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By Kevin Moran, Staff
Houston Chronicle © 2006
April 14, 2006
ORLANDO, FLA. - It was Hurricane Lili in 2002 that set former Kemah Mayor Bill King off on a one-man crusade to keep thousands of his coastal Texas neighbors from being injured or killed by a catastrophic hurricane.
"Hurricane Lili was a relatively small storm that came up and was forecast to make a hard right-hand turn into Louisiana but was headed straight for us," King recalled.
"Lili made that turn, but it ballooned overnight into a Category 4 storm. I began wondering and asking questions about what would have happened to us if Lili had not made that turn, and I didn't like the answers I got."
King recalled the events after he received an award Thursday at the National Hurricane Conference for his work in the last four years to make Texans safer from tropical storms.
In 2002, King even found out that Kemah, one of the most vulnerable spots on Galveston Bay to storm surges, did not have an evacuation plan.
King, a lawyer, did a lot of homework and became as knowledgeable as any public official in the state about hurricanes, storms surges and other deadly threats to coastal residents.
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