Texans brace themselves as Ike approaches
A monster-sized Hurricane Ike bore down on the Texas coast, threatening to rattle the sparkling skyscrapers of America’s fourth-largest city, shut down the heart of the US oil industry for days and obliterate waterfront towns already flooded with waist-high water.
Though nearly one million people evacuated coastal communities in the days leading up to the storm, tens of thousands ignored calls to leave and decided to tough it out.
