To address future hurricanes in the Gulf Coast region, officials at Rice University unveiled a plan that will add to several ...

Using NOAA data, Stacker summarized the last 100 hurricane seasons in the Atlantic Basin. See which years and storms broke ...

But the district is taking on the serious, real-world task of rolling out the USACE’s biggest, most ambitious mission to date: the $34 billion Coastal Texas Project (CTX). The storm risk management ...

A major hurricane could shut ... of this ship channel in Galveston Bay. Blackburn said officials could use the material that was dredged up to create the sea wall, and local governments and ...

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 has had a seawall since the early 1900s, but the massive waves of Hurricane Ike poured right over it. The first person to put forward the idea of an offshore storm barrier for Galveston ...

The hurricane presented the first test of the Galveston Seawall that was built following ... just over $1 billion in South Texas. September: Ike was the second hurricane to make landfall along ...

GALVESTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Hurricane Ike hit in 2008, with waves easily overtopping the 17-foot Galveston seawall and showing all of us in southeast Texas our own vulnerability. Coincidentally ...

Water from Galveston Bay crashes ... agency has proposed to mitigate hurricane risk with ambitious engineering projects. Corps officials have pitched large sea-wall structures to several other ...

Even though we’ve been talking about the Ike Dike for more than a decade ... the eroded beaches at South Padre to improving the Galveston Seawall). So what’s next? Well, plenty.

FILE - Cyclists ride past debris piled up on the seawall road Sept. 14, 2008, after Hurricane Ike hit the Texas coast in Galveston. Fourteen years after Hurricane Ike ripped through thousands of ...

It also brings with it memories of Hurricane Ike ... above its weight as 110-mph winds sent water surging over Galveston's seawall, reaching depths up to 13 feet on Galveston Island and up ...