Hurricane Ike

In 2008, Hurricane Ike battered Galveston and Houston with heavy rain and 110-mph winds, forcing about 1 million people to flee and leaving millions without electricity.

Officials later said deaths caused by Ike included more than 100 in the United States and about 75 in Haiti.

Picture: Reporters do interviews as waves from Hurricane Ike lash the seawall in Galveston, Texas.