Hurricane Ike: A Photographic Account Presented by the Houston Chronicle Southeast New London

New London

Includes a DVD video

From its earliest days in the late-1800s to a post-World War II thriving hub of politics

ISBN: 9781597255448

and local residents who shared precious family photos

Hurricane Ike: A Photographic Account Presented by the Houston Chronicle Southeast New LondonHurricanes are familiar business for those living along the coast. But as Ike zeroed in on Southeast Texas, a feeling grew that this could be the big one. Suddenly more than a million people were called on to evacuate. And suddenly, Chronicle journalists had their hands full. The awesome damage some of it severely felt by Chronicle journalists who nevertheless remained on the job was surpassed only by the determination to overcome it. Ike was hardly