The sea wall protects only about a third of ... Later that year, Hurricane Ike battered the Galveston coast and damaged the ...

The long-envisioned Ike Dike project entails constructing a multifaceted coastal barrier system off the coast of Galveston ...

But Galveston did not need Harvey's wake-up call to tune into its increasing vulnerability. A decade earlier, Hurricane Ike already clobbered the island, overtopping the seawall that had stood to ...

As of Monday night, there was only one convenience store open in Galveston and one was lucky ... She, her boyfriend and six other people rode out Hurricane Ike at a friend's house.

The Galveston Island Historic Pleasure ... It was originally built in the 1940s, but in 1961 Hurricane Carla completely destroyed it; later in 2008, Hurricane Ike severely damaged it too, and ...

(CNN) -- A tugboat on Saturday reached a disabled freighter carrying 22 people, hours after the ship rode out Hurricane Ike without power ... 90 miles southeast of Galveston" and was unable ...