Both travelers and coastal residents will see improvements to popular Texas beaches and dunes, which will be a boon to ...

A major hurricane could shut down one of the country’s largest energy and petrochemical hubs. But a decadeslong effort to ...

Hurricane season just started in the Atlantic and even though it's quite for now coastal communities aren't taking chances.

The projects by a group at Rice University is designed to complement the Ike Dike to help protect people along the Gulf Coast ...

Estimated to cost $7 billion, the Galveston Bay Park Plan is a new storm surge defense plan that aims to protect the Greater ...

One memory from that storm still sticks with me: Two lives were lost, but not during the storm itself; they happened ...

Meteorologist Chita Craft has a list of everything you need to have in your hurricane preparedness kit: You may be asked or ...

About time, some say. The area is immensely vulnerable to storm surge from a hurricane, which could push a wave of water into homes on Galveston Island and up the Houston Ship Channel ...

"Storm surge" is defined as the abnormal water level that rises above the typical tide during a tropical event.

SAN LEON, Texas (KTRK) -- As Tropical Storm Beryl barrels toward the Texas coast, businesses up and down Galveston Bay are ... in four hours after a storm surge. So we're ready for it.

It is estimated that Ida’s winds and storm surge caused about $55 billion of damage in Louisiana. In 2008, Ike, a Category 2 hurricane that made landfall near Galveston Island in Texas ...

Our barrier islands took a beating from Alberto’s storm surge. Galveston Bay and nearby barrier islands saw two to four feet of storm surge roll onto the island. For communities on the Bolivar ...