I know no one is talking about it, but that doesn't mean it's not happening. The truth is, there is no master list of the missing. But Snarkfood has done a good job of compiling a list from the lists running on the websites of local Houston TV channels.
See it here.
The Laura Recovery Center for missing children has several missing persons posters listed here.
By the way, let me just head off the inevitable comments about all the stupid people who stayed behind and deserved to die for being so stupid. First of all, if you dropped dead every time you did something stupid, then, well, I wouldn't have to address such heartless comments, I guess, because you'd all be quite dead. But, much more importantly, most of the stories of people who ended up riding out the storm are terrifying tales of people abandoned by the government when the storm surge had already blocked all their possible exits from the island. They were trapped. And then they were dead. So, just, you know, crank up your compassion for a minute. Not everything is an opportunity for a joke or a judgment.
Click through to see the names.
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