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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Hurricane Ike caused 74 deaths in Harris and Galveston ... The following spring, Bill Merrell, a marine science professor at Texas A&M Galveston, began speaking publicly about a barrier system ...

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 ...

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

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

HOUSTON – I’ll never forget my first day on the job in Houston: July 15, 2003. It was supposed to be filled with HR meetings ...