HOUSTON (AP) -- 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 ...

Hurricane Ike, 2008 Hurricane Ike struck the southeast Texas Gulf Coast in September 2008, creating a storm surge as high as 20 feet (6 meters) in the island city of Galveston.

Texas flood death toll rises to 119, deadlier than Hurricane Harvey Search and rescue teams are several days into their search to locate the 161 missing people.

GALVESTON, TX — Mary C. Meade, 72, of Galveston, passed away Monday, July 7, 2025, at Jenny Sealy Hospital. She was born in Galveston and was a lifetime resident of the island, retiring from American ...

Hurricane Harvey, 2017 FILE – In this Monday, Sept. 4, 2017, file photo, Mariko Shimmi, right, helps carry items out of the home of Ken Tani in a neighborhood still flooded from Harvey in Houston.

(AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File) Hurricane Ike struck the southeast Texas Gulf Coast in September 2008, creating a storm surge as high as 20 feet in the island city of Galveston.