Mymi Freedman's memories of Hurricane Ike's immediate aftermath still linger, especially in one sense.
Anne Willis, a lifelong resident of Bolivar Peninsula, moved back to her hometown of Crystal Beach nearly three months after Hurricane Ike.
It has been dubbed the "Ike Dike" — a 55-mile barrier, 17 feet high, that would be built along the Texas Gulf Coast to fend off the sort of devastating flooding inflicted by last year's Hurricane Ike.
Millions of mosquito eggs laid across southern Texas after Hurricane Ike hit the coast last summer are waiting for the little bit of rain and hot summer days they need to hatch. That's got the man whose job it is to fight the bugs worried — he's already running out of money.
Another hurricane season is the last thing Galveston wants to think about after last year's devastation from Hurricane Ike.
A fire has destroyed at least 60 condos in a Galveston, Texas, beachfront development that was being rebuilt after being damaged by Hurricane Ike.
It's taking a while for one consequence of Hurricane Ike to become clear — nine months, to be exact.
Good news has been in short supply since Hurricane Ike laid waste to much of this island beach town six months ago Friday.
The federal government is giving $60 million to Texas' emergency management division for costs incurred during Hurricane Ike.
Hundreds of revelers gathered Saturday to celebrate an annual Mardi Gras tradition in a show of support for this island ravaged by Hurricane Ike's powerful storm surge just five months ago.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has denied nearly 650,000 applications for housing aid after Hurricane Ike hit southeast Texas, finding that nearly 90 percent of all claimants were ineligible for FEMA help.
Texas is sitting on $134 million in unpaid bills from the emergency response to Hurricane Ike and blames the federal government for failing to take care of the bulk of them.
A contractor helping clear debris from Hurricane Ike is looking for the owner of an ammunition box he found buried in sand that contained keepsakes, including an 1863 Confederate $50 bill, war medals and diamond earrings.
Classes will resume Tuesday at Texas A&M-Galveston; for the first regular semester since Hurricane Ike.
Hurricane Ike was the big storm Texas officials feared would hit the coast. Now comes the hard task of paying for it.
Galveston officials pleaded with state lawmakers Wednesday for help in rescuing their island city from the dire financial straits it finds itself in nearly four months after the devastation of Hurricane Ike.
Her boots, jeans and sweat shirt splattered with mud, Janet Lagow Lewis stretched barbed wire across metal posts, rebuilding a portion of her 38 miles of fencing that Hurricane Ike washed away.
Hurricane Ike battered Kroger Co.'s third-quarter profits, and the grocery chain offered a cautious forecast Tuesday amid the churning U.S. economic storm.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry has requested $300 million in federal money to get temporary housing for victims of Hurricane Ike.
Reyna Martinez, a 30-year-old Honduran immigrant, wanted to help Texas recover from Hurricane Ike and earn a good wage at the same time.
In New Orleans, a dire warning to flee emptied the city before Hurricane Gustav in early September. In Houston less than two weeks later, a plea to "hunker down" might have kept evacuation routes from clogging before Hurricane Ike struck.
The federal government will pay Hurricane Ike debris-removal costs in Texas for six more months, but Gov. Rick Perry's office said the extension is inadequate.
Gov. Rick Perry on Thursday called the federal government's efforts to help Texas recover from Hurricane Ike "underwhelming" and announced the formation of a state commission to help move the process along.
Truong Van Cao and two other fishermen share a cramped, muddy tent amid the wreckage of homes, including his own, destroyed when Hurricane Ike stormed across this tiny Southeast Texas town.
When Hurricane Ike headed to Texas last fall, gasoline prices in Florida headed through the roof. Now the state has determined the supplier that jacked prices more than $1.50 a gallon in September was price gouging.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, June 22 (UPI) -- Ohio health officials say the state is experiencing a baby boom nine months after Hurricane Ike knocked out electricity to portions of the state.
As the 2009 hurricane season opens, Galveston, Texas, is still reeling 8 months after Hurricane Ike came ashore there.
Results of the Shriners' decision to close SHC Galveston are reported in this news story from the Houston Chronicle. It begins:
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has denied nearly 650,000 applications for housing aid after Hurricane Ike hit southeast Texas, finding that nearly 90 percent of all claimants were ineligible for FEMA help.
A Mexican-American pediatric surgeon will become the first Hispanic to preside over a major U.S. university system when Dr. Francisco Cigarroa takes the helm at the University of Texas System, which faces financial woes and complaints about diversity.
On Sept. 11, two days before Hurricane Ike slammed into Galveston, flooding John Sealy Hospital and grinding University of Texas Medical Branch operations to a halt, Goodson had an appointment with a medical branch specialty doctor.
A 30-mile scar of debris along the Texas coast stands as a festering testament to what state and local officials say is FEMA's sluggish response to the 2008 hurricane season.
Two months after Hurricane Ike struck the Gulf Coast, finding housing is still an agonizingly slow process in Texas.
GALVESTON — Paul Allen was one of the relatively few voters casting ballots Tuesday at Galveston City Hall, only blocks from the piles of debris and blocks of shuttered businesses in what once was the thriving heart of the city.
ANGLETON — Hurricane Ike's storm surge was so widespread, so high and so violent that it will take much longer than usual for the Texas coastline to recover, the director of coastal resources for the Texas General Land Office said.
Tears are beside the point now.
Apparently, President Bush has declared Ohio eligible for disaster aid due to the damage caused by the remnants of Ike. I had no idea the rest of the country even knew about our end. Which would be understandable, given how much worse off Texas was.
Joe Johnson craned his neck from the airboat as it circled a patch of brown marsh grass. The runaway coffin was not where it was supposed to be.
Joe Johnson craned his neck from the airboat as it circled a patch of brown marsh grass. The runaway coffin was not where it was supposed to be.
The coast here doesn't have the whitest sand or the clearest water, but to millions of Houstonians and other Texans, this is the beach. And thanks to Hurricane Ike, it's also a mess.
Hurricane Ike's winds and massive waves destroyed oil platforms, tossed storage tanks and punctured pipelines.
Hurricane Ike's winds and massive waves destroyed oil platforms, tossed storage tanks and punctured pipelines.
An AP analysis of the Federal Government's findings thus far concerning the impacts of Hurricane Ike points to a major impact on the region's environment.
GALVESTON, Texas (AP) -- 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.
Gail Ettenger made her last phone call at 10:10 p.m. She was trapped in her Bolivar Peninsula bungalow with her Great Dane, Reba. A drowning cat cried outside. Her Jeep bobbed in the seawater surging around her home.
An Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) patch, a mental health parity bill, a package of tax break extensions, and tax breaks and relief for victims of natural disasters, specifically Hurricane Ike.
In this town on the edge of the Trinity Bay, alligators normally outnumber people three to one, and the annual Texas GatorFest draws 30,000 people - more than 10 times the town's population. But not this year, not with Hurricane Ike.
In this article, I really liked the lede. It's a delayed lede and captures what's going on in the form of descriptive imagery/narrative (but it's not in first person). Another thing I found cool was that the sexy quote was a continuation of the lede. It flowed well.
Texas residents of a fragile peninsula ravaged by Hurricane Ike jammed the lone road home Friday to begin rebuilding their lives.