what was the extent of the damage done by hurricane ike?
After completing my doctoral work at Baylor University in part under the supervision of SA’s Frank Beckwith, I took a job teaching and as an administrator at Houston Baptist University. It’s been my privilege to be at the school during a time of growth in the student body and the hiring of many new faculty members. Last weekend, HBU took a big hit from Hurricane Ike. Every update I get, the damage estimates seem to rise. Please consider giving to reconstruction efforts at www.hbu.edu. You can read more from our president Robert Sloan and from the Baptist Standard. Sources: http://hunterbaker.wordpress.
Hurricane Ike (pronounced /ˈaɪk/) was the third most destructive hurricane to ever make landfall in the United States. It was the ninth named storm, fifth hurricane and third major hurricane of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season.[1] It was a Cape Verde-type hurricane, as it started as a tropical disturbance off the coast of Africa near the end of August, then tracked south of Cape Verde and slowly developed. On September 1, 2008, it became a tropical storm west of the Cape Verde islands.[2][3] By the early morning hours of September 4, Ike was a Category 4 hurricane, with maximum sustained winds of 145 mph (230 km/h) and a pressure of 935 mbar (27.61 inHg).[4] That made it the most intense storm in the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season. Ike made its final landfall over Galveston, Texas, United States as a Category 2 hurricane on September 13, 2008 at 2:10 a.m. CDT. Ike was blamed for at least 195 deaths. Of these, 74 were in Haiti, which was already trying to recover from the impact of th
