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What does BP stand for?

Bolivar Peninsula (near Galveston Island, TX, USA)


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Samples in periodicals archive:
4 million plan comes just a year after Hurricane Ike's powerful storm surge damaged thousands of homes in Galveston, the neighboring Bolivar Peninsula and other communities across southeast Texas.
Some 3,600 homes and other structures on Bolivar Peninsula were washed away to the mainland or were severely damaged.
The paved strip pokes south like a pin along Bolivar Peninsula, a finger of land that parallels the mainland before ending in the Gulf of Mexico near Galveston.
Galveston County administrator Jim Yarbrough said he would resort to "whatever means necessary" to remove some 200 to 300 people still hunkered down on Bolivar Peninsula, a strip of land all but swept clean by Ike's massive storm surge.
Almost three days after the storm steamrollered the coast, trescue teams finally reaching some of the hardest-hit places, including the Bolivar peninsula, a resort on Galveston Bay where entire neighbourhoods were wiped out.
The sternest warning came for residents on Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsula - both under mandatory evacuation orders.
Last spring I watched as crews of college students patrolled the beaches on Bolivar Peninsula in Galveston, doing the spring clean-up to rid the shore of accumulated debris.
Of the 250 communities listed in Wyndham Financial Group's study, the most affordable is Bolivar Peninsula, Texas, where a typical house is in the $60,000 range.

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