Bolivar Peninsula and the Lion’s Den
flockwoodAn Associated Press article about Hurricane Ike includes the following unusual paragraph about hurricane recovery efforts on Bolivar Peninsula, a hard-hit barrier island on the Gulf of Mexico near Galveston:
“Of particular concern is a resident who collects exotic animals who is now holed up in a Baptist church with his pet lion. ‘We’re not going in there,’ [one would-be rescuer] said. ‘We know where he (the lion) is on the food chain.’”
