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Crystal Beach and the entire Bolivar Peninsula suffered catastrophic damage from Hurricane Ike on the night of September 12–13, 2008. [3] The majority of the area was damaged by a storm surge of over 20 ft, during the high tide of 4:14 a.m., adding 1.5-2.3 ft more height to the storm tide, plus higher waves on top.
House in Kemah, TX, that was struck by Hurricane Ike in 2008. Kemah, Texas, about 35 miles (56 km) south of Houston, was without power and water, and still had 5 feet of flooding on Saturday, September 13, 2008. [4] State Highway 146 was closed at the 2094 intersection. There was a lot of debris on the roads, [56] completely covering some lanes.
Using this type of calculation, the integrated kinetic energy was calculated for Ike and was found to be 25 percent greater than the comparable maximum estimate for Hurricane Katrina in 2005. [37] [38] Hurricane Ike caused cataclysmic destruction of the peninsula, reducing the region to rubble and causing severe, permanent change in the shoreline.
Bridge City, Texas was heavily damaged by Hurricane Ike on September 13, 2008. [7] Damage was widespread and severe across Orange County. With over 95 percent of buildings and houses in Bridge City totally gutted, the city was nearly completely destroyed. The 22-foot (6.7 m) storm surge completely flooded the city and obliterated everything in ...
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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.
Galveston Hurricane of 1900 (Category 4): Death toll between 8,000 and 12,000, named the deadliest hurricane in U.S. history Hurricane Audrey (1957, Category 4 ): 416 Galveston Hurricane of 1915 ...
In contrast to the 1980s, during the 1990s only one hurricane, Hurricane Bret, made landfall on the Texas coast. [5] In the next decade five hurricanes would make landfall on Texas. [1] Hurricane Ike, the second costliest hurricane to impact Texas, made landfall during the decade. Other notable systems include Tropical Storm Allison and ...