Texas Guard helps South Texas victims

A convoy of five-ton trucks loaded with food, water and ice head across the causeway to South Padre Island to set up a distribution point for victims of Hurricane Dolly. Photo by AF Staff Sgt. Bennie Davis SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas -- For close to a quarter million people, a calm is beginning to settle across the South Texas Rio Grande region after the relentless lashing that Hurricane Dolly doled out. This calm is due in part by the relief efforts of strike task forces that set out before dawn July 24 to set up points of distribution across 15 counties. "The unity of effort between the state operations center, the county judges, the disaster district controllers, Texas Military Forces and all the agencies associated with the hurricane relief is really phenomenal," said Air Force Col. John Nichols, Joint Task Force commander,... [read full story]