(September 13, 2008)—Hundreds of residents who left their Gulf Coast homes ahead of Hurricane Ike continued to ride out the storm Saturday in Central Texas.
Officials in coastal areas Saturday were urging residents who evacuated to wait until they get the all clear before attempting to return to their homes.
About 900 people were sheltered Saturday in Bell County, and one couple was celebrating a birth.
Allen and Olivia Garcia of Freeport were among the more than one million Texans who headed inland ahead of the storm.
Olivia Garcia gave birth to a baby boy, Allen Isaac Garcia, just after 8 p.m. Friday at Metroplex Adventist Hospital in Killeen.
In McLennan County, both the Emergency Operations Center and the official reception center evacuees continued to operate around the clock Saturday.
The Green Family Camp was providing shelter to 566 people; 24 special needs residents were housed at the City of Waco Multipurpose Center; 104 people were sheltered at G. L. Wiley School; 29 were at the College Avenue Baptist Church in McGregor; 96 were at the Crestview Church of Christ in Waco; 47 were at Seventh and James Baptist Church in Waco, and 50 were at the South Recreation Center, which was opened to evacuees Friday night.
The Waco Animal Shelter has taken in 137 evacuated pets and can handle at least another 100.
Nearly 300 evacuees were staying in shelters in Cameron in Milam County, many of them residents who found refuge in the county after evacuating ahead of Hurricane Rita three years ago.
The county’s emergency operations center began around the clock operations Friday.
Hill County is operating three shelters, the largest of which was housing nearly 500 people Friday.
Another shelters 25 special needs children and a third is providing shelter to 140 evacuees.
The reception center for Hill County shelters is also the Church of the Open Door at 900 N. Loop 340.
Whitney was planning to have about 80 cots and personal care packets at the old Whitney High School for residents who need to leave their homes because of flooding.
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