In Texas the state has a department of Parks and Wildlife. In times like the last week (Hurricane Ike, tropical storm Lowell), the State Game Wardens are, literally, lifesavers.
Hurricanes are emergencies. State agencies help people evacuate. TP&WD is no exception.

Say a prayer for all the firefighters, police officers, EMTs, and game wardens out there, if you would, so that they don't find the horrorshow that awaited emergency and rescue forces after Katrina; and so that, unlike after Katrina and Rita, life can return to something resembling normal along the Gulf coast.

Its as if I went to sleep and woke up at the end of Capital . I found This article at karmabanque
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The widening chasm between rich and poor may well threaten our democracy. Yet if that banker's lament staggers your brain as it did mine, you're on your way to seeing why America's income gap is arguably less likely to spark a retro fight between proletarians and capitalists than a war between what I call the "lower upper class" and the ultrarich. Read more…