Door-to-door searches continued Monday in a number of coastal towns in Texas that were battered by Hurricane Ike.

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Crews said they don't know if there are any fatalities in subdivisions destroyed by the storm.

At least 32 people have been killed by Ike and by remnants of Ike in Texas and eight other states. The storm also is responsible for power outages from Texas to Illinois, on to Ohio, Kentucky and New York.

Nearly 2,000 people in Texas who refused orders to evacuate before Ike have been rescued by land, air and water.

"Priority 1 is search and rescue," Texas Homeland Security Director Steve McCraw said. "Thus far, 394 by air have been rescued and overall, 1,948 citizens down here have been rescued."

"There's not a square foot of Galveston Island, and for that matter southeast Texas, that will not be searched and, when people are found, rescued," McCraw said. Officials in Galveston, where Ike came ashore early Saturday, are urging residents who evacuated to stay away for now.

Galveston Mayor Lyda Ann Thomas said residents who evacuated should not even think about coming home now, reported KPRC-TV in Houston.

"Do not come back to Galveston," she said. "You cannot live here at this time."

Gov. Rick Perry said: "It is pretty obvious that there is substantial and long-term damage done to Galveston Island."

Nearly 1.5 million homes and businesses had no electricity Monday. However, restoring power in some places could take as long as a month.

Flooding touched off by a half-foot or more of rain is reported in parts of Illinois, Indiana and Missouri.

Also, rescuers are flying into areas cut off by the storm and are evacuating survivors.

The Texas helicopter task force flew 115 rescuers onto the heavily damaged resort barrier island of Bolivar Peninsula. It found a scene of devastation, with whole subdivisions obliterated. The area is home to about 30,000 people in the peak summer beach season.

Bush: Ike Pinches Energy Supply

President George W. Bush said Hurricane Ike has placed a pinch on the energy supply, driving up prices and frustration.

After a briefing on hurricane recovery efforts, the president said Monday that he was concerned about the "upward pressure" on prices for consumers.

He said he was planning to visit Texas, where Ike came ashore early Saturday at Galveston. The eye missed the center of Houston, as well as the largest concentrations of oil and gas refineries, but it left many without homes or power.

Bush said it was good news that the hurricane did not damage the infrastructure as much as some people feared. He said he would bring a message to Texas on Tuesday saying the government is working fast to help people recover.

Assessing Damage

Federal officials also said it appears Ike destroyed at least 10 production platforms in the Gulf of Mexico and damaged some pipelines.

The full extent of the damage from the storm, including the amount of fuel capacity involved, hasn't been determined, but initial reports suggest no real damage to oil infrastructure from Ike.

The first aid has arrived as Texas begins the long, laborious task of cleaning up after the storm, which ravaged the state and prompted a weeklong curfew in Houston.

FEMA trucks filled with emergency supplies for Hurricane Ike victims have been delivered to the first five of 17 locations. But there was confusion regarding who would deliver the items to the locations, also called point of distributions or PODs, KPRC Local 2 reported Sunday.

Ice, meals, water and other emergency supplies will be available to residents because of widespread power outages and damaged homes.

But, some confusion between city, state and federal officials may have delayed the deliveries.

"At one time we were told that the state government would take the various pallets of food, water, ice to particular sites we designated, and handle the logistics and setting up the site at individual locations. We wanted to do it locally. We thought we could do it more efficiently," said Houston Mayor Bill White. "I found out this afternoon that the state had said it wanted FEMA to do that. FEMA said it would deliver, but it didn't have the trucks or people to do the off-loading."

White said local governments would now handle the tasks.

Problems Uncovered As Ike Moves On

Perry said an investigation is planned into why staff at a public housing complex in Houston apparently left elderly residents without care overnight during Hurricane Ike.

Perry said many of the residents of the federally subsidized Independence Hall complex have medical problems and needed help.

After residents complained, a FEMA task force showed up at 2 a.m. Sunday and checked on them. The agency said the force checked again during daylight hours and that residents who wanted to leave were taken to a shelter at a convention center.

Of a total 260 residents, about 50 went to the center. Some others went to stay with family members.

The property manager said she couldn't really force residents to leave, but could just "keep an eye" on those who stayed.