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Hurricane Ike also had a long-term impact on the U.S. economy. [1] Making landfall over Galveston as a Category 2 hurricane, at 2:10 a.m. CDT [2] on September 13, 2008, Hurricane Ike caused extensive damage in Texas, with sustained winds of 110 mph (180 km/h), a 22 ft (6.7 m) storm surge, and widespread coastal flooding. [2] [3] [4]
Hurricane Ike (/ aɪ k /) 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.
Flooding in Port Arthur from Hurricane Harvey. From 1980 to the present, 81 tropical or subtropical cyclones affected the U.S. state of Texas.According to David Roth of the Weather Prediction Center, a tropical cyclone makes landfall along the coastline about three times every four years, and on any 50 mi (80 km) segment of the coastline a hurricane makes landfall about once every six years.
The effects of Hurricane Ike in inland North America, in September 2008, were unusually intense and included widespread damage across all or parts of eleven states – Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, New York, Ohio, [1] Pennsylvania, Tennessee and West Virginia, (not including Louisiana and Texas where the storm made landfall) and into parts of Ontario as Ike, which ...
Louisiana–Texas Hurricane (1918, Category 3): 34. List of top 5 costliest hurricanes in Texas. ... Hurricane Ike (2008, Category 2): $29.52 billion. Hurricane Rita (2005, Category 3): $12.04 ...
The state of Texas has had many hurricanes affect it. It is the US state with the second-most hurricanes affecting it, only behind Florida . [ 1 ] Storms affecting it go back to 1527.
At the time, 38,000 people lived in Galveston, Texas. By the end of this Category 4 hurricane with 145 mph winds, 10,000 of them had lost their homes in the deadliest natural disaster in U.S. history.
Brad Gana, of Seabrook, Texas, is being threatened with foreclosure over a home that hasn't existed since it was destroyed by Home Destroyed by Hurricane Ike Still Faces Foreclosure Skip to main ...