By Christopher Sherman
The Associated Press
GALVESTON, Texas — Rescue crews canvassed neighborhoods inundated by Ike’s storm surge early Sunday morning in a race against time to rescue those who faced a second harrowing night trapped amid flattened houses, strewn debris and downed power lines.
As darkness fell Saturday, a search and rescue squad began pushing into a neighborhood on a finger of land in Galveston Bay. Authorities hoped to spare thousands of Texans — 140,000 by some estimates — who ignored mandates to flee Hurricane Ike from another night among the destruction.
Paramedics, rescue dogs and structural engineers fanned out under a full moon, hoping to find the unknown number of people who remained trapped.
One 5-year-old boy escaped serious injury when he fell through an attic, weakened when storm surge sent a rush of water that washed out the first floor of his family’s home.