GALVESTON — For a century, this vulnerable barrier island’s famed Seawall has protected, comforted, enabled and endured. But the hopelessly romantic notion that the Seawall could stand tall ...

Devastated by an extreme hurricane in 1900, Galvestonians built a 17-foot-high sea wall and pumped in millions of cubic yards ...

GALVESTON, Texas — Galveston was known as the grandest city in Texas at the dawn of the 20th century. But with the arrival of the hurricane ... including the 17-foot seawall that was built ...

GALVESTON, Texas — It was called the grandest city in Texas at the dawn of the 20th century. But with the arrival of the hurricane on ... including the 17-foot seawall that was built after ...

Dubbed the "Ike Dike" after the hurricane that ravaged the Houston area in September, the 17-foot-high wall would straddle the narrow entrance to Galveston Bay with 1,000-foot-long floodgates ...

Tiny Galveston Island is threatened by Hurricane Rita much as it was by ... The city constructed a massive seawall, a 16-foot-thick, 17-foot-high structure to stand between it and the Gulf.

HOUSTON—A monster Hurricane Ike smashed ashore over Galveston Island early Saturday on its way to a punishing strike on the nation’s fourth-largest city, pushing a two-story-high wall of water ...

Alicia was a Category 3 hurricane when it hit Galveston, Texas with sustained winds of nearly 100 mph and gusts up to 127 mph. Seabrook endured a 12-foot storm surge and Houston received 11 inches ...

By midday Friday, before the first drops of rain even had begun to fall, waves fueled by Ike surged 15 feet above the 17-foot ... Galveston the wrath of Ike. Not all of the island is behind the ...

GALVESTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Hurricane Ike hit in 2008, with waves easily overtopping the 17-foot Galveston seawall and showing all of us in southeast Texas our own vulnerability. Coincidentally ...

GALVESTON, Texas — The coast here doesn’t have the whitest sand or the clearest water, but to millions of Texans and other visitors, this is the beach. And thanks to Hurricane Ike, it’s also ...