2. Hurricane Ike: Sept. 10 – 15, 2008 Organized by Joe Naumann UMSL

3. Ike’s Projected Path St. Louis, MO Galveston- Houston Louisville, KY Cuba

4. PRE-TEXAS LANDFALL Hurricane Gustav left a path of destruction through Cuba and Hurricane Ike added more destruction – September 10

5. Hurricane Winds Reach Cuba

6. Ike’s storm surge reaches the Cuban coast

7. Hurricane winds in Los Pozas, Cuba

8. Camaguey, Cuba

10. Cubans playing in a flooded street

11. Pinar del Rio, Cuba during the hurricane

12. Havana

14. Cubans Cleaning Up Havana

15. Great damage was done to the Cuban orange crop: 1000’s torn from trees

16. Cutting up fallen & damaged orange trees

17. Damage in Pinar del Rio, Cuba

18. Baracoa in Guantanamno Province, Cuba

19. People in Baracoa, Cuba, retrieve some of their belongings

20. On the island of Providenciales in the Turks and Caicos

22. Flooding in Gonaives, Haiti

23. Flood damage in Cabaret, Haiti

24. While Ike was over Cuba, it also impacted Key West, Florida

25. Flooded street in Key West Florida

26. GALVESTON & HOUSTON, TEXAS TAKE A BIG HIT! Ike arrives as a category 2 hurricane – September 12.

27. Preparing for the hurricane

28. Waiting for the evacuation bus in Galveston, Texas

29. WHAT ARE THE 5 CATEGORIES OF HURRICANES LIKE? CLICK THE URL ABOVE THIS MESSAGE TO SEE A GREAT ANIMATION. http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/weather/hurricane/la-na-categories-f,0,2318323.flash

30. She was really too close to the Galveston Sea Wall

31. Galveston – Remember that this was only a category 2 hurricane

32. Burning beach house in Galveston

33. Coast road undermined by storm-surge water

34. Destroyed marina and boats

35. Texas National Guard in Galveston

36. President Bush flies over Galveston Island

37. Destruction in Galveston

38. Rescue worker in Galveston

39. Rescue in Galveston

40. People trying to return to Galveston were turned back

41. Cleaning up with a glass of clean water – water shortage!

42. Due to power outages, spoiled frozen foods had to be removed from the shelves.

43. Piles of spoiled food need to be removed

44. Boats washed up on the beach at Baytown, Texas

45. Idled oil refinery in Baytown, Texas

46. Red Cross preparing to assist Baytown, Texas

47. Seabrook, Texas

48. All that remains of a home on Oak Island, Texas

49. Examining the remains of a house in Crystal Beach, Texas

50. Cemetery in Orange, Texas

51. Orange, Texas

52. Dead fish left stranded by receding flood waters in Orange, Texas

53. Nassau Bay, Texas

54. Gilchrist, Texas

55. Remains of a house in Gilchrist, Texas

56. Erath, Texas

57. Padre Palli Park on Padre Island

58. Friendswood, Texas

59. North Beach in Corpus Christi, Texas

60. El Lago, Texas

62. In line for food and drinkable water in Pasadena, Texas

63. Emergency meals for families in Pasadena, Texas

64. The sale of generators became quite brisk

65. Moving cattle to higher ground

66. Moving cattle to safety

67. HOUSTON TAKES A BIG HIT!

68. Downtown Houston

69. Downtown highway

70. North of downtown Houston

71. J.P. Morgan Chase Tower with thousands of windows blown out

72. Shattered glass from J.P. Morgan Chase Tower Windows

73. J.P. Morgan Chase Tower being boarded up

74. Houston service workers preparing to make repairs & restore power

75. Oil refinery near Houston idled.

76. Out of gas in Houston

77. Long lines where gas was still available in Houston

78. FEMA distribution point In Houston

79. Texas National Guard distributing food

80. IKE’S PATH FROM HOUSTON TO THE GREATER ST. LOUIS AREA September 14, 2008

81. Fences down in Louisville, Kentucky

82. Trees down on Louisville, Kentucky golf course

83. Roof off in Benson, Kentucky

84. Benson, Kentucky

85. Tree down in Benson, Kentucky

86. Trees down in Benson, Kentucky

87. WIDESPREAD FLASH FLOODING IN METROPOLITAN ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI September 14, 2008

88. Metro-St. Louis Flash Flood Sites

89. Afton athletic field

90. Afton Athletic Field

91. Bayless area

92. Full creek

93. Overflowing creek

94. Brentwood Area

97. Carondolet Park area – S. St. Louis

100. Crestwood Area

103. Chesterfield

104. Creve Coeur Park & Creve Coeur Mill Road

105. Power lines down at Creve Coeur Lake

107. Fenton Area Cleanup

109. Ferguson

112. Florissant

113. Washington & Lindbergh - Florissant

114. Florissant: Old St. Ferdinand Shrine

117. Florissant Fire Dept. helps

118. Hazelwood – French Quarter Apartments

119. Illinois – Collinsville & Highland

120. Imperial

121. Ladue

122. Maplewood

123. N. St. Louis County

125. Creek entering River des Peres

126. Rock Hill – Manchester Rd.

127. Silex, Missouri

128. St. Charles County

129. University City

131. Webster Groves

133. 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.