After Hurricane Ike sent as much as 15 feet of water ... built with Ike recovery funds in a wealthy Houston suburb. Loren Elliott for The Texas Trib It’s not clear how the housing money from ...

HOUSTON, Texas -- It was Sept. 13, 2008, when Hurricane Ike ripped through the Houston area, claiming the lives of dozens in Texas. The powerful category 2 storm ravaged the Gulf Coast after ...

HOUSTON — Hurricane Ike, a colossal storm nearly as big as Texas itself, began battering the coast Friday, threatening to obliterate waterfront towns and give the skyscrapers, refineries and ...

The long-envisioned Ike Dike project, which is awaiting federal funding, entails constructing a multifaceted barrier system ...

ABOARD U.S. COAST GUARD SEARCH AND RESCUE — The big orange Jayhawk chopper banked hard to the left, revealing what remained of a stretch of beach on the Bolivar Peninsula south of Houston.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency swooped into Texas before Hurricane Ike’s storm surge had subsided ... Rick Perry’s office, said Allan Van Fleet, a Houston attorney who serves on ...

"After Hurricane Ike hit Houston, Texas in 2008, this house was left standing while everything else was demolished," reads the text of an Oct. 5 Instagram post. "This is the same house where an ...

For Houston, it would be the first major hurricane since Alicia in August ... levee manager for Terrebonne Parish. Though Ike was heading for Texas, it spawned thunderstorms, shut down schools ...

Officials in Galveston are extending mandatory hurricane evacuation notices from 36 to 60 hours in advance of the weather due ...

It outranked most of Houston’s past major storms with ... reported in the immediate aftermath of 2008’s Hurricane Ike – one of Texas’ deadliest storms. Though rainfall leading up to ...