It was September 12, 2008, when the first signs of Hurricane Ike appeared on Galveston Island, as immense waves began crashing into the seawall in a dramatic visualization of what was to come.

But the hopelessly romantic notion that the Seawall could stand tall forever, holding back storm surges while preserving Galveston as a place apart, disappeared with Hurricane Ike. The September ...

13, 2008, when Hurricane Ike ripped through the Houston ... storm surge that destroyed buildings and businesses along Galveston's Seawall. It's one of the deadliest and most expensive storms ...

13, 2008, Hurricane Ike made landfall along the east end ... The only barrier that has withstood the test of time is the Galveston Seawall, which was built after the great Galveston hurricane ...

GALVESTON, TEXAS — Punishing winds and waves from massive Hurricane Ike smashed into this low-lying ... crashed against Galveston’s 17-foot sea wall, clogging streets with debris.

Though it wasn't the "storm of the century," Hurricane Ike ... stood on the 17-foot sea wall as waves crashed over the monument to the Great Storm of 1900 which Galveston had no idea was headed ...

Hurricane Ike is hours away from landfall on the ... 8 to 14 feet I've given the mistaken impression that the Galveston sea wall will save the city from inundation. That is not the case.

GALVESTON, Texas (CNN)-- Hurricane Ike's storm surge flooded ... "We have a lot of faith in the sea wall, and we have boards on the windows. Most people on the island live on second or third ...

And thanks to Hurricane ... Galveston remain heavily littered by debris like water heaters, tires, sofas and the occasional rotting cattle corpse. Although most parts of the beaches along the ...

GALVESTON – Galveston's rubber-tired trolleys, drowned and rendered inoperable by Hurricane Ike in 2008 ... island with stops in between along the seawall, the city said in a news release.

Not all of the island is behind the sea wall and several communities ... storm surge like the one expected to wash over Galveston with Hurricane Ike and might therefore underestimate the severity ...

The Ike Dike ... the mouth of Galveston Bay. Two rows of dunes will be built along 18 miles of beach on Galveston Island. These dunes will stretch from the west end of the seawall to San Luis ...