Stories tagged "hurricaneike"

As if normal teenage angst weren't enough, mental health workers worry that Houston-area children may also be stressing over Hurricane Ike and the faltering economy.

Beyond the usual, dismal rebuilding, Hurricane Ike left another grim task when it struck last month: Its 13-foot storm surge washed an estimated 200 caskets out of their graves, ripping through most of Cameron Parish's 47 cemeteries and others...

In early September 2008 Southeast Texas was hit with one of the worst hurricanes in its history. Hurricane Ike, making landfall as a category two hurricane peaked at a 5.1 hurricane while still out in the Gulf of Mexico. In total, Hurricane Ike...

The final hours brought the awful realization to victims of Hurricane Ike that they had waited too long. This storm wasn't like the others, the ones that left nothing worse than a harrowing tale to tell.

At least a half million gallons of crude oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico and the marshes, bayous and bays of Louisiana and Texas, according to an analysis of federal data by The Associated Press.

WASHINGTON - Hurricane Ike's winds and massive waves destroyed oil platforms, tossed storage tanks and punctured pipelines. The environmental damage only now is becoming apparent: At least a half million gallons of crude oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexic

Three weeks after Hurricane Ike hit Texas, at least 34 people from the Bolivar Peninsula, where the storm did the worst damage, are missing and some are presumed dead.

A paleontologist whose beachfront home in Texas was destroyed during Hurricane Ike has found a football-size tooth in the debris.

Alligators loom over submerged cars. Mountains of debris are embedded in the ground. Cows, trucks and the remnants of homes are sunk into the ocean. And unverified sightings of missing loved ones are still making the rounds.

Ike caused some damage to some of the massive oil drilling rigs in the Gulf of Mexico, but even more to refineries and pipelines along the Gulf Coast, and that's slowed - or stopped - the delivery of gas and diesel to several states in the Southeast.