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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.

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 Mexico and the mar

Motorists are rising before dawn so they can be at the filling station when the delivery truck arrives. Some are skipping work or telecommuting. Others are taking the extreme step — for Atlanta — of switching to public transportation.

In Cuba, the political ramifications that hurricanes present are tallied along with the physical damages.

Two weeks after Hurricane Ike blew through Southeast Texas, cowboys on horseback and in helicopters are still trying to round up thousands of head of displaced cattle.

By Esteban Israel HAVANA, Sept 24 (Reuters) - Hurricanes Gustav and Ike destroyed up to 2 million pounds of Cuba's best tobacco, but reserves of the leaf should cover demand for the island's premium cigars for the next year, a tobacco executive...

When the waves from Hurricane Ike receded, they left behind a mystery — a ragged shipwreck that archeologists say could be a two-masted Civil War schooner that ran aground in 1862 or another ship from some 70 years later. The wreck, about six miles from

Ike Uncovers Mystery Civil War-Era Shipwreck, Hurricane Ike unearthed a mystery ship wreck from 1862.

As many evacuees tried in vain to get back to their homes, Galveston and other communities hit hard by Hurricane Ike struggled to restore basic services. The total U.S. death toll topped 50, and millions remained without power.

Millions of people followed Hurricane Gustav and Hurricane Ike online -- and now, you can see aerial images of the storms' aftermath from your computer, too.