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 ...

The devastating hurricane ... segment of the wall was completed on July 29, 1904, according to Visit Galveston. The initial segment was 3.3 miles long, 5 feet wide and 17 feet high.

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 ...

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 ...

The wounds Hurricane Ike inflicted on Galveston five years ago this month ... The downtown Strand, where a 17-foot storm surge swamped businesses, now rocks with restaurants, galleries and shops ...

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 ...

The storm is said to have made landfall as a category 4 hurricane with winds upwards of 145 mph. By the time all was said and done, a wall ... Galveston erected a seawall nearly 3 miles long and ...

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 ...