From what I was able to gather (my wife turned the TV on in the middle of the story) from a report on the "Today" Show, there is an island of the coast of Galveston where quite a few of the poorer residents are having to sit out the storm.
Seems they have little money to get away, or no vehicles. Sound familiar?
The people interviewed there were white, though. I wonder...will this cause the same great wailing and gnashing of teeth and chest-thumping that the poor blacks in New Orleans did? We'll see, but I somehow doubt it.