When Hurricane Ike roared into Texas on Sept. 13, 2008, the Galveston County District Clerk’s Office lost one box of records and sustained damage to 677 other boxes of records stored in a warehouse. A year later, District Clerk Latonia Wilson is still trying to find funding to restore and preserve the county’s historical records.

“What I’m afraid of is, if we don’t find the funding to preserve these documents, we will lose a treasure,” Wilson says.

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