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Sep 12, 2018 · BRIDGE CITY — Thursday, September 13th, will mark the ten-year anniversary of Hurricane Ike making landfall in Southeast Texas. Thousands of homes remained underwater following a 13-foot...
Satellite image map of Hurricane Ike after landfall on the Texas Coast. Landfall had been predicted near Freeport, Texas, by the National Hurricane Center, as of Wednesday, September 10, 2008. However, the actual landfall was further east, over the east end of Galveston Island (near Texas City, TX), with the eye centered over Galveston Bay.
Hurricane Ike produced a damaging, destructive and deadly storm surge across the upper Texas and southwest Louisiana coasts, and will likely end up being the third costliest natural disaster in the United States behind Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Andrew. Post Storm Analyses. Tropical Cyclone Report - from the National Hurricane Center (3/18/14)
Hurricane Ike ( / aɪk /) was a powerful tropical cyclone that swept through portions of the Greater Antilles and Northern America in September 2008, wreaking havoc on infrastructure and agriculture, particularly in Cuba and Texas. Ike took a similar track to the 1900 Galveston hurricane.
Sep 16, 2008 · Bridge City, a community of 9,500 people, mostly oil refinery workers, was one of the hardest hit in southeast Texas. The city, bordered by the Neches River and Cow Bayou about 3 miles from the...
This photo-like image of the Texas and Louisiana coasts shows the impact of Hurricane Ike’s powerful storm surge on coastal wetlands. Hurricane Ike came ashore bringing with it a wall of water that stretched from Galveston, Texas, across all of coastal Louisiana.
Aug 26, 2017 · Learning from the past, Ike's storm surge flooded the homes of almost 9,000 people in Bridge City. "They had 5 1/2 foot of water in homes, it was pretty bad," Burnaman says.
