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Hurricane Ike

storm [2008]

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Galveston

In Galveston
…of the storm surge when Hurricane Ike made landfall on September 13, 2008, but it failed to prevent large-scale flooding and widespread damage to homes and businesses.
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Houston

In Houston: History
Hurricane Ike, though responsible for far fewer deaths, caused similar damage to Houston shortly after making landfall in nearby Galveston in September 2008. Hurricane Harvey, the strongest storm to make landfall in the United States in more than a decade, drenched the Houston area in…
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