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Crews Try to Protect Texas Wildlife From Oil Spill

DALLAS (Jan. 24) -- Crews worked Sunday to protect two sensitive wildlife areas after a crude oil spill shut down parts of a major southeast Texas port, state Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson said. Plastic walls known as booms and oil-sucking skimmer boats were used to safeguard a lake that is a crucial breeding ground...

Bud Selig Refuses to Let the Astros Controversy Die

There is one simple rule that every chief executive in history, be it a student council president, the President of the United States, or the commissioner of baseball, needs to follow. You cannot make everyone happy. There are some decisions that need to be made that are not easy and will make some people upset. This is...

Will the Houston Texans Be Able to Win for the Gulf Coast?

Trying to beat the Titans on the road was already going to be a difficult task for the Texans: The Texans have played poorly on the road since Gary Kubiak was their coach. The offensive line is incorporating new starters and a new scheme, and like many teams, have struggled in the past against the Titans defensive line....

Astros: 'Bud Killed Us'

Since the Astros road trip to play Milwaukee in the wake of Hurricane Ike, they're 0-5. That puts them five games out of the wild card, which might as well be 100 games out at this late point in the season. They're upset with Bud Selig, but until now they've done a good job keeping mostly silent. Now, though, the Houston...

Astros Offer Their Stadium to Texans

With Reliant Stadium losing five roof tiles in Hurricane Ike and the Texans not being completely sure when the roof will be ready for play, they've gotten an interesting offer for a temporary home - Minute Maid Park, crosstown home of the Astros. I don't know if there have been any serious discussions about this, but...

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06/01/12 As hurricane season arrives, Rice U SSPEED Center... Source: Deer Park Broadcaster It's been nearly four years since Hurricane Ike caused more than $24 billion in damages and dozens of deaths across the Houston/Galveston area, and with National Hurricane Preparedness Week is in full swing, residents are (hopefully) reviewing safety basics an evacuation routes, or at the very least keeping an eye on the weather.
05/30/12 New doctors interrupted by Ike graduate Saturday Source: NBC - KTEN 10 Sherman - Denison TX Some future doctors whose education was interrupted by Hurricane Ike will graduate Saturday.
05/29/12 City to demolish beach-front house Source: The Daily News - Galveston TX Today, the city is set to begin demolishing a blighted beach house left listing in the sand since Hurricane Ike struck 44 months ago.
05/10/12 Efforts to improve Ike-damaged public housing causes... Source: ABC - KTRK 13 - Houston TX It's been four years since Hurricane Ike tore into Galveston Island and the Texas Gulf Coast.

Background on hurricane ike

Hurricane Ike () was the costliest hurricane ever to impact Cuba, the second-costliest hurricane ever to make landfall in the United States, the second most active hurricane to reach the Canadian mainland (as a tropical storm) in the Great Lakes Region after Hurricane Hazel in 1954, and the last hurricane to make landfall in the United States until Hurricane Irene in 2011. It was the ninth named storm, fifth hurricane, and third major hurricane of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season.

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