There's a grocery store open for business on Galveston Island. Cell phone towers are connecting calls. More lights are coming back on at night. But for all the little signs of recovery in this barrier island community thrashed by Hurricane Ike nearly a week ago, Galveston just "isn't ready" for residents to return. Not even for a quick ...

Officials in Texas coastal communities flattened by Hurricane Ike begged residents to stay away Tuesday, insisting that it may be months before the area has basic services like clean water. Galveston County administrator Jim Yarbrough said he would resort to "whatever means necessary" to remove some 200 to 300 people still hunkered down on Bolivar Peninsula, a strip of land ...