Today I discuss 2008's Hurricane Ike with my friend Brittany who experienced the storm in Houston. I give some background on the storm itself and talk briefly about a couple of other storms that influenced the Texas Gulf Coast and how that affected residents during Ike's rampage across the Caribbean, the US, and Canada. Links to information and videos mentioned in this episode: 

Video from Katrina showing storm surge and a vehicle coming into the hotel sheltering hurricane huntershttps://youtu.be/-Kou0HBpX4A

Background on Ike

https://www.weather.gov/hgx/projects_ike08

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Ike

http://www.hurricanescience.org/history/storms/2000s/ike/

Articles over the aftermath and cleanup: 

https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Hurricane-Ike-hit-the-Houston-and-Galveston-areas-9219780.phpThis is a post-hurricane run down of how structures fared during and after the stormhttps://www.eagleview.com/newsroom/2020/07/taking-the-proper-precautions-lessons-learned-from-hurricane-ike-12-years-later/

Good information about the storm's impacts on the Houston areahttps://www.hcfcd.org/About/Harris-Countys-Flooding-History/Hurricane-Ike-2008

Satellite images from before and after the stormhttps://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hurricanes/archives/2008/h2008_ike.html

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