News -09-07-08 Ike Moving West at Category 4 (Time.com) "Hurricane Ike slammed into the Turks and Caicos on Saturday as a ferocious Category 4 storm, raking the low-lying island chain with shrieking winds as people hunkered down at home or in emergency shelters." "Forecasters said Ike was expected to reach the northern coast of eastern Cuba Sunday night or early Monday. Cuba's government warned people to be ready to take emergency action, but hotels said they had not yet started evacuating foreign guests." 09-08 -09-11-08 Stern Warning on Hurricane Ike (MSNBC News) "Perhaps the sternest warning came from the National Weather Service for residents along a Gulf-facing stretch of Galveston Island and neighboring Bolivar Peninsula, which are both under mandatory evacuation orders. People ignoring the orders in single-family one- or two-story homes 'will face certain death,' read the statement Thursday from the local weather forecast office." 09-08 -09-12-08 Ike Tracker (MSNBC News) Tracks the path of hurricane Ike. 09-08 -09-15-08 Ike Leaves Devastation in Texas (MSNBC News) "Residents who didn't leave ahead of Ike wait for ice, water and ready-to-eat meals at a FEMA site in Houston on Monday. In nearby Galveston, hungry and exhausted residents were urged to leave that city as relief supplies failed to meet demand." "A humanitarian crisis unfolded Monday along the Texas coast as thousands of Hurricane Ike victims clamored for food, water, electricity and gasoline — and found nothing much to go home to except streets littered with piles of debris, spewing sewage, and floodwaters crawling with snakes and alligators." 09-08 -10-04-08 Many Who Stayed Died (CNN News) "The final hours brought the awful realization to victims of Hurricane Ike that they had waited too long. This storm wasn't like the others, the ones that left nothing worse than a harrowing tale to tell." 10-08 Papers Ike Smashes Texas (ABC News) "Crews navigated debris-strewn streets to reach people still stuck in some of the thousands of homes flooded by Hurricane Ike, while authorities in the nation's fourth-largest city imposed a curfew and warned residents that it would be weeks before Houston is fully back up and running." "Heavy morning rains hampered early rescue efforts in the hardest-hit areas of the Texas and Louisiana gulf coasts, while those who had evacuated and tried to return to the Houston area on Sunday found both interstates and sidestreets blocked by flooding and debris." 09-08

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