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'''Hurricane Ike''' was a category 2 [[hurricane]] and was expected to make landfall in [[Houston]], [[Texas]] on September 14th, 2008 as a Category 3 with winds exceeding 131 miles an hour. <ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/12/us/12ike.html?ref=us</ref> Ike has been ranked as the seventh most expensive catastrophe in the United States history. Mike Barry of the Insurance Information Institute in New York said there was $8.1 billion in insured damage from Hurricane Ike. <ref>[http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,458790,00.html This Year's Hurricane Season Set New Records], Associated Press, Fox News, November 28, 2008</ref>

'''Hurricane Ike''' was a category 2 [[hurricane]] and was expected to make landfall in [[Houston]], [[Texas]] on September 14, 2008 as a Category 3 with winds exceeding 131 miles an hour.<ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/12/us/12ike.html?ref=us</ref> Ike has been ranked as the seventh most expensive catastrophe in the United States history. Mike Barry of the Insurance Information Institute in New York said there was $8.1 billion in insured damage from Hurricane Ike.<ref>[http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,458790,00.html This Year's Hurricane Season Set New Records], Associated Press, Fox News, November 28, 2008</ref>

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==External Links==

==External links==

*[http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,432862,00.html Galveston Residents Who Insisted on Staying Died in Ike], Associated Press, ''Fox News'', October 05, 2008

*[http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,432862,00.html Galveston Residents Who Insisted on Staying Died in Ike], Associated Press, ''Fox News'', October 5, 2008

[[Category:Natural Disasters]]

[[Category:Natural Disasters]]