About the Author Mike Cox is the author of a dozen books on Texas history and other subjects.
He was the communications manager for the Texas Department of Transportation while Texas absorbed hundreds of thousands of evacuees during Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Before that, he spent fifteen years with the Texas Department of Public Safety as a public information officer and was a newspaper reporter--all good research for writing about disasters and rescue efforts in Texas.
Globe Pequot Press Texas disasters: true stories of tragedy and survival, paperback/mike cox
