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During the first week of September, 2008 Hurricane Ike tore through the islands of Turks & Caicos and Great Inagua as a category four, with sustained winds of 135mph, before making landfall on the north coast of Cuba as a strong category three, with 120mph winds.
Ike crossed the eastern and central provinces of the Cuban mainland and moved offshore, paralleling the south coast of the island, making another landfall over the western portion of Cuba and emerging into the Gulf of Mexico.
The hurricane continued across the Gulf and made a final landfall near Galveston, Texas as a borderline category two/three, with 110mph winds, during the early morning hours of September 13th.
The hurricane caused extensive wind and storm surge damage in the affected areas, virtually obliterating several coastal communities on the Bolivar peninsula of the upper Texas coast.
With monetary losses over $31 billion (USD), Ike is now ranked as the third costliest hurricane in United States history.
From the afternoon of September 7th through the evening of September 9th, storm chasers Michael Laca, Jim Leonard, Jose Garcia and Max Hagen intercepted numerous outer rainbands, from Hurricane Ike, in the middle and lower Florida Keys, as the storm passed well to the south.
At the time of Ike’s closest point of approach to the Keys, the hurricane was a category one with sustained winds of 80mph and a central pressure of 965mb (28.50in).
Although the center of Ike remained a significant distance (150 miles) to the south, the hurricane had a very large windfield and produced sustained tropical storm conditions (39-73mph), with gusts of near hurricane-force, across most of the Florida Keys, which resulted in some minor wind damage.
These strong winds produced a 2-3ft storm surge in exposed locations on the Atlantic side of the lower Keys. During high-tide, many low-lying areas experienced significant flooding.
Numerous tornadic thunderstorms were also embedded within the outer rain bands of Hurricane Ike and several confirmed reports of tornadoes and tornadic waterspouts have been received from locations throughout the Keys.
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Maritime Safety and Security Team Boston esses the Houston Ship Channel for obstructions and damage following Hurricane Ike. Coast Guard personnel and ets from around the country were deployed to the Houston-Galveston area to ist with search and rescue, aids to navigation repair and pollution essment.
Galveston, Texas April, 2009 Families in Schreiber Field Community Site in Galveston, Texas recover from Hurricane Ike, by utilizing FEMA’s direct housing program.
www,Trips4Money.com This Video shows the Fort Morgan Al. Mystery Ghost Ship washed up by hurricane Ike near Gulf Shores,Al You Decide
This is Galveston, Port Bolivar, and Crystal Beach a few months after being DEVASTATED by Hurrican Ike. A lot of it is our family’s two little cabins… our family’s history… Pretty hard to lose something you’ve known all your life!
Hurricane IKE seems to be looking like the 1900 Hurricane that destroyed Galveston,TX killed 8000 + people
Look Back at Hurricane Ike Hurricane Ike Strikes the Same Spot as the Deadliest Hurricane in U.S. History The Weather Channel’s Meteorologist and Storm Tracker Jim Cantore from Galveston, Texas Almost a hundred years later, Texas residents are again faced with clean up after Hurricane Ike. The single-most deadly hurricane in U.S history was the one that hit Galveston in 1900 and killed 8,000 Americans. It swept the booming city of Galveston away, opening the door for Houston to flourish.
Hurricane Ike from Point Comfort, Texas. Second rain band coming in. Category 2 in Galveston. September 12, 2008.
Look Back at Hurricane Ike Hurricane Ike Strikes the Same Spot as the Deadliest Hurricane in U.S. History The Weather Channel’s Meteorologist and Storm Tracker Jim Cantore from Galveston, Texas Almost a hundred years later, Texas residents are again faced with clean up after Hurricane Ike. The single-most deadly hurricane in U.S history was the one that hit Galveston in 1900 and killed 8,000 Americans. It swept the booming city of Galveston away, opening the door for Houston to flourish.
Authorities in the Houston area and along the Southeast Texas Gulf Coast ordered hundreds of thousands of people to evacuate Thursday as Hurricane Ike lumbered toward the coast and threatened to grow even stronger. (Sept. 11)