Mississippi paper, recalling Katrina, urges Texans to flee

The people of the Mississippi Coast know all of the excuses to stay "hunkered down" in their homes and comfort zones. They survived the previous big storm (Camille, for us) there was no place for their pets, they were old, sick, tired, etc. Some were just skeptical. Many of them now lie in the sandy soil of their homeland, victims of the storm surge. | 09/12/08 14:17:16 By -

Biloxi declares state of emergency as a result of Ike surge

Even though the eyue of Hurricane Ike was hundreds of miles away and headed toward Texas, Mississippi's Gulf coast again was flooded this morning with higher than normal tides. | 09/12/08 14:40:55 By - Mary Perez

Fearing gridlock, officials tell Houston to hunker down

Nearly 1 million people along the Texas coast were ordered to evacuate ahead of the storm, which was expected to strike late tonight or early Saturday. But in a calculated risk aimed at avoiding total gridlock, authorities told most people in the nation's fourth-largest city to just hunker down. | 09/12/08 07:50:48 By -

Fort Worth-based planes evacuating elderly and disabled from Beaumont

Air crews from the Texas Air National Guard, finally given an evacuation mission early Thursday morning, are now in a race against Hurricane Ike. | 09/12/08 07:25:49 By - Chris Vaughn

Fearing Ike, some stations ask for 10-gallon gas limit

At least one major gas station chain in the Carolinas began rationing gas Thursday, amid fears that Hurricane Ike would deplete supplies already diminished by Hurricanes Hanna and Gustav. | 09/12/08 06:46:10 By - Sue Stock and Kirsten Valle

What Ike may bring to Texas: widespread power outages, flooding

Ike will be weakened by the time the hurricane reaches North Texas, but not enough to prevent widespread and extended power outages and flash floods. | 09/11/08 14:34:53 By - Bill Miller

Shelters opened in Mississippi as high tides hit from Ike

While Ike isn't forecast to strike Mississippi, its effects are being felt along the Gulf coast there as streets and yards flooded across Biloxi and Gulfport and in numerous parts of Hancock County. | 09/11/08 14:30:41 By -

Mississippi seeing unexpected flooding from Ike

Bay St. Louis, Miss., saw the Jourdan River rise because of Ike's tidal surge, even though Mississippi is not in the path of the storm. | 09/11/08 14:23:10 By - J. R. Welsh

Cuba's aging buildings come tumbling down in Ike's wake

The bricks were exposed, scaffolding held up the roof, and there were huge holes inside the walls. But the family living in the crumbling building on Cuba's famed Malecon at Crespo Street thought it was safe to return home Wednesday. Hurricane Ike had finally left the island and headed out to sea. They were wrong. | 09/11/08 07:05:32 By - Staff writers

Evacuations begin in Texas as Ike gains strength in Gulf

Drawing energy from the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico, the strengthening storm was expected to blow ashore early Saturday somewhere between Corpus Christi and Houston, with some forecasts saying it could become a fearsome Category 4, with winds of at least 131 mph. | 09/10/08 19:30:59 By -

Ike's damages in Cuba exceed $3 billion, U.N. says

Hurricane Ike left behind $3 to $4 billion in damage to homes, agriculture, public buildings and the electrical grid, the United Nations said. More than 140,000 structures were damaged, Elisabeth Byrs of the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said at a news briefing in Geneva. | 09/10/08 19:25:48 By - Jennifer Lebovich, Patricia Mazzei and Frances Robles

Buildings crumble in Havana after Ike's passage

Even though Ike left the island on Tuesday, the worst for Havana comes now: when buildings collapse from the weight of the wet cement. Cuban media reported 64 partial or total building collapses so far in this country's capital, brought down by a combination of age, decay and Ike's torrential downpours and winds. Four collapsed in a single block. | 09/10/08 19:14:45 By -

Caribbean leaders call for help as Haiti toll stands at 341

The scene from the air over Haiti was grim Tuesday: a storm-ravaged landscape stretching out for miles, flooded rice fields, washed-out cities and survivors battling rivers of mud. The country's No. 1 need: drinkable water. | 09/10/08 08:07:13 By - Jennifer Lebovich, Trenton Daniel, and Jacqueline Charles

North Texas readies to care for possible Ike evacuees

If Ike makes landfall near the Mexico border, most evacuees would be sent to Austin and San Antonio, but if it veers north toward Houston, tens of thousands could head to the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Anita Foster, spokeswoman for the area Red Cross chapter, said the worst-case scenario could bring 48,000 to North Texas. | 09/10/08 07:51:03 By - Patrick McGee

Hurricane Ike makes second Cuba landfall

Hurricane Ike made a second Cuban landfall Tuesday in the western Pinar Del R�o province after killing four people across the island nation and blowing tropical storm-force winds into the Keys. | 09/09/08 14:35:18 By - Cammy Clark, Elaine De Valle and Evan S. Benn

Ike still moving through Cuba, taking aim at Havana

The Cuban government put Havana and already battered Pinar del R�o and Isle of Youth under hurricane warning, suspending the cleanup there of damage from Hurricane Gustav in anticipation of Ike's arrival Tuesday afternoon. Four deaths were reported on the island as of late Monday. | 09/09/08 07:54:09 By - Elaine DeValle, Renato Perez, and Frances Robles

1 million estimated homeless in Haiti in wake of Ike

With Haiti's major bridges crumbled, roadways flooded and an estimated one million people homeless, humanitarian and government groups struggled Monday to push relief supplies into the country where four storms in rapid succession have killed hundreds of people. Rescue groups have no access to many interior villages or to Gonaives, north of the capital, which was cut off when a bridge collapsed. | 09/09/08 07:37:20 By - Jacqueline Charles, Treneton Daniel and Evan S. Benn

Destruction widespread as Hurricane Ike rakes Cuba

Storm surges flooded neighborhoods and wind blew off roofs as Hurricane Ike tore through eastern Cuba Monday. Forecasters feared the storm would strengthen as the eye of the hurricane skirted off land and touched warm waters. Tropical storm-force winds were expected Monday afternoon in central Cuba as the storm's outer bands cross almost the entire length of the island. | 09/08/08 16:47:23 By - Elaine Devalle, Renato Perez and Frances Robles

Haiti reeling, cities cut off, as 4 storms deliver devastation

What Tropical Storm Fay, Hurricane Gustav and Tropical Storm Hanna didn't fully demolish, Ike finished off — destroying scores of additional homes and desperately needed plantations, leaving entire communities submerged by flash floods. Both the United States and Venezuela promised aid. ''This is Katrina in the entire country but without the means that Louisiana had,'' the country's president said. | 09/08/08 13:31:59 By - Jacqueline Charles

Ike weakens as it traverses Cuba; Gulf Coast still in danger

Ike, which once packed winds of up to 135 mph, is now a Category 2 storm with maximum winds of 105 mph after making landfall Sunday night in Cuba. The storm will continue to lash Cuba Monday and Tuesday, possibly causing up to 20 inches of rain in some areas, flash floods and mudslides. It is then expected to make its way into the Gulf of Mexico, where it could restrengthen. | 09/08/08 13:32:16 By - Cammy Clark, Jennifer Lebovich, Frances Robles and Evan S. Benn

Bodies on every corner as Ike takes toll on Haitian town

Mothers wailed, fathers screamed, and the entire town of Cabaret, Haiti, was shaken as they counted the dead from Hurricane Ike — many of them children and old women swept up by the river. So far, 22 are believed to have died, but the number would likely rise. | 09/08/08 13:34:25 By - Jacqueline Charles

Ike, worst storm ever to hit Cuba's east, slams into island

The picture for Cuba could hardly be worse. Nearly the entire country was inside Hurricane Ike's forecast cone when the slightly weakened Category 3 Ike barreled in at the eastern city of Cabo Lucrecia in Holguin province in eastern Cuba Sunday evening. More than 700,000 people have been evacuated. | 09/08/08 13:32:47 By - Frances Robles

Hurricane Ike heads for southeastern Bahamas, Cuba

A fearsome and rejuvenated Hurricane Ike roared over the Turks and Caicos overnight Sunday ripping roofs from most of the island's homes and is now heading toward the southeastern Bahamian islands and Cuba. | 09/08/08 13:35:00 By - Evan S. Been, Cammy Clark, Andres Viglucci and Jennifer Lebovich

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