texas had most of its windows on one side completely blown out, most likely due to a pressure gradient caused when Ike pushed on the other side of the building.

We ended up at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston on Saturday, after Ike made landfall, providing care to the special needs population that arrived, primarily by ambulance and bus. It was a wonderfully fulfilling and successful mission for us.

The armada of ambulances, staged and ready to transport patients to local hospitals, and for long distance transport to San Antonio.