'We're Resilient People': Port Aransas Mayor Says City Is Recovering Despite Receiving Little Help

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A beached oil drilling ship in Port Aransas on Aug. 28, 2017.


After Hurricane Harvey hit the small beach town of Port Aransas more than four months ago, the city’s mayor – flanked by a handful of city officials who had stayed on Mustang Island to ride out the storm – held a press conference in Port Aransas City Hall. The town had been pummeled by Harvey. 75 percent of its structures were destroyed.

Now the Corpus Christi Caller-Times has named Port Aransas Mayor Charles Bujan the newsmaker of the year.

Bujan says the devastation from Harvey is something unique – even to him, a native of Port Aransas.

“To be honest with you, my family’s lived here over 130 years so we know what hurricanes are and what they do,” he says. “This one was a bit different. It was more catastrophic than any I’ve seen.”

Read more: https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/2018/01/05/260132/were-resilient-people-port-aransas-mayor-says-city-is-recovering-despite-receiving-little-help/