Saturday, September 13, 2008

Seabrook. Colossal Hurricane Ike bears down on Texas coast. Hobby.

The unguent and gas sedulousness was also closely watching Ike because it was headed as the crow flies for the nation's biggest complex of refineries and petrochemical plants. Wholesale gasoline prices jumped to around $4.85 a gallon for fearful of shortages.



The deluge could also energy wet up the seven bayous that story-line through Houston, swamping neighborhoods so flood-prone that they get inundated during mediocre rainstorms. Though Ike's center was heading for Texas, it spawned thunderstorms, secure down schools and knocked out inertia throughout southern Louisiana on Friday. An estimated 1,200 relatives were in have shelters in Monroe and Shreveport, and another 220 in medical needs shelters. In southeastern Louisiana near Houma, Ike breached levees, comminatory thousands of homes of fishermen, oil-field workers, farmers and others.

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In Galveston, a working-class burgh of about 57,000, waves crashed over the 11-mile seawall built a century ago, after the Great Storm of 1900 killed 6,000 residents. While the Galveston beachfront is dotted with strange condominiums and some ritzy seaside homes on stilts, most populace conclude in older, one-story bungalows. The National Weather Service warned "widespread and devastating" harm was expected. ___ Pauline Arrillaga reported from Houston. Associated Press writers Kelley Shannon in Austin, Eileen Sullivan in Washington, Paul Weber and Regina L. Burns in Dallas, John Porretto, Andre Coe, and Diana Heidgerd in Dallas, and Allen G. Breed and video news-hound Rich Matthews in Surfside Beach also contributed.



Brian Skoloff also contributed from West Palm Beach, Fla.




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