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Hurricane Ike: Sept. 10 – 15, 2008 Organized by Joe Naumann UMSL
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Ike’s Projected Path St. Louis, MO Galveston- Houston Louisville, KY Cuba
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PRE-TEXAS LANDFALL Hurricane Gustav left a path of destruction through Cuba and Hurricane Ike added more destruction – September 10
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Hurricane Winds Reach Cuba
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Ike’s storm surge reaches the Cuban coast
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Hurricane winds in Los Pozas, Cuba
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Camaguey, Cuba
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Cubans playing in a flooded street
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Pinar del Rio, Cuba during the hurricane
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Havana
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Cubans Cleaning Up Havana
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Great damage was done to the Cuban orange crop: 1000’s torn from trees
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Cutting up fallen & damaged orange trees
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Damage in Pinar del Rio, Cuba
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Baracoa in Guantanamno Province, Cuba
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People in Baracoa, Cuba, retrieve some of their belongings
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On the island of Providenciales in the Turks and Caicos
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Flooding in Gonaives, Haiti
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Flood damage in Cabaret, Haiti
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While Ike was over Cuba, it also impacted Key West, Florida
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Flooded street in Key West Florida
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GALVESTON & HOUSTON, TEXAS TAKE A BIG HIT! Ike arrives as a category 2 hurricane – September 12.
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Preparing for the hurricane
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Waiting for the evacuation bus in Galveston, Texas
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She was really too close to the Galveston Sea Wall
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Galveston – Remember that this was only a category 2 hurricane
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Burning beach house in Galveston
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Coast road undermined by storm-surge water
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Destroyed marina and boats
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Texas National Guard in Galveston
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President Bush flies over Galveston Island
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Destruction in Galveston
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Rescue worker in Galveston
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Rescue in Galveston
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People trying to return to Galveston were turned back
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Cleaning up with a glass of clean water – water shortage!
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Due to power outages, spoiled frozen foods had to be removed from the shelves.
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Piles of spoiled food need to be removed
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Boats washed up on the beach at Baytown, Texas
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Idled oil refinery in Baytown, Texas
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Red Cross preparing to assist Baytown, Texas
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Seabrook, Texas
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All that remains of a home on Oak Island, Texas
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Examining the remains of a house in Crystal Beach, Texas
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Cemetery in Orange, Texas
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Orange, Texas
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Dead fish left stranded by receding flood waters in Orange, Texas
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Nassau Bay, Texas
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Gilchrist, Texas
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Remains of a house in Gilchrist, Texas
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Erath, Texas
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Padre Palli Park on Padre Island
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Friendswood, Texas
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North Beach in Corpus Christi, Texas
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El Lago, Texas
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In line for food and drinkable water in Pasadena, Texas
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Emergency meals for families in Pasadena, Texas
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The sale of generators became quite brisk
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Moving cattle to higher ground
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Moving cattle to safety
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HOUSTON TAKES A BIG HIT!
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Downtown Houston
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Downtown highway
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North of downtown Houston
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J.P. Morgan Chase Tower with thousands of windows blown out
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Shattered glass from J.P. Morgan Chase Tower Windows
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J.P. Morgan Chase Tower being boarded up
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Houston service workers preparing to make repairs & restore power
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Oil refinery near Houston idled.
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Out of gas in Houston
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Long lines where gas was still available in Houston
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FEMA distribution point In Houston
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Texas National Guard distributing food
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IKE’S PATH FROM HOUSTON TO THE GREATER ST. LOUIS AREA September 14, 2008
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Fences down in Louisville, Kentucky
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Trees down on Louisville, Kentucky golf course
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Roof off in Benson, Kentucky
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Benson, Kentucky
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Tree down in Benson, Kentucky
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Trees down in Benson, Kentucky
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WIDESPREAD FLASH FLOODING IN METROPOLITAN ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI September 14, 2008
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Metro-St. Louis Flash Flood Sites
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Afton athletic field
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Afton Athletic Field
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Bayless area
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Full creek
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Overflowing creek
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Brentwood Area
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Carondolet Park area – S. St. Louis
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Crestwood Area
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Chesterfield
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Creve Coeur Park & Creve Coeur Mill Road
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Power lines down at Creve Coeur Lake
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Fenton Area Cleanup
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Ferguson
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Florissant
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Washington & Lindbergh - Florissant
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Florissant: Old St. Ferdinand Shrine
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Florissant Fire Dept. helps
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Hazelwood – French Quarter Apartments
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Illinois – Collinsville & Highland
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Imperial
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Ladue
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Maplewood
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N. St. Louis County
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Creek entering River des Peres
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Rock Hill – Manchester Rd.
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Silex, Missouri
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St. Charles County
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University City
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Webster Groves
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Damage Estimates? Sept. 15, 2008 Hazelwood city officials estimated there was 20 million dollars of damage in that city. The total cost to insurance companies may run into the hundreds of millions of dollars.
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