Hurricane
IKE - September 13, 2008
Crystal Beach & Bolivar Peninsula
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Ike made landfall in the early
morning hours of September 13, 2008 as
a
strong
Category 2 hurricane. Hurricane-force winds extended 120 miles from the
center and tropical storm-force winds extending outward up to 275
miles. The largest storm surge was estimated at 17 feet -- and possibly
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The destruction
caused by Hurricane IKE
(this is only a small sampling of the thousands of photos taken after
the storm)
Aerial Panoramics of Bolivar
(Interactive
360°
X 180° immersive panoramic images)
On-Ground
Pictures
of Bolivar-1
(taken September 20, 2008)
On-Ground
Pictures of Bolivar-2
(taken September 20, 2008)
Bolivar
Flyover, Sept 17 (pictures
taken by
Vicky Courtney)
NOAA
Satellite
Images
(taken
after IKE
passed through)
USGS
photos
(interesting, before and after IKE)
"I
keep
hearing that Crystal Beach is "Gone." Hogwash. It isn't gone. Maybe
some of the wood and nails that made up houses are gone...But
Crystal Beach is still there, and it will come back
better than ever." (Sarah
Morrison Stephens, Deatsville, Alabama)
"...like
most
things, it wasn’t necessarily the physical structure that makes a
place
special but it was the people who lived there." (MR
McDermott,
Dallas TX)
 FEMA
Reports
Hurricane
IKE Impact Report
December 8, 2008 (.pdf file, 1.12 mb)
Hurricane
Ike: Mitigation
Assessment Team Report Recommendations,
and Technical Guidance
Media Library: Hurricane
Ike - Texas Hurricane
Ike Photo Essay
Photo
Gallery - 3 Years After Ike
Before Hurricane
Ike, our community was populated with homes, vacation spots, and
storefronts. The devastation ran deep, but we have come back stronger
than before. Click
here
to see a photo gallery
of various locations on Bolivar comparing the destruction left by IKE
with the look three years later.
The
"Ike Dike"
The Ike Dike is
a proposed coastal barrier that, when completed, would protect the
Houston-Galveston region including Galveston Bay from hurricane storm
surge. www.tamug.edu/ikedike
Books
Here are two books written by Bolivar residents:
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