Hurricane Ike

Houston Still Without Power As Texas Struggles In Ike Recovery

AP | JON GAMBRELL | Posted 10.18.2008 | Green


GALVESTON, Texas — Residents trying to get back to this hurricane-ravaged city Wednesday spent hours fuming in gridlocked traffic, only to be tu...

FEMA Struggles To Provide Aid As Ike Survivors May Wait Weeks For Food, Water And Electricity

AP | JUAN A. LOZANO | Posted 10.17.2008 | Green


GALVESTON, Texas — About 250 people who withstood Hurricane Ike on a coastal sliver of land will be forced off it so crews can begin the recover...

Hurricane Hell: How To Start Picking Up The Pieces

abcnews.com | Emily Friedman | Posted 10.17.2008 | Living


When Galveston, Texas, resident Martin Carroll returned home to assess the damage left by Hurricane Ike, what he discovered was devastating. "It don'...

Entire Towns Disappear In Hurricane Ike's Wrath

ABC News | JIM BUNN and ASHLEY PHILLIPS | Posted 10.16.2008 | Green


As frustrations mount over delays in providing basic supplies to survivors of Hurricane Ike, the first glimpses of previously inaccessible areas revea...

Former Shell Exec Says U.S. Needs Gas Rationing

Washington Times | David M. Dickson | Posted 10.16.2008 | Business


John Hofmeister, the former president of Shell Oil Co. and one of the most influential voices in the oil industry, called for short-term gasoline rati...

Hurricane Relief Will be Hampered By SBA Budget Cuts

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 10.16.2008 | Business


Lloyd Chapman

Relief to small businesses and homeowners recovering from this season's round of hurricanes will be dramatically hampered by a series of severe Bush A...

Ike Remnants Extend As Far As Midwest, Where They Are Blamed For 15 Deaths

AP | KANTELE FRANKO | Posted 10.16.2008 | Green


CINCINNATI — Midwest residents cleared debris from their yards Monday as crews worked to restore electricity to millions of customers left witho...

Climate Change's Assault On Island Nations

Nicholas G. Arons | Posted 10.16.2008 | Green


Nicholas G. Arons

With cultures and traditions as old as any on the planet, island nations have survived colonization, world wars and nuclear testing. But they will not survive climate change.

Hurricane Ike Destroys Oil Platforms In Gulf Of Mexico

AP | JOHN PORRETTO and MARK WILLIAMS | Posted 10.15.2008 | Green


HOUSTON — Pump prices jumped above $5 per gallon in some parts of the country Sunday as Hurricane Ike, which caused less destruction than feared...

Ike skews gas; some stations ask $5 a gallon

AP | JOHN PORRETTO and MARK WILLIAMS | Posted 10.15.2008 | Business


HOUSTON — Pump prices jumped above $5 per gallon in some parts of the country Sunday as Hurricane Ike, which caused less destruction than feared...

Nearly 2,000 brought to safety in Texas

AP | CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN | Posted 10.15.2008 | Home


GALVESTON, Texas — The death toll from Hurricane Ike rose to 25 across nine states Sunday, as rescuers said they had saved nearly 2,000 people f...

Far from Ike's path, an aftershock is felt: $5 gas

AP | JOHN PORRETTO and MARK WILLIAMS | Posted 10.14.2008 | Business


HOUSTON — From Florida to Tennessee, and all the way up to Connecticut, people far from Hurricane Ike's destruction nonetheless felt one of its ...

Obama scales back campaign events in Ike's wake

AP | NEDRA PICKLER | Posted 10.14.2008 | Politics


MANCHESTER, N.H. — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama asked his supporters Saturday to help with recovery from Hurricane Ike and can...

Hurricane Break Could Hurt Cubs

Chicago Tribune | Paul Sullivan | Posted 10.14.2008 | Chicago


For manager Lou Piniella and the eight Cubs who were in New York for the All-Star Game in July, this weekend's Hurricane Ike hiatus could serve as the...

By air, boat and truck, search on for Ike victims

AP | CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN and PAULINE ARRILLAGA | Posted 10.14.2008 | Home


HOUSTON — Rescuers in boats, helicopters and high-water trucks fanned out along the flood-stricken Texas coast Saturday in a monumental effort t...

Hurricane Ike Upon Us: Cuba, Haiti, Texas Need Help!

Richard Walden | Posted 10.13.2008 | Politics


Richard Walden

It's hard to pay attention unless you are living at ground zero.

Colossal Hurricane Ike lashes Texas coast

AP | JUAN A. LOZANO and PAULINE ARRILLAGA | Posted 10.13.2008 | Green


HOUSTON — A monster-sized Hurricane Ike bore down on the Texas coast late Friday, threatening to rattle the sparkling skyscrapers of America's f...

HTV Houma Louisiana: Terrebonne Parish Begins to Flood

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 10.13.2008 | Home


Georgianne Nienaber

"The tide is higher then it was for Hurricane Rita and when the wind blows from the south more water will follow. One hundred thousand people in Terrebonne Parish could flood. It looks like Niagra Falls. Please leave."

Colossal Hurricane Ike lashes Texas coast

AP | JUAN A. LOZANO and PAULINE ARRILLAGA | Posted 10.13.2008 | Green


HOUSTON — A monster-sized Hurricane Ike bore down on the Texas coast late Friday, threatening to rattle the sparkling skyscrapers of America's f...

Lessons for Hospitals from Hurricane Gustav

Sheri Fink | Posted 10.12.2008 | Politics


Sheri Fink

Cross-posted with ProPublica As Hurricane Gustav approached the southern Louisiana coastline late last month, an estimated 10,000 hospital, nursing h...

Two Cubs-Astros Games Postponed Over Ike

AP | CHRIS DUNCAN | Posted 10.12.2008 | Chicago


HOUSTON — The first two games of this weekend's series between the Chicago Cubs and Houston Astros have been postponed because of the potential ...

Ike Forces Gulf Coast Evacuations In Texas

AP | MICHAEL GRACZYK | Posted 10.12.2008 | Green


HOUSTON — Cars and trucks streamed inland and chemical companies buttoned up their plants Thursday as a gigantic Hurricane Ike took aim at the h...

Right-Wing Extremists Unmoved by Devastation in Cuba

Joe Garcia | Posted 10.12.2008 | Politics


Joe Garcia

The greatest impediment to the wellbeing of the Cuban people is the Cuban government itself. But this fact does not give us license to throw our hands in the air and not offer our help.

Hurricane Ike: Texas Evacuates Parts Of Gulf Coast

AP | MICHAEL GRACZYK | Posted 10.12.2008 | Green


HOUSTON — Cars and trucks streamed inland and chemical companies buttoned up their plants Thursday as a gigantic Hurricane Ike took aim at the h...

Ike Spikes Gas Prices As The Hurricane Threatens Texas Refineries

AP | MADLEN READ | Posted 10.12.2008 | Business


NEW YORK — Gasoline prices jumped to unprecedented levels in the wholesale markets Thursday as Hurricane Ike tore across the Gulf of Mexico, thr...