'Alligator Capital' hit hard by Ike

Courtesy MSNBC.com: Life  Tue, 09/30/2008 - 16:52

Roger Abshier, right, pulls an alligator out of an airboat as Mark Porter, center, and Jason Henicke, left, watch during a hunting trip on Sept. 25 in Anahuac, Texas.<br /><br />Each fall hundreds of out-of-towners pay local guides big bucks for the chance to kill a 13-foot-long reptile during the alligator hunting season.In this town on the edge of the Trinity Bay, alligators normally outnumber people three to one, and the annual Texas GatorFest draws 30,000 people — more than 10 times the town's population.

But not this year, not with Hurricane Ike.


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